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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-1-109
    Construction Number:01137
    Last Civil Registration:EC-AAE
    Latest Owner or Location:Iberia

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    Dates

    Event

    1933

    Constructed as a DC-1-109.
    The prototype DC-1

    1 July 1933

    To Transcontinental Western Air with c/r N223Y.

    1 July 1933

    First flight.
    At Clover Field. Texas.

    To Transcontinental Western Air with c/r N223Y.

    Circa 1933


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive / Greg Wasmann
    Notes: At Grand Central Terminal, Glendale, California

    1934


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Municipal Airport - The only Douglas DC-1 ever built

    Circa 25 June 1938

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-AFIF (DOUGLAS DC-1, 1137) issued.

    From 25 June 1938 to October 1938

    To Arthur Patrick Hastings Forbes, County Longford, Eire with c/r G-AFIF.

    November 1938

    To LAPE, Spanish Postal Airlines with c/r EC-AGN {1}.

    February 1940

    To SAETA-Sociedad Anonima Espanola de Transporte Aereo with c/r EC-AAE.

    11 April 1940

    To TAE-Trafico Aereo Espanol.

    7 June 1940

    To Iberia.

    4 October 1940

    Written off.
    At Malaga, Spain.


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