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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-3-201
    Construction Number:02000
    Last Civil Registration:N18124
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian - National Air and Space Museum, Washington, District of Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as a DC-3-201.

    1937

    To Eastern Airlines with c/r NC18124.

    To Eastern Airlines with c/r N18124.

    25 November 1942

    To unknown owner with c/r N18124.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Washington, DC.

    12 October 1952

    Withdrawn from use.
    Taken out of service by Eastern Airlines after flying some 57,000 hours, equivalent to six-and-a-half years of non-stop flying.

    Transferred to a museum.

    31 December 1953

    Civil registration, N18124, cancelled.

    1 May 1963

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum.
    Presented by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

    1 July 1976

    Based at Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
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    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: Eastern Air Lines DC-3 displayed atNational Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
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