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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-3C
    Last Military Serial:42-93577 USAAF
    Construction Number:13504
    Last Civil Registration:N3749Q
    Latest Owner or Location:Chickasha Aviation Center Inc, Chickasha, OK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-25-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    4 June 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93577.

    12 March 1946

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    Converted to a DC-3C.
    New construction number, 43082, assigned to the airframe.

    17 September 1946

    To The Hearst Corp, New York City, NY with new c/r NC34916.

    November 1953

    To Johns Manville Corporation keeping c/r NC34916.

    1955

    To Johns Manville Corporation with new c/r N20JM.

    18 March 1965

    To Johns Manville Corporation with new c/r N203M.

    10 February 1967

    To Millardair Ltd with new c/r CF-WCN.

    Circa 1972

    To Millardair Ltd with new c/r C-FWCN.

    1 April 1980

    To Lots O Luck Inc, Miami Beach, FL with new c/r N3749Q.

    30 March 1981

    To Palomar Investments Inc, Miami Beach, FL keeping c/r N3749Q.

    22 September 1982

    To H H. Delno, Mojave, CA keeping c/r N3749Q.

    14 January 1985

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3749Q (DC3C, 43082) issued.

    1 April 1988

    To Express Airways LD/Air Cargo America, Sanford keeping c/r N3749Q.

    16 October 1990


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1990 photo at Sanford, Florida

    8 March 1991


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In TMB.

    Impounded drug runner, San Andreas Island, Colombia.

    From 1994 to 2001

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Derelict at San Andreas Island, Colombia.

    Civil registration, N3749Q, cancelled.

    Circa 2001

    Scrapped.
    At San Andreas, Colombia.

    8 August 2002

    To Chickasha Aviation Center Inc, Chickasha, OK keeping c/r N3749Q.

    3 October 2006

    To Airplane Online Sales Inc, Ninnekah, OK keeping c/r N3749Q.

    17 February 2012

    Civil registration, N3749Q, cancelled.

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3749Q (DC3C, 43082) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2014

    To Chickasha Aviation Center Inc, Chickasha, OK keeping c/r N3749Q.
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