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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-2-112
    Last Military Serial:A30-9 RAAF
    Construction Number:01292
    Last Civil Registration:NC13782
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-2-112 sn A30-9 RAAF cn 0...
    Latest Owner or Location:Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria

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    Dates

    Event

    1934

    Constructed as a DC-2-112.
    Douglas DC-2-112 1292

    1934

    To Eastern Airlines with new c/r NC13782.

    February 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A30-9.
    Used callsign VHCRK.

    1946

    To The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

    To Marshall Airways.

    1982

    Restoration started.
    By a private syndicate at Melbourne Essondon - but Corrosion found in the centre-section left the aircraft permanently grounded.

    November 1984


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Essendon Airport, Melbourne November 1984. RAAF DC-2 A30-9 under restoration by a group headed by warbird pilot Jack McDonald. Acquired after the war by Marshall Airways, the aircraft had been in stored in the open weather around Sydney ever since. Sadly work stopped when corrosion found in the centre-section ended hopes of the DC-2 flying. It wasstored at Tyabb before donated in 2006 to the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne

    2004

    Noted at Tyabb airport, Victoria.

    2005

    To Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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    4 February 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Australian National Air Museum in Moorabbin, Melbourne

    To Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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