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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:C-47J
    Last Military Serial:50793 USN
    Construction Number:15138
    Last Civil Registration:N33
    Latest Owner or Location:Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, Minnesota ANG - 133rd AW, Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota

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    Constructed as a C-47B-15-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49322.

    New construction number, 26583, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 50793 as a R4D-6.

    Converted to a C-47J.

    To unknown owner with c/r N7072C.

    Circa 29 February 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N33 (DC3C-S1C3G, 26583) issued.

    29 February 1968

    To Department of Transportation, Washington, DC with new c/r N33.

    24 March 1982

    Civil registration, N33, cancelled.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to MN Ang (Saint Paul), 133 MXG/CC, Saint Paul, MN.

    April 1994

    Placed on display with Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, Minnesota ANG-133rd AW, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    6 May 2006


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: At first MNANG Museum Open Cockpit Day 2015. This event is no longer held by the museum because of heightened security concerns.

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force

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    Mike Henniger

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