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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-3-384
    Last Military Serial:41-7687 USAAF
    Construction Number:03272
    Last Civil Registration:VH-ANN
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Airlines

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3-384.

    Civil registration NC1947 {1} reserved but not taken up.

    Circa 1940

    Converted to a C-49-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    6 November 1940

    To Douglas Aircraft Company Inc, Santa Monica, CA with c/r N1947 (DC3-G202A, 3272).

    31 January 1941

    Civil registration, N1947, cancelled.

    23 February 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 41-7687.

    5 February 1942

    Transferred to Air Transport Command.
    Amberley, Queensland.

    Circa April 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-7687.
    Allocated to the 4th Air Force.

    Circa August 1942

    Transferred to 21st Troop Carrier Squadron.

    1 September 1942

    Transferred to 5th Air Force, Brisbane.

    Circa December 1942

    Transferred to 46th Troop Carrier Squadron, 317th Troop Carrier Group.
    Operated using the radio call-sign *VHCDB*. Aircraft was named *Lady Eve*.

    4 December 1942

    Delivered to Commonwealth Aircraft Corportation for freighter conversion.

    24 June 1943

    Transferred to No 36 Squadron, R. A. A. F.

    23 February 1944

    Assigned civil registration: VH-CDB

    22 April 1944

    Assigned by Allied Directorate of Air Transport to Australian National Airways for operations under charter to the A.D.A.T.

    Operated by A.N.A. on night courier flights for the Allied Directorate of Air Transport.

    13 July 1944

    Damaged.
    Badly damaged whilst landing at Nadzab.

    25 January 1946

    To Australian National Airways Pty Ltd.
    Deemed to be surplus to USAAF requirements.

    25 January 1946

    Converted to a DC-3-384.
    Converted at A.N.A.s Sydney workshop to seat 24 passengers.

    25 May 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army Air Force.

    25 May 1946

    Assigned civil registration: VH-ANN

    20 July 1953

    Leased to Guinea Airways.

    2 August 1958

    Civil registration revised.
    Registration to VH-GAH.

    18 January 1960

    Guinea Airways Ltd renamed Airlines of South Australia.

    25 January 1960

    Civil registration revised.
    Reregistered as VH-ANN.

    From Circa July 1965 to September 1965

    Leased to Queensland Airlines.

    Circa April 1966

    Withdrawn from use.
    Adelaide (West Beach).

    Circa 1967

    Scrapped.

    Nose section retained by Darryl Gibbs of Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group, North Clyde, Victoria.


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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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