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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota IV
    Last Military Serial:477232 ALA
    Construction Number:16816
    Last Civil Registration:N75WS
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota IV sn 477232 ALA cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ilford-Riverton Airways

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-40-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-77232.

    New construction number, 33564, assigned to the airframe.

    June 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KP262 as a Dakota IV.

    To unknown owner with c/r H-716.

    From 11 January 1954 to 22 March 1954

    To Field Aircraft Services, Croydon Airport with new c/r G-ANLL.

    16 September 1955

    To Societe Aigle Azur Indochine, Hanoi with new c/r F-OAPP (Dc 3c-s1c3g, 44-77232).
    Based at Saigon.

    20 December 1955

    Civil registration, F-OAPP, cancelled.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 477232.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-SCHM {2}.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-RAVB {3}.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-RAJO.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-WSGP.

    11 August 1972

    To Korastinsky Robert, Frankfort with new c/r N18259 (C-47, 44-77232).

    21 February 1973

    Civil registration, N18259, cancelled.

    30 May 1973

    To Ilford-Riverton Airways with new c/r CF-IAZ.

    31 May 1973


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: CF-IAZ at Winnipeg on 31May73 - Having been imported ex-N18259 a month earlier, this DC-3 is shown one day after it was registered to Ilford-Riverton Airways. Soon after, it moved on to Ontario Central Airlines and went back south in 1979

    9 August 1977

    To unknown owner with c/r N75WS.

    16 July 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N75WS (DC3C, 33564) issued.

    31 March 2004

    To unknown owner with c/r N75WS.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Miami, FL.

    19 October 2012

    Civil registration, N75WS, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Miami, FL.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N75WS (DC3C, 33564) issued.

    1 January 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N75WS.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Miami, FL.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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