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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-47B-45-DK
    Last Military Serial:45-0894 USAAF
    Construction Number:16897
    Last Civil Registration:N374AS
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-45-DK sn 45-0894 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-45-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 45-0894.

    New construction number, 34154, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1955

    Markings Applied: 0-50894

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CB398.

    To Jack Rhodes Aircraft Sales, Seymour, IN with new c/r N374AS.

    1 April 1996

    Civil registration, N374AS, cancelled.

    By 28 August 2000

    To K-Tech, Tucson, AZ.

    15 April 2009


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: Stored with Air restoration and Marketing (formerly Dross Metals) at Tucson, Arizona

    By 2010

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    Withdrawn from use.

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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