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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-6
    Last Military Serial:17278 USN
    Construction Number:14379
    Last Civil Registration:N40180
    Compressed ID:Douglas R4D-6 sn 17278 USN cn 14379...
    Latest Owner or Location:Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock International Airport, Lubbock, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-5-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 25824, assigned to the airframe.

    28 August 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48563.

    1 September 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 17278 as a R4D-6.

    July 1947

    To unknown owner with c/r N7634C.

    1 August 1966

    To Federal Aviation Administration with new c/r N40.


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: At Oakland

    29 August 1966

    To Department of Transportation, Fed Avn Admin, Washington, DC with new c/r N40180.

    26 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Las Vegas, Nevada

    23 December 1975

    To Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Admin, Washington, DC keeping c/r N40180.

    Withdrawn from use.

    10 September 1982

    Civil registration, N40180, cancelled.
    Cancelled.

    By 1990

    To Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    18 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    To Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock International Airport, Lubbock, TX.
    View the Location Dossier

    23 October 2009


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock, TX.
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     Aviation Museums and Collections of North America (2nd Edition 2011) by Bob Ogden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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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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