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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-47A-25-DK
    Last Military Serial:KG723 RAF
    Construction Number:13590
    Last Civil Registration:G-ALWC
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47A-25-DK sn KG723 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, Blagnac Airport (North East side), Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-25-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-93654.

    13 June 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KG723.

    30 March 1949

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    10 January 1950

    To Air Tech. Limited, Thames Airfield, Oxon with new c/r G-ALWC.

    August 1950

    To Air Survey Co. Ltd keeping c/r G-ALWC.

    Contracted to Fairey Aviation Ltd, Manchester for work on the airframe.
    Modified for aerial survey work with Fairey.

    August 1950

    Flown across the Atlantic to carry out its first surveys in British Guiana and Carribean.

    30 September 1982

    The aircraft was further modified for flight trials work.

    March 1984

    To Societe Nouvelle Generale Air Sce (SNGA)/Robert V Boname with new c/r F-GBOL.

    1 May 1984

    To Visionair (International Aviation) Limited, P O Box 952, London W4 3uw with new c/r G-ALWC (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 4, 13590).

    3 April 1989

    Civil registration, G-ALWC, cancelled.

    June 1995

    Placed on display with Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, Blagnac Airport (North East side), Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees.
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    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-25-DK, Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-25-DK, Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-25-DK, Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-25-DK, Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac

    31 March 2012


    Photographer: Alexander Todt
    Notes: Douglas C-47A-25-DK, Ailes Anciennes Museum Toulouse-Blagnac

    29 March 2017


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Toulouse - Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, France

    18 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Ailes Anciennes in Toulouse - Blagnac, France.
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     John Bennett
    Alexander Todt
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