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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-30-DK
    Last Military Serial:476787 ALA
    Construction Number:16371
    Last Civil Registration:F-BAIF
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-30-DK sn 476787 ALA c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bevrijdende Vleugels Museum / Wings of Liberation Museum, Best, Noord-Brabant

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-47B-30-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 33119, assigned to the airframe.

    24 April 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76787.

    20 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 476787.

    April 1946

    To Air France with new c/r F-BAIF.

    1970

    To Fret Air keeping c/r F-BAIF.

    18 January 1973

    To Sa Uni Air International (Absorbee Par Aeronautique Charter Darta), Blagnac, Midi Pyrenees keeping c/r F-BAIF.
    Based at Toulouse Blagnac.

    3 September 1975


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Prestwick, Scotland

    8 November 1982

    Civil registration, F-BAIF, cancelled.

    Pylon mounted on WW.2 museum at Arlon, Belgium in D-Day color scheme.

    26 February 2002

    To Bevrijdende Vleugels Museum/Wings of Liberation Museum, Best, Noord-Brabant.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 2100847

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Best, Netherlands

    16 June 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Best, Netherlands

    13 August 2010

    Damaged.
    Badly damaged during a road transport. The aircraft was going to be used as a set piece in a musical. The fear is that it is total loss.

    Scrapped.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     DC-1, DC-2, DC-3 The First Seventy Years (ISBN 0-85130-332-3) by Jennifer Gradidge
    European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Thomas Delvoye
    Terry Fletcher
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