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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:KN462 RAF
    Construction Number:16187
    Last Civil Registration:T9-ABC
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-30-DK sn KN462 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76603.

    New construction number, 32935, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KN462.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AMPT (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 4, 32935).

    From 4 March 1953 to 14 May 1953

    To Eagle Aviation Ltd with new c/r VP-YKM.

    To unknown owner with c/r VP-YKM.

    To unknown owner with c/r 7Q-YKM.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZS-EYO.

    Civil registration D-CDST reserved but not taken up.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-ODQL.

    27 September 1984

    To Sa Hemet Exploration, Colomiers with new c/r F-GILV.

    18 July 1990

    To Villa Gilbert, Marguerittes, Languedoc Roussillon keeping c/r F-GILV.
    Based at Nimes Courbessac.

    7 June 1991


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Faded AFRIQUE AIR SOLIDARITE-titles, at Nimes-Marguerittes

    1 February 1995

    Civil registration, F-GILV, cancelled.

    9 February 1995

    To Warmair Inc Trustee, Dover, DE with new c/r N48ME.

    4 October 2003


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Awaiting restauration at La Valetta, Malta

    To unknown owner with c/r 3C-JJN.

    To unknown owner with c/r T9-ABC.

    Transferred to a museum.

    Based at Malta Aviation Museum, Ta Qali, Malta.
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    3 March 2014


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: At the Malta Aviation Museum

    25 November 2014

    Civil registration, N48ME, cancelled.


    Photographer: Unknown


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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    Terry Fletcher
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