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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota III
    Last Military Serial:CN-ALJ RMoAF
    Construction Number:15635
    Last Civil Registration:N54602
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota III sn CN-ALJ RMoAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Warplane Museum, Geneseo, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-20-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-49819.

    1956


    Photographer: Douglas Campbell
    Notes: G AMJX (later to become N54602) at Turnhouse (Edinburgh) airport, Scotland, 1956.

    New construction number, 27080, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KN214 as a Dakota III.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AMJX (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 3, 27080).

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Moroccan Air Force with s/n CN-ALJ and operated with these markings: 49819.

    23 September 1978


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1978 photo taken at Exeter Airport

    12 February 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54602 (DC3, 43-49819) issued.

    4 April 1984

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Anaheim, CA with new c/r N54602.

    Based at Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Anaheim, CA.
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    From Unknown to July 2002

    To Empire State Aerosciences Museum, Schenectady County Airport, Schenectady, NY.
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    4 April 1984

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Long Beach, CA keeping c/r N54602.

    July 2002

    Loaned to 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum, Geneseo, NY.
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    To National Warplane Museum, Geneseo, NY.
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    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54602 (DC3, 43-49819) issued.

    12 July 2013


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Geneseo Airshow, Geneseo NY
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
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    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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