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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:VC-117D
    Last Military Serial:39097 USN
    Construction Number:32793
    Last Civil Registration:N29TN
    Compressed ID:Douglas VC-117D sn 39097 USN cn 327...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R4D-8.

    New construction number, 43302, assigned to the airframe.

    31 December 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39097.

    Redesignated as VC-117D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39097.

    By October 1969

    Operated by US Attache, Norway.

    18 April 1978

    To Lee County Health Department, Fort. Myers, FL with new c/r N851M.

    29 September 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo taken at Lehigh Acres, Buckingham Fields, Florida

    11 September 1996

    To Airpower Inc, Lakeport, CA keeping c/r N851M.

    27 September 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for N29TN (SUPER R4D-8Z, 43302) issued.

    14 September 1999

    To Airpower Inc, Lakeport, CA keeping c/r N851M.

    23 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Ted Stevens Airport, Anchorage

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 39097.

    To unknown owner with c/r N851M.

    To Airpower Inc, Lampson Airport, Lakeport/Kelseyville, CA.
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    27 May 2009

    To May Investments Llc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N29TN.

    Operated by TransNorthern.

    Based at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, AK.
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    2020

    Fast forward to Minute 8.00 for Beach landing.

    2 October 2021

    Civil registration, N29TN, cancelled.

    20 July 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N29TN with fading Trans Northern titles and outer wings and tail removed at Anchorage Int., AK
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    YouTube
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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