Dates

Event

Constructed as a C-47A-85-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

Circa 1943

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-15509.

28 May 1944

Transferred to Ninth Air Force, 37th troop carrier Squadron, 316th troop carrier group, Cottesmore-Station 489.

6 June 1944

Transported paratroopers of 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment and 456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, to a drop zone near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy, France during Mission Boston.

17 September 1944

Transported Paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Overasselt, South West of Nigmegen Netherlands during Operation Market Garden.

18 September 1944

Towed a Waco GC-4A Glider transporting men and materials for the 319th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands during Operation Market Garden. En Route to this Target, several British Bombers towing gliders passed underneath causing turbulence for this glider, The Tow rope broke and the glider was ditched in the North Sea close to an RAF Air Sea Rescue Launch 18 miles from Great Yarmouth.

24 September 1945

Ferry flight.
Returned to the United States.

11 October 1945

Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

10 December 1945

To Canadair Ltd with new c/r SE-BBH.

5 August 1946

To SAS keeping c/r SE-BBH.

9 November 1951

To unknown owner.
Sold.

17 August 1953

To Air Carrier Service Co, US with new c/r N9985F.

1953

To Piedmont Aviation Group with new c/r N51V.

To Charlotte Acft Corp, Charlotte, NC keeping c/r N51V.

30 April 1962

To Charlotte Aircraft Corporation keeping c/r N51V.

5 May 1962

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ejercito de Aire with s/n T.3-29.

17 May 1962

To Charlotte Acft Corp, Charlotte, NC with new c/r N51V.

26 October 1970

Civil registration, N51V, cancelled.

Markings Applied: 911-9

Markings Applied: 901-9

30 April 1980

To Aces High with new c/r G-BHUB.

4 September 1981

Photographer: Mike Powney
Notes: 1981 photo taken at Cranfield - the aircraft wears the false registration G-AGIV - for the TV Series - AIRLINE

To unknown owner with c/r G-BHUB (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 3, 19975).

Markings Applied: G-AGIV
Painted in false marks as G-AGIV for use in the UK TV series Airline.

To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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Markings Applied: 315509

10 November 2013

Photographer: John Bennett
Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

12 May 2015

Photographer: Fred Taylor
Notes: G-BHUB pictured in storage in Airspace at IWM Duxford, UK during the refurbishment of the American Air Museum.