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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-5-DK
    Last Military Serial:43-48719 USAAF
    Construction Number:14535
    Last Civil Registration:N68CW
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47B-5-DK sn 43-48719 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-5-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    New construction number, 25980, assigned to the airframe.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-48719.

    To Red Dodge Aviation with new c/r N2768A.

    15 September 1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Fairbanks, Alaska

    16 June 1969

    To Delaware Airjet Inc, Denver, CO with new c/r N10HB.

    21 December 1971

    Civil registration, N10HB, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    To Sabourin Lake Airways with new c/r CF-BXY.

    23 July 1992

    To Sabourin Lake Airways with new c/r C-FBXY.

    April 1993


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 1993 photo taken at Red Lake

    18 October 1999

    To Culver L. Love, Houston, TX with new c/r N68CW.

    3 November 1999

    To Culver L. Love, Houston, TX with new c/r N68CW.

    15 November 1999

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68CW (DC3C, 25980) issued.

    15 November 2007

    To Aviation Business Corp, Saint Louis, MO keeping c/r N68CW.

    To Saint Louis Downtown Airport, East Saint Louis, IL.
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    Based at Bi-State Parks Airport, East Saint Louis, IL.
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    Placed on display.

    4 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: on display at St. Louis downtown airport, IL

    16 December 2013

    To unknown owner with c/r N68CW.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Bethesda, MD.

    14 March 2014

    To Airspeed Aircraft Llc, Bethesda, MD keeping c/r N68CW.

    1 January 2015

    Certificate of airworthiness for N68CW (DC3C, 25980) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2015

    To Culver L. Love, Houston, TX keeping c/r N68CW.

    20 January 2016

    To Airspeed Aircraft Llc, Potomac, MD keeping c/r N68CW.

    28 January 2019

    To Basler Turbo Conversions Llc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N68CW.

    26 July 2023


    Photographer: David Rickwood
    Notes: Seen in the Basler storage yard during EAA2023 at Oshkosh
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