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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:921 RMoAF
    Construction Number:11903
    Last Civil Registration:N9845A
    Compressed ID:Douglas Dakota III sn 921 RMoAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:94th Aero Squadron a restaurant, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-1-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92136.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FL544 as a Dakota III.

    20 December 1943

    To British Overseas Airways Corporation with new c/r G-AGIP (DOUGLAS C47 DAKOTA 3, 11903).

    From 17 August 1946 to 9 May 1961

    To British European Airways Corporation keeping c/r G-AGIP.

    From 10 May 1961 to 12 August 1963

    To Cambrian Airways, Cardiff Airport, Wales keeping c/r G-AGIP.

    Circa 1962


    Photographer: Colin Smith
    Notes: At Guernsey Airport

    By 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Moroccan Air Force with s/n 921 and operated with these markings: 92136.
    Wore dual civil registration CN-ALI.

    26 February 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N54608 (DC3, 42-92136) issued.

    24 June 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Later with the Florida Military Aviation Museum at Clearwater, Florida this DC-3 was present at Blackbushe in the Summer of 1979

    21 July 1979


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Luton Airport, UK

    4 April 1984

    To Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Anaheim, CA with new c/r N54608.

    Civil registration N9845A reserved but not taken up.

    Based at Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation (MARC)/David Tallichet, Anaheim, CA.
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    To Saint Petersburg Clearwater International Airport, Saint Petersburg, FL.
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    February 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport, FL

    To 94th Aero Squadron A restaurant, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
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    Circa 2006

    Damaged by hurricane and dismantled.

    4 May 2011

    Civil registration, N54608, cancelled.

    Markings Applied: 315136

    Scrapped.
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