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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:DC-3TP
    Last Military Serial:6868 SAAF
    Construction Number:16200
    Last Civil Registration:N467SP
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-3TP sn 6868 SAAF cn 1620...
    Latest Owner or Location:Samaritans Purse, Boone, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47B-30-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76616.

    New construction number, 32948, assigned to the airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n KN472 as a Dakota IV.

    8 October 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 6868.
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    Circa 1989

    Converted to a DC-3TP.

    To unknown owner with c/r N194RD.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZS-OIR.

    15 July 1998

    To Dodson Aviation Inc, Ottawa, KS with new c/r N194RD.

    17 August 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for N467SP (DC3, 32948) issued.

    29 August 2001

    To Samaritans Purse, Boone, NC with new c/r N467SP.

    26 March 2013

    Aircraft noted on apron of Eldoret Airport, Kenya, Africa in immaculate Samartitans Purse colours.

    26 May 2015


    Photographer: Mike Ward
    Notes: 2015 photo - at Eldoret, Kenya

    14 July 2015


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: N467SP Turbo DC-3-65TP. Operated by evangelical Christian relief group Samaritans Purse. Night-stopping at Glasgow en route from Africa back to USA.

    8 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N467SP (DC3, 32948) issued.
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