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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-3A
    Last Military Serial:42-68687 USAAF
    Construction Number:02179
    Last Civil Registration:RP-C960
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-3A sn 42-68687 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Phillippine Airlines

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as a DC-3-314.
    Douglas DC-3-314 2179

    December 1939

    To Braniff Airways with new c/r NC21773.

    Circa 1940


    Photographer: Arkansas Aviation Historical Society

    Converted to a C-49H-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    17 September 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68687.

    Converted to a DC-3A.

    1944

    To Braniff International with new c/r NC21773.

    19 June 1959

    To Southern Airlines with new c/r N21773.

    To Southern Airlines with new c/r N91SA.

    29 April 1965

    To Overseas Central Enterprises Inc, San Francisco, CA/Fairways with new c/r N591S.

    2 June 1965

    Civil registration, N591S, cancelled.

    3 June 1965

    To Filipinas Orient with new c/r PI-C960.

    28 January 1975

    To Phillippine Airlines with new c/r RP-C960.

    September 1975


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: At Manila
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