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    Airframe Family: Boeing B247 / C-73
    Latest Model:247D
    Last Military Serial:42-57208 USAAF
    Construction Number:1689
    Last Civil Registration:HP-277
    Compressed ID:Boeing 247D sn 42-57208 USAAF cn 16...
    Latest Owner or Location:Colomial Piers Inc, Colonial Beach, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 247.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC13308.

    Converted to a 247D.

    To unknown owner with c/r NC13308.

    1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-57208 as a C-73-BO.

    Redesignated as 247D.

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-DIJ.

    To unknown owner with c/r N76390.

    9 December 1958

    To Colomial Piers Inc, Colonial Beach, VA with new c/r N91R.

    Circa 1959


    Photographer: Malcolm Gougan Collection

    14 September 1971

    Civil registration, N91R, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r HP-277.
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