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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:AC-47
    Last Military Serial:42-47375 USAAF
    Construction Number:07317
    Last Civil Registration:N74KW
    Compressed ID:Douglas AC-47 sn 42-47375 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jhoti P. Chatlani, McAllen, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-53-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.
    Douglas C-53-DO 7317

    29 June 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-47375.

    February 1945

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r NC15582.

    Converted to an AC-47.

    May 1953

    To SAHSA Honduras with new c/r XH-SAD {2}.

    June 1955

    To Lake Central Airlines with new c/r N21712.

    1959


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    3 May 1967

    To Air Florida Sunshine (Florida Airways International) keeping c/r N21712.

    3 May 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N74KW (DC3A, 7317) issued.

    30 October 1968

    To Southeast Airlines Inc keeping c/r N21712.

    Circa 1969


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I am on the left. I worked maintenance at Southeast Airlines. Another mechanic took this shot while working on N21712, one of two DC-3s they had then in 1969 or 70. Later I flew a ferry flight in this a/c as co-pilot, my first DC-3 flight.

    10 December 1970

    To Island Flying Service of America keeping c/r N21712.

    1974

    To Air Florida Sunshine with new c/r N74KW.

    1974


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Miami, Florida

    6 October 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall

    May 1981


    Photographer: Richard Vandervord
    Notes: Las Vegas - McCarran

    9 September 1987

    To Jhoti P. Chatlani, McAllen, TX keeping c/r N74KW.

    4 September 1988


    Photographer: Paul J. Hooper.
    Notes: Photographed at McAllen, TX.

    19 November 1997

    To Jhoti P. Chatlani, McAllen, TX keeping c/r N74KW.

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N74KW (DC3A, 7317) issued.

    30 September 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for N74KW expired.

    13 July 2017

    Civil registration, N74KW, cancelled.


    Photographer: Unknown
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