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    Airframe Family: Douglas B-23 Dragon
    Latest Model:B-23 Dragon
    Last Military Serial:39-0037 USAAF
    Construction Number:2723
    Last Civil Registration:N800N
    Compressed ID:Douglas B-23 sn 39-0037 USAAF cn 27...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-23.

    1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 39-0037.

    20 June 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 39-0037.

    24 January 1945

    To Reconstruction Finance Corp., Bush Field, GA.

    1947

    To John W. Galbreath with new c/r N41821.

    1954

    To Union Oil Co of California, Los Angeles CA with new c/r N41821.

    1955

    To Westinghouse Electric Corp keeping c/r N41821.

    1959

    To Westinghouse Electric Corp with new c/r N800L.

    From By 1963 to By 1964

    To A. J. Dewitt, Chattanooga, TN with new c/r N800N.

    1966

    To Medical Electronics Inc, Camp Hill, PA keeping c/r N800N.

    1968

    To John H. Logsden, New Orleans, LA, and Saint. Louis, MO keeping c/r N800N.

    From 1968 to 1972

    Operated by University of Chicago National Sciences Foundation.

    1977

    To Robert P. Schaefli, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N800N.

    From 1981 to By 1984

    To James W. Boy/Florida Aircraft Leasing, Fort Lauderdale FL keeping c/r N800N.

    1982

    Spotted at St. Louis in faded civil brown scheme with USAF insignia added to fuselage.

    May 1982

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1984

    Civil registration, N800N, cancelled.

    Circa 1985


    Photographer: National Museum of the USAF

    Markings Applied: 9-17B
    Displayed in USAAC markings.

    28 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 September 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 June 1990


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    Circa 1996

    Aircraft placed in storage awaiting restoration.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
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