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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:R4D-7
    Last Military Serial:99836 USN
    Construction Number:16458
    Last Civil Registration:SX-ECF
    Compressed ID:Douglas R4D-7 sn 99836 USN cn 16458...
    Latest Owner or Location:Ellinikon Airport, Athina (Athens), Attiki

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a TC-47B-35-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    Circa 8 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-76874.

    New construction number, 33206, assigned to the airframe.

    8 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 99836 as a R4D-7.

    Transferred to VR-1, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    November 1951

    Transferred to VR-24, Naples, Italy.

    June 1952

    Transferred to VR-25, Hendon, England.

    By August 1953

    Transferred to First Naval District, NAS Quonset Point, RI.

    September 1953

    To United States Navy/Civil Aviation Administration with new c/r N7071C.

    To Civil Aviation Administration with new c/r N29 {1}.

    To Civil Aviation Administration with new c/r N17 {3}.

    To Civil Aviation Administration with new c/r N29 {1}.

    11 January 1963

    To Department of The Navy of The National Defense, Washington, DC with new c/r N73 {2}.

    9 April 1965

    Civil registration, N73 {2}, cancelled.

    By 1965

    To Hellenic C. A. A with new c/r SX-ECF.

    To Ellinikon Airport, Athina (Athens), Attiki.
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    9 June 2014


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: Douglas C47 SX-ECF seen preserved outside the CAA HQ in Athens in June 2014

    2 April 2022


    Photographer: Chris Wood
    Notes: Now on display at the Hellenic Air Force Museum at Tatoi
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