Aad wrote:
flightsimer wrote:
The museum I belong to is acquiring a C-47 that was manufactured in 1943. I am trying to find out info on it, but I can only find info from when it was used by the state of Florida for Mosquito spraying.
The aircraft is N836M with serial number 43-48716. I have a picture of a dataplate which says it was a VC-47D, which would mean it was a VIP aircraft, but the plate is not original and was etched by hand. I have not been in the plane yet to see if I can find anything inside. So really, I’m just curious if this plane made the Normandy flight or not. Is there any public database of planes that flew or would we have to contact the air force museum to try and find this info?
Tyler, here's some further info on your museum's aircraft:
C-47B 43-48716 1 TC Bear 806 BU 13Sep44 - ATC Dow 1379 BU 23Sep44 - 8 AF Europe 27Sep44 - 9 AF 75 TCS by Dec44 - Hunter 302 BU 04Jul45 - ATS San Bernardino 4126 BU 08Jul45 - ATC Mitchel 1102 BU 10Feb47 - Ireland MID 10Feb47 - HQC Dublin 1134 SAS 25Oct48 - 1130 SAG 12Dec49 - HQO Belgrade 1130 SAG 13Feb50 - Converted to VC-47B 14Apr50 - Converted to VC-47D 30Apr50 - AFE Tempelhof 7350 SS 11Sep59 - HQO Belgrade 1127 FAG 20Oct59 - AFE Athens 7206 SG 14Jan65 - 1127 FAG 20Feb65 - Belgrade 1127 FAG 21May65 - Belgrade Attache 01Sep65 - HQC Andrews 1001 CW 10Sep68 - 1 CW 01Jul69 - Transferred to US Army 27Apr72 - Transferred to Davis-Monthan MASDC 19Nov74 for storage (inventory code ZB016) - Transferred to United States Department of Health, Ft. Myers, FL 19Jun75 - Registered to Monroe County Mosquito Control District (MCMCD), Ft. Meyers, FL as N836M 28Jul75 - Converted to sprayer - Still operational as such by March 2011, based at Lehigh Acres, FL.
Most of this taken from "DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - The First Seventy Years" by J.M. Gradidge (2006) and "MASDC - Davis-Monthan AFB" by P. Blanchard, P. Chinnery and M. Swann (1983).
This shows that your aircraft is too new to have participated in the D-Day or Market Garden operations (delivered 13Sep44 and arrived in Europe 27Sep44), but in my country (Holland) the war raged on for another several months until May45, so it may have been involved in some other major operation during that time.
I note from FAA records that N836M was sold to the Vietnam Huey Pilots Association, Beaver Falls, PA on 28 Dec 2012. I assume they are closely related to your museum Air Heritage Inc. (as they are on the same address)?
Thanks for the info.
The Huey pilots Association is seperate from our museum, however, the president and founder of it is a member and they have their mailbox within our location because their hangar is within the gated part of the airport.
They are the actual owners of the plane for now and recieved it through trading huey parts for it. We are going to "trade" planes with them, though it will actually be a sale, so Air Heritage will become the official owners in the near future.
Right now, the tender is for us to recieve the C-47 by trading him our OV-1D Mohawk. The Mohawk is not flyable as it is now, it needs rewired, but still runs well and could become flyable with a little money. The last time we flew it was in the 2009 airshow season, however, we have been maintaining it still. He will be selling it to someone else who owns other OV-1's across the country and it will remain on our ramp for the rest of its future with this owner.
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