Aircraft Photo of N37529 | Douglas C-47A Skytrain | AirHistory.net #501164
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:N37529
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-3
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota)
Aircraft Version:Douglas C-47A Skytrain
C/n (msn):13378
Location
City / Airport:Tucson - Marana RegionalMap
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Airport Codes:ICAO: -   IATA: AVW   Local: AVQ   Other: -
 
Photo Date:10 May 1981
Photo by:Roger Syratt
Photo ID: 501164
Photo Comment

Photographed at what was then known as Avra Valley Airport, since renamed Marana Regional Airport. After wartime service with the RAF as KG619 the aircraft passed to the Spanish Air Force as T.3-2 until being sold off as G-BGCE in 1978, and then going to the USA as N37529. In the 1980s it was of a number of old propliners based at McAllen, TX., and used to smuggle consumer goods into Mexico until its luck ran out and it was impounded there in January 1990. It was last reported as a derelict hulk at Oaxaca - Xoxocotlan International Airport registered as XA-ION.

This photo is copyright © Roger Syratt, and may not be used or published in any way without permission.

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