Aircraft Photo of 42-23769 / 223769 | Douglas C-47A Skytrain | USA - Air Force | AirHistory.net #514569
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:42-23769
Alternate Serial:223769
Military Code:45
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):9631
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
Location
Location:In Flight
Region / Country:Missouri, United States
 
Photo Date:September 1944 to January 1945
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 514569
Photo Comment

C-47 type training based at Sedalia AAF, now Whiteman AFB. Lt Kirkpatrick's logbook shows he made 48 flights on the type here in four months. He also flew the CG-4 assault glider a couple of times. He had received multi-engine training on the Beech AT-10 Wichita at Freeman AAF, Seymour, Indiana. 42-23769 to Sabena after the war as a DC-3C, c/n 43089, OO-AUY. Photo by: James Kirkpatrick / Smithsonian Institution

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