The date is a guess. Unknown photographer.

USAF 45-1116 C-47B-45-DK Skytrain converted to VC-47D in September 1954. to Khymer Air Force May 1973, to Royal Thai Air Force as L2-45/18 in September 1975. In July 2004 this C-47 was sent to Oshkosh for conversion by Basler but the airframe was rejected. Photographer: Arie de Winter

This Skytrain on display is actually 43-49507, the last C-47 in routine USAF use. Constructed as a C-47B-15-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, it was taken on by the USAAF as 43-49507 in November 1944 and postwar served with several different support units in Florida, Texas, Nebraska and Louisiana, having undergone modification to C-47D around 1947. It was flown to the museum in 1975 having accumulated 20,821 hours and in 1987 was painted in the marks of the 438th Troop Carrier Group, changed after 2010 to the current scheme representing a C-47A of the 439th TCG used to recover gliders on D-Day

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

ex RAF KP215

This aircraft was delivered to the USAAF in August 1944 as 43-16369

Photographer: Robert Burgess.

Delivered to the USAAF as C-47A 42-92104 in 1943. Modified to a C-47D in 1967. To the El Salvador Air Force in 1970. Stored close to the museum collection at Ilopango.

Last operational with 834TCW at Hurlburt Field, 43-49507 was the last C-47 in routine operation with the USAF, the aircraft was allocated to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson at the end of June 1975 and is displayed there at time of upload as 315213 a C-47A of the 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, which was used to recover gliders used in the invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

37 Mar 45: TOS USAAF as TC-47B. Assigned two units then 12/47: Converted to C-47D. Passed through 5 units then 7/49: Converted to VC-47D then through 7 units. 4/63: Loaned to U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Albuquerque, NM with c/r N710Z. 6/66: Air Force Logistics Command Headquarters, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, for ownership of loan to AEC. 12/66: SOC USAF, remained with AEC. 12/72: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Moore Air Base, Mission, TX. Also operated out of Tampico, Mexico. 5/80: Combat Air Museum, Forbes Field, Topeka, KS.

37 Mar 45: TOS USAAF as TC-47B. Assigned two units then 12/47: Converted to C-47D. Passed through 5 units then 7/49: Converted to VC-47D then through 7 units. 4/63: Loaned to U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Albuquerque, NM with c/r N710Z. 6/66: Air Force Logistics Command Headquarters, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, for ownership of loan to AEC. 12/66: SOC USAF, remained with AEC. 12/72: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Moore Air Base, Mission, TX. Also operated out of Tampico, Mexico. 5/80: Combat Air Museum, Forbes Field, Topeka, KS.

Built for the USAAF as 41-7782. Sold to Avensa in Venezuela in 1947 as YV-C-AVL and flew with them until 1974. To YV-C-CML and YV-184C with Comeravia and and finally with Rutaca as YV-214C. Withdrawn at Ciudad Bolivar by 1979 and used for spares, the fuselage remaining present there until at least 1995.

Operated by 56S