Delivered to the USAAF as 42-92597 then transferred to the RAF as KG385 and the SAAF as 6828 in 1944. Converted to a C-47TP in 1999. Fitted out as an Electronic Warfare platform serving with the SAAF's Electronic Warfare Centre whose badge is on the tail, flown by 35 Sqd crews. Stored at Snake Valley, Gauteng Jan 2002 and Ysterplaat from Sep 2006. Photographer unknown

Delivered to the USAAF September 1945, to the RAF as FL563 December 1943 and the SAAF October 1945 serving at AFB Ysterplaat with the station flight and 25 Sqd for a long time as the Dazzle Dak target tug. Converted to C-47TP and operated by 35 Squadron from july 1998. Suffered a runway excursion at Mthatha in November 2012. Photographer unknown

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-68819. Post-war conversion to DC-3A and to Svenska Kyrkans Missionsstyrelse as SE-APG Feb 1946 for missionary flights, later Nordiskt Missionsflyg. To AB Aerotransport July 19848, SAS from July 1949. To SNCSAO as F-BEIS January 1951, to French Air Force as 68819, to Brabier as F-BRGI November 1972, to Yugoslav Air Force as 71237, to YU-ABW November 1979. Then it gets interesting. Sold to Atlas Aircraft in Miami, FL as N8071Z and stored at Riem. In March 1981 she was registered 9Q-CYI and flown to South Africa bypassing the UN embargo on the country and given the SAAF serial 6875. This is the second 6875, the first was written off in 1964. Later converted to Turbo Dak. Photographer unknown

Operating joy flights during the 40 Year Liberation Day Memorial Air Display

Painted to represent an AC-47 'Spooky', in actuality the 37th Troop Carrier Squadron flew this Skytrain in WWII and airdropped 82nd Airborne Division soldiers during the parachute assaults of the Normandy invasion and also in Operation Market Garden. It served in another famous campaign post-war when it was part of the Berlin Airlift. Then taken on charge by the Turk Hava Kuvvetleri, it returned to the US in 1954 and joined the Indiana ANG, later transferred to the Ohio ANG. By 1979 it was on display here at Hurlburt in camouflage, as per my photo here for comparison

Showing the incorrect '42' prefix applied when first placed on display to represent an AC-47

Operating joy flights during the Memorial Air Display 1945-1985

The fifth of May Memorial Air Display 1945-1985

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Ex-US Navy 99857, 44-77035. Later N99857, N27TN. WFU and stored at Wasilla Municipal, AK

Ex-NX23SA, N4700C, N700CC, N2001, N44783, NC44783, 41-20133 (C-53). Broken up 2008

This beautiful aircraft visited the Netherlands on its world tour during the 80th anniversary celebrations of the end of WWII. It is seen here taking off to take part in the May 5th 'liberation day' events.

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Commemorative Air Force R4D on a long journey to Europe called "From Navy to Victory". BuNo 50783 is clearly visible in the tail, but its official civil registration N151ZE is written under the horizontal stabilizer in a very small font. The Dak is here seen flying to Eindhoven airport, buzzing the small, village of Oisterwijk.

Commemorative Air Force R4D on a long journey to Europe called "From Navy to Victory" . Serial NAVY50783 is clearly visible in the tail, but its official civil registration N151ZE is written under the horizontal stabilizer in a very small font.

Reported as ex CC-CBR, wearing the fake serial '960'. Displayed on the Air Force base here with Grupo 10 since the mid 1980s, the aircraft was refurbished and repainted c2009 and is still present at time of upload. The real 960 (c/n 20750) still exists and is used as the El Avión Cafetería in Chaitén around 800 miles south of Santiago.