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SKYTRAIN/42-24064

Serial #: 42-24064
Construction #: 9926
Civil Registration:
  NC74589
  N74589

Model(s):
  C-47A-40-DL Skytrain
Name: Placid Lassie
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2019

History:
Built by Douglas at Long Beach, CA.
Delivered to United States Army air Force as 42-24064.

• BOC: July 26, 1943.
• SOC: N/A.
• Assigned to 74th TCS, 434th TCG at RAF Aldermaston.
• Named Placid Lassie.
• Participated in D-Day operation.
• It also saw action at Arnhem and during the Battle of the Bulge.
• Damaged while parked by C-47A 42-100505 landing at Geinhausen (Y-67), Germany, April 3, 1945.
• Repaired within a week.
• Transferred to 81st Troop Carrier Squadron, Hunter, Savannah, GA, July 6, 1945.
• Stored at San Bernardino, CA, July 14, 1945.
• Transferred to RFC, November 19, 1945.

National Air Transportation Service, 19??

• Registered as NC74589.

West Coast Airlines, June 23, 1949.

• Assigned leet number '106'.

Air West, August 1967.
Aerodyne Corp, Renton, WA, June 18, 1968.

• Withdrawn from use, Renton, WA.
• Stored, May 1974 to January 1980.

Saber Aviation, May 1984.
Jurmie E Watkins Jr, August 6, 1992.
Dodson International Air, 19??.
Carolina Shuttle, Greensboro, NC, 1998

• Stored Covington, GA, 1998

Dixie Jet Services Inc, Newnan, GA, August 6, 2008.
Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT, June 3, 2010-2012.

• Restoration at Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington, IL July 2008.
• Operated by Tradewind Aviation.
• Flown as Union Jack Dak, 2010

Tunison Foundation Inc/Tradewind Aviation, Oxford, CT, December 2018-2019.

• flown as Placid Lassie.

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