C-47 SKYTRAIN/43-49870
Serial #: 43-49870
Construction #: 15686/27131
Civil Registration:
VH-CIN
Construction #: 15686/27131
Civil Registration:
VH-CIN
Model(s):
C-47B-20-DK Skytrain
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2020
C-47B-20-DK Skytrain
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2020
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-49870.
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-49870.
- BOC: January 12, 1945
- BOC: February 19, 1945
- SOC: October 1981
- Assigned to the 3 AD, February 19, 1945.
- Transferred to 37 Sqn RAAF coded OM-N, registered as VH-CIN 28Feb45.
- Carried Prime Minister Curtin's body from Canberra to Perth for funeral 1945.
- Transferred to DAP RAAF 06Aug46.
- Transferred to 1 AD RAAF 19Jan47.
- Transferred to 38 Sqn RAAF 19Jan47.
- Transferred to AD 06Jun47.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 03Jul47.
- Transferred to DAP RAAF 22Jan48.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 06May48.
- Transferred to DAP RAAF 08Sep49.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 04Aug50.
- Transferred to 90 Wing 02Feb51.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 04Nov51.
- Transferred to DAP RAAF 28Nov51
- Transferred to 90 Wing 20May52.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 05Dec52.
- Transferred to 2 AD RAAF 17Aug53.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 29Aug53.
- Transferred to 2 AD RAAF 26Mar54.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 27Mar56.
- Damaged when struck mast of SS Hexam Bank near Newcastle 15May56.
- Transferred to 2 AD RAAF 28Aug56.
- Transferred to DAP RAAF 21Jan57.
- Transferred to 1 AD RAAF 03Aug57.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 05Aug57.
- Transferred to 2 AD RAAF 02Feb62.
- Transferred to 86 Wing 14Feb62
- Transferred to A RW 04Sep62.
- Transferred to 86 Wing RAAF 29Mar63.
- Transferred to 2 Sqn RAAF Malaysia 01Jul63.
- Transferred to ARW RAAF 12Sep65.
- Transferred to 2 AD RAAF 21Jan67.
- Transferred to 10 MR Sqn RAAF 28Jun67.
- Transferred to Butterworth STF RAAF, March 05, 1968.
- Transferred to Fairbain AFB, June 26, 1980.
- Flown by RAAF on behalf of the Australian War Memorial.
- Retired and placed in storage at Treloar Centre, August 1997.
Photo Source(s):
Ian McDonell
Research Assistance:
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Ian McDonell
Research Assistance:
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