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SKYTROOPER/42-68745
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Serial #: 42-68745
Construction #: 11672
Civil Registration:
  NC49543
  N705M
  N400S
Model(s):
  C-53D Skytrooper
Name: None
Status: Derelict
Last info: 2002
History:
Delivered to USAAF as 42-68745, April 10, 1943.
United Airlines, 1945-1955.
- Registered as NC49543.
- Reported purchased in 1949, possibly leased from Air Force, 1945-1949.
- Flew as Mainliner New Jersey, 1945-1949.
- Flew as Mainliner Youngstown, 1949-1955.
IBM Corporation, 1955.
- Registered as N705M.
Freeport Sulfur Co., 19??.
- Registered as N400S.
Pan Air Corporation, New Orleans, LA, 1965.
- Registered as N4003, 1967.
Removed from U.S. Civil Register, 1976.
Unknown Owner, Petal, MS, circa 1976-2002.
- Stored derlict sans engines.

Source(s):
Ruud Leeuw/Ruud's Classic Airliners
Photo Source(s):
Ruud Leeuw/Ruud's Classic Airliners
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