List of surviving Douglas C-47 Skytrains

This is a list of surviving Douglas C-47 Skytrain and variant aircraft, including the C-53 Skytrooper, C-117 and R4D.

Argentina

Douglas DC-3 TA-05

Airworthy

LV-BEH, C-47B-15-DK c/n 15349/26794 - ex-Argentine Air Force TC-35, ex-United States Army Air Force 43-49533.[1]

On display

TA-05, ex-Argentine Air Force, at Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, Morón, Buenos Aires. Used in flights to Antarctica.
C-47A-30-DK c/n 25455/14010, ex-Argentine Air Force T-101, at Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina. Displayed representing presidential transport LQ-GJT Independencia.[2][3]

Australia

Historical Aircraft Restoration Society C-47B Dakota VH-EAF

ex-Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) P2-003 – C-47B on outdoor display at a pub in the town of Moree, New South Wales[4]
ex-Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) A65-64 – C-47B on display mounted on poles outside the RSL Club premises at Mulwala in New South Wales[5]
ex-RAAF A65-71 – C-47B in storage at the Treloar Technology Centre of the Australian War Memorial in Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory.[6]
ex-RAAF A65-78 – C-47B in storage at the RAAF Museum, located at RAAF Williams in Point Cook, Victoria[7]
ex-RAAF A65-94, civil registration VH-EAF – C-47B airworthy in the collection of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society at the Illawarra Regional Airport in New South Wales; in colours it wore while in service with the Aircraft Research and Development Unit RAAF.[8]
ex-RAAF A65-95, civil registration VH-EAE – C-47B airworthy in the collection of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society at the Illawarra Regional Airport in New South Wales; in colours it wore while in service with the RAAF during World War II.[8]
ex-RAAF A65-114 – C-47B on static display at the South Australian Aviation Museum in Port Adelaide, South Australia.[9][10]
ex-RAAF A65-124 – C-47B on static display at the Aviation Heritage Museum in Bull Creek, Western Australia.[11]
ex-Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Fleet Air Arm N2-43 – C-47A modified with extended nose to house a radar system from a de Havilland Sea Venom; on static display in the Fleet Air Arm Museum at naval air station HMAS Albatross near Nowra, New South Wales.[12][13][14]
ex-Mcdonalds plane in Adelaide, Australia; Customers could hold parties or eat there. It was removed and transported to a private location in the late 1990s. It is being repaired/restored and could be used for the same thing again.[15]

Canada

41-18471/CF-IAE – C-47DL/DC-3 on static display at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.[16]
42-92419/TBD – C-47A/TBD on static display at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Astra, Ontario.[17][18]
42-92489/FZ692 – C-47A/Dakota III under restoration to airworthy at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario.[19][20]
42-108960 – C-47A on static display at the Aero Space Museum of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta.[21][22]

France

42-100825 – C-47A on static display at the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Manche. It is painted as 43-15159 The Argonia.[23][24]
43-15073 – C-47A on static display at the Merville Gun Battery in Merville-Franceville-Plage, Normandy. Saved from scrappers in Bosnia, she is now completely restored in her 1944 configuration.

Germany

Ex-RAAF C-47B A65-69 at Bundeswehr Museum of Military History, in the Berlin suburb of Gatow

43-49728/14+01 – C-47B/Dakota IV on static display at the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim in Oberschleißheim, Bavaria.[25][26]
ex-Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) A65-69 – C-47B on static display at the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr – Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow (Bundeswehr Museum of Military History – Berlin-Gatow Airfield) at the former RAF Gatow air base in Berlin; presented by the Australian government in 1980 to commemorate RAAF aircrews' role in the Berlin Airlift.[27][28]

Greece

unknown – C-47B on static display at the Hellenic Air Force Museum located at Dekelia Air Base in Acharnes.[29]

Hungary

43-16026 – C-47A (or Lisunov Li-2T) as part of Malev Hungarian Airlines, used in various airshows.[30]

India

VP 905 - DC-3 part of Indian Air Force's vintage squadron.[31][32]

Italy

43-48983 – C-47B on static display at Volandia in Somma Lombardo, Varese.[33]
MM61776 - C47B on static display at Italian Air Force Museum, Vigna di Valle [34]

Malta

43-15762 – C-47A in storage at the Malta Aviation Museum in Ta' Qali, Attard.[35][36]
44-76603 – C-47B under restoration at the Malta Aviation Museum in Ta' Qali, Attard.[35][37]

Netherlands

43-15652 / T-443 – C-47B on display at the Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg.[38]
44-19434 / 42-100971 - C47A in operation, part of the Dutch Dakota Association fleet.[39]

New Zealand

ex-US Navy BuNo 17221 – LC-47H on static display in the collection of the Ferrymead Aeronautical Society at the Ferrymead Heritage Park in Christchurch.[40]
NZ3551 – C-47B on static display at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Christchurch, Canterbury.[41]

South Africa

35 Squadron SAAF continues to operate a number of C-47TP variants in maritime roles.[42][43]

United Kingdom

44-76384/KN353 – C-47B/Dakota IV on display in taxiable condition at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington, York.[44][45]
44-77003/KN645 – C-47B/Dakota IV on static display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Cosford, Shropshire.[46][47]
unknown – on display as a gate guardian at RAF Brize Norton; painted as FZ262, a participant in Operation Market Garden in World War II.[48]
ZA947 – C-47A/Dakota 3 During the Second World War this aircraft served entirely in Canada. It is airworthy and forms part of the BBMF. It was originally given the serial number KG661 and served with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, but in the late 1970s it was realized that the serial number KG661 had, in fact, previously been allocated to another Dakota which had been destroyed in an accident. The error was reported and in July 1979 the Dakota was allocated the ‘modern’ serial ZA947, which explains why this serial does not match the age or era of the aircraft.[49]

United States

Airworthy

C-47

42-32832 Sky King – Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas.[50][51]

C-47A/Dakota III

Placid Lassie and That's All, Brother at Waterbury-Oxford Airport.

42-23518 Old Number 30 – Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force in Mesa, Arizona.[52][53][54][55]
42-23668 – Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.[56][57]
42-92277/FL633 – WWII Airborne Demonstration Team in Frederick, Oklahoma.[58][59][60]
42-24064 Placid Lassie - Tunison Foundation in Oxford, Connecticut.[61]
42-92847 That's All, Brother – restored to airworthy status at Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; for the Commemorative Air Force. This airframe was the lead aircraft for the D-Day invasion and took its first flight in many years on 31 January 2018.[62][63][64][65]
42-24320 Miss Montana – Museum of Mountain Flying near Missoula International Airport, Montana. She did not fly during World War II, as the war ended prior to her being completed in 1944, but did carry the firefighters that fought the Mann Gulch Fire in Helena National Forest in 1949. Later crashed but was later repaired and taken to the museum.[66][67]
42-100591 Tico Belle – Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, Florida.[68][69]
42-100931 Flagship Orange County – Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California. This airframe is painted in a civilian scheme.[70][71]
43-15211 – Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida.[72][73][74]
43-15679 – War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. This airframe is painted in a civilian scheme.[75][76][77]
43-30652 Whiskey 7 – National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York. This aircraft was a lead plane in Mission Boston during the airborne invasion of Normandy during D-Day.[78][79][80]
43-30665 Miss Virginia - Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia.[81]
43-48080 – Avionics Engineering Center of Ohio University in Albany, Ohio. It is painted in a civilian scheme.[82][83][84]

C-47B/R4D-6

43-16340 - Historic Flight Foundation at Paine Field in Mukilteo, Washington. Painted in a PAA-Pan American Airways System livery.[85]
43-48608 Betsy's Biscuit Bomber – Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, California.[86][87]
50783 Ready 4 Duty – Dallas/Fort Worth Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in Lancaster, Texas.[88][89][90]
50819 – Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania.[91][92][93]
44-76423 What's Up Doc? – Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California.[94][95]
44-76717 Second Chance – American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, New York.[96][97][98]
44-76791 Willa Dean – Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California.[99][100]

TC-47D

44-76716 – Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan. Painted and renamed in 2018 to match Hairless Joe, a C-47 flown by Richard E. Cole. [101][102][103][104]

TC-47K

99854 Black Sparrow – Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[105] Formerly operated by the Headquarters Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force.[106][107]

C-53D

42-47371 The Spirit of Benovia - JM Air LLC, based at Marana Northwest Regional Airport in Marana, Arizona. Painted in a Civil Air Transport livery.[108]
42-68830 D-Day Doll – Inland Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in Riverside, California.[109][110]

On display (complete airframes)

Spirit of Santa Monica with statue of Douglas Aircraft founder Donald W. Douglas Sr. at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA

C-47 on display at the National World War II Museum

C-47

41-7723 – Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.[111]
41-18482 – Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry in Wasilla, Alaska.[112]
41-20107 Spirit of Santa Monica - Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California[113].

C-47A/R4D-5

42-92841 Turf and Sport Special – Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, Delaware.[114]
42-92990 Okie Dokie – Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center in Fairfield, California.[115][116]
42-93096 – National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.[117]
42-100486 Cheeky Charlie – Pacific Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.[118][119]
42-100828 – Fort Campbell near Clarksville, Tennessee. This airframe was previously operated by the Air Acres Museum in Woodstock, Georgia.[120]

C-47A 42-100857 on display at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

42-100857 - 176 WG, Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. (marked as 0315497)[121]
42-108798/17096 Brass Hat – Don F. Pratt Museum at Fort Campbell near Clarksville, Tennessee.[122][123]
42-108808/17106 – Dyess Linear Air Park at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas.[124]
43-15510 – Air Commando Park at Hurlburt Field in Mary Esther, Florida. This airframe is painted as an AC-47D.[125][126][127]
43-15635 Old 635 – Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri.[128][129]
43-15977 Seventh Heaven – Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California.[130][131]
43-16130 Hi Honey! – Barksdale Global Power Museum in Bossier City, Louisiana.[132][133]
43-48098 – Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.[134]
Bureau Number 12418 R4D-5L Que Sera Sera - National Naval Aviation Museum, located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.[135]

VC-47A

42-93800 – Eagles Air Museum in West Fargo, North Dakota.[136][137]

C-47B

43-48362 – Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida.[138]
43-48415 – Kelly Field Annex in San Antonio, Texas.[139]
43-48459 – Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana, Ohio.[140][141]
43-49206 – Altus Air Force Base near Altus, Oklahoma.[142]
43-49270 – Grissom Air Museum in Peru, Indiana.[143][144]
43-49355 – Charleston Air Force Base Air Park in North Charleston, South Carolina.[145]
43-49442 – Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia.[146]
43-49526 – Fairchild Air Force Base near Airway Heights, Washington.[147]
45-0928 – MAPS Air Museum in North Canton, Ohio.[148][149]

R4D-6

A C-47 Skytrain at Tinker AFB

17278 – Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas.[150][151]
50761 – Charles B. Hall Airpark at Tinker Air Force Base near Midwest City, Oklahoma.[152][153]
50779 – Gunter Annex in Montgomery, Alabama.[154]
50793 – Minnesota Air National Guard Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota.[155][156]
150190 – Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station near Niagara Falls, New York. This airframe was previously on display at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia.[157]

VC-47D

43-49281 – Hill Aerospace Museum in Roy, Utah.[158]
44-76326 – Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.[159][160]
44-76582 Kilroy is Here – Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas.[161]

C-47D

43-49507 – National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.[162] It is painted as C-47A, 43-15174; an airframe that crashed in Germany on 24 April 1945.[163][164]

TC-47D

44-76502 – McChord Air Museum in Lakewood, Washington.[165]

C-47H

42-93127 – South Dakota Air and Space Museum in Box Elder, South Dakota.[166]

C-47K

44-76486 – Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida. This airframe is painted as an AC-47.[167][168]

C-53D

42-68835 – Aerospace Museum of California in McClellan, California.[169][170]

C-117C

42-108866 – Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. This airframe was previously on display at the Pate Museum of Transportation in Cresson, Texas.[171]

C-117D

50826 – Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.[172][173]

On display (partial airframes)

C-47A

43-15912 (Cockpit Only) – San Diego Air & Space Museum in San Diego, California.[174][175]

Under restoration or in storage (complete airframes)

C-47A/Dakota III

KG587 – under restoration to airworthy at Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon.[176][177][178][179]

C-47B

43-16141 – in storage at Burlington Air National Guard Base in South Burlington, Vermont.[180][181]

C-47B 44-76457 at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, New York.

44-76457 – under restoration at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, New York.[182]

C-53D

41-20095 Beach City Baby – under restoration to airworthy with Vintage Wings, Inc. in Beach City, Ohio. This airframe was previously used by the state of Ohio as the governor's aircraft before being put on display at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.[183][184][185]

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