INDEX OF PRESERVED AIRCRAFT TYPES USED BY THE FAA

Douglas DC-3/C-47/R4D Dakota

Type	Total Number 2000	FAA notes 1999-2000	Threat Status 1999-2000	Changes 1999-2000
Douglas Dakota	848 TOTAL (+?) 632 total airworthy (+?) 34+ in Europe, and 597 airworthy registered DC3s in USA 146 preserved static Dakotas in Europe and 70 in the USA Database of worldwide extant Dakota's The total numbers above do not include full lists of airworthy or static Dakota outside US or Europe.	It is not known if the single former Fleet Air Arm aircraft survived Examples of military naval aviation Dakotas are found in USA, and France.	G-APML (Air Atlantique.)(UK) to be scrapped with nose believed to be going to Kuwait for use in restaurant. Unprotected examples on dumps in Greece and in Turkey.	1 December, 1999: There are a total of 597 DC-3 type aircraft listed in the US Federal Aviation Administration database for the USA only. This compared to 590 in July 1999. See this website files which show the changes from month to month as reported by the USFederal Aviation Administration. (Federation Aviation administration database)

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Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	597 DC-3 type aircraft listed in the US Federal Aviation Administration database.	-	-	-	597 DC-3 type aircraft listed in the US Federal Aviation Administration database.	597 Airworthy aircraft in USA
	N229GB N60, N68, and later N68AH	BuNo: 050819	R4D-6	Marked with "United States Navy" and serial '50819"	Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading (PA)(USA) Long service with USN (Naval Air Transport Service, Squadron VR-2, at Norfolk, Va in 1944. Later outfitted as an Admiral’s ship. Retired in 1980	Airworthy
	N3239T	BuNo: 42-100591	C-47	Marked in its original D-Day stripes as it used in 1944 'US S 2100591" and named "Tico Belle".See photo	Valiant Air Command Titusville, FL (USA) The Dakota "100591" took part in the historic D-Day invasion at Normandy 1944	Airworthy
	N54599	BuNo: 45-00928	C-47B	Named "Ruptured Duck". See photo	MAPS Air Museum, Akron-Canton, OH (USA)	Airworthy
	-	BuNo: 45-00972	C-47	-	Atlantic Warbirds, Plaistow, NH (USA)	Airworthy
	ZA947	ZA947, KG661, 661, BuNo: 42-24338,	C-47A	D Day markings 42-24338, "Portpatrick Princess", as YS-DM of RAF 271Sq.	RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (UK) Ex Royal Aircraft Establishment Dak Coningsby, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight	Airworthy
	G-DAKS N147DC(TS423), (KG374), (G-AGHY),	TS423 BuNo: 42-100884	C-47A	painted as G-AGHY was used in the 1981 TV series "AIRLINE"	Aces High, North Weald, (UK)	Airworthy
	G-BHUB	BuNo: No info	C-47B	painted in wartime USAAF makings In 1980s painted as G-AGIV was used in the 1981 TV series "AIRLINE"	Imperial War Museum Duxford (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMCA	KN487 BuNo: 44-76634,	C-47B	Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMHJ, SU-AZI, G-AMHJ, ZS-BRW,	KG651, BuNo: 42-108962	C-47A	Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMPO LN-RTO	KN566 BuNo: 44-76854	C-47B	"KF964" Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy - spares use
	G-AMPY (NW21711), (EI-BKJ), N15751, TF-FIO, JY-ABE, (JY-AAE)	KK116, BuNo: 43-49308,	C-47B	Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMPZ EI-BDT, TF-AIV, (PH-RIC), OD-AEQ	KN442, BuNo: 44-76540	C-47B	-	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMRA (CCCP-7245)	XE280, KK151, BuNo: 43-49474,	C-47B	-	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy - withdrawn from use
	G-AMSV (F-BSGV)	KN397 BuNo: 44-76488	C-47B	Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-AMYJ SU-AZF	15968/32716 KN353, BuNo: 44-76384, Pollution Control XF747,	C-47B	Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-ANAF N170GP	KP220 BuNo: 44-77104	C-47B	(KP220), Pollution Control	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy
	G-APML	KJ836 BuNo: 43-48359	C-47B	-	Air Atlantique, Coventry (UK)	Airworthy - Scrapped with nose believed to be going to Kuwait for use in restaurant.
	G-HPBA, PH-PBA, (PH-TCB), PH-PBA, (PH-RLD),	BuNo: 42-100971, rebuilt with major sections of C-47A G-BVOL c/n 9836	C-47A	-	Dutch Dakota Association (Netherlands)	Airworthy
	G-AMSN N3455, EI-BSI, SU-BFZ, N3455	KN673 BuNo: 44-77047	C-47B	-	North Coates, Museum (UK)	Airworthy
	N47FK, EC-FNS, EC-187, N2669A, C-FEEX, CF-EEX, N308FN, N3PG, N3W, N7V, NC49538,	BuNo: 42-23838 N47FK	C-47A	-	Dakota Club, North Weald, (UK)	Airworthy
	G-DAKK F-GEOM, (G-OFON), (FYGGC), OK-WZB, OK-WDU	BuNo: 42-23936	C-47A	-	South Coast Airways, Bournemouth (UK) Ex In 1995 MLP Aviation, Elstree (UK)	Airworthy
	N3455 33379/16631	BuNo: 44-77047	C-47B	-	Victory Memorial Museum (Belgium)	Airworthy
	OH-LCH	c/n 6346	C-47	Finnish Airlines colours.	Air Veteran/Airveteran. (Finland)	Airworthy
	OH-LCD	c/n 19309	C-47	-	Air Veteran (Finland)	Airworthy
	D-CADE	-	C-47	-	Auto und Technik Museum Speyer (Germany)	Airworthy
	N64784	-	C-47	-	Dream Air (Switzerland)	Airworthy
	HB-ISB	4667	C-47	-	Classic Air (Switzerland)	Airworthy
	HB-ISC	9995	C-47	-	Classic Air (Switzerland)	Airworthy
	F-BFGX	-	C-47	-	Auto und Technik Museum Speyer (Germany)	Airworthy
	PH-DDA	-	C-47	-	Dutch Dakota Association (Netherlands)	Airworthy till crashed and destroyed 1996
	PH-TCB	42-23974	C-47A	-	Aviodome, Schiphol, Amsterdam airport (Netherlands)	Airworthy
	PH-DDZ	-	C-47	-	Dutch Dakota Association (Netherlands)	Airworthy
	PH-PBA	-	C-47	-	Dutch Dakota Association (Netherlands)	Airworthy
	F-GIDK	16604/33352	C-47	Marked as "44-77020"	Flown by Dakota Air Legend (France)	Airworthy
	LN-WND	11750	C-47	-	Dakota Norway. Based Sandefjod-Torp (Norway)	Airworthy
	SE-CFP	13883	C-47	In SAS colours.	Preserved and flown out of Stockholm-Bromma by Flygande Veteraner (Sweden)	Airworthy
	ES-AKE	16697/33445	C-47	-	A Jansson. Based Vallentuna, near Stockholm (Sweden).	Airworthy
	TF-NPK	13861	C-47	-	State Soil Service, Rekyavik (Iceland)	Airworthy
	-	IJ 302	C-47 Dakota	-	Indian Air Force Museum Vintage Aircraft Flight (India)	Airworthy

Douglas Dakota
Status	Civil Registration Nunber	Serial Number s/n	Type	Markings	Owner/Operator	Condition/Notes
	G-BPMP	BuNo: No info	C-47	-	Parkhouse Aviation in High Wycombe (UK) Ex Lord Beaverbrook 1989 - 1991, Ex Keenair at Liverpool, Ex Moroccan Air Force.	Airworthy and recently destroyed In early 1990s broken up with the wings going to the US and the nose section going to a bookshop in Europe
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	-	KP208 16671/33419 BuNo: 44-77087	C-47B	Marked as "44-77087" in D-Day colours	Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot (UK)	Static
	(FD988), (G-AGIV), G-BHUB, N51V, N9985F, SE-BBH,	BuNo: 43-15509 (KG418)	C-47A/DC-3A	-	Imperial War Museum - Duxford (UK)	Stored
	F-GEFU 19074 st, (6W-SAF), (F-BNFB),	BuNo: 42-100611 0-00611, (0-100611), (0-20611), 42-100611,	C-47A	painted in 438th TCG c/s as "4U"	Booker-Wycombe Air Park, Booker Aircraft Museum (UK)	Static nose-section only
	G-AMSM	15764/27209 st, KN274, 43-49948	C-47B	-	Brenzett Aeronautical Museum (UK)	Static nose-section only, stored outside at the remainder of this former RAF-airfield.
	-	(KG374/YS) 16587/33335 8355M, KN645, BuNo: 44-77003	C-47B	-	RAF Museum Cosford, Aerospace Museum (UK)	Static
	N9050T, 5N-ATA, (N9050T), 5N-ATA, PH-MAG, G-AGYX,	BuNo: 42-92648 KG437	C-47A	-	Dakota's American Bistro Restaurant, Fleet (UK)	Static cockpit section is on display in the bar, together with more of the fuselage and an engine.
	N5595T, G-BGCG, N49V, NC50322,	BuNo: 43-15536	C-47A	-	Hatch/Rotary Farm, private (UK)	Stored
	F-GEFY, (F-SEYE), OK-WCR, OK-WAR	BuNo: 42-93510	C-47A	-	Kew Trucking, Surrey (UK)	Static nose-section only, mounted on trailer for static display at shows
	KN448	16170/32918 BuNo: 44-76568	C-47B	-	Science Museum, London (UK)	Static nose-section only
	N4565L (N3TV), LV-GYP, LV-PCV, N129H, N512, N51D, N80C, NC21744	2108	DC-3	-	390th Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum, Parham (UK). sold to Aces High Ltd. of North Weald in late 1994 who removed the engines, props and undercarriage for spares use.The airframe then was sold on to the museum and moved to Parham	Static - under restoration damaged in heavy storm at Ipswich on 25 January, 1990
	EI-AYO, N655GP, N65556, N255JB, N8695E, N333H, NC16071	1911	DC-3A	-	Wroughton, Science Museum (UK)	Static
	N4565L	BuNo: 2108	DC-3	-	British Resistance Museum, Framlingham (UK)	Static
	33419/16671	BuNo: 44-77087 KP208	C-47B	-	Parachute Regiment & Airbourne Forces Museum UK)	Static
	G-AMPP	c/n 15272/26717	C-47	Marked as G-AMSU	Euro Disney (France).	Static
	-	25 c/n 19288	C-47	Marked as "315159. D-Day invasion stripes"	Airborne Troops Museum at St Mere Eglise (France).	Static
	MM61894	716 C/n 16700/33448	C-47	-	Musee De Traditions De'Aeronautique Navale at Rochefort (France).	Static
	-	C/n 4261	C-47	-	Museo Storico dell'Aeronautica Militare Italian, Guidonia, Rome (Italy).	Static
	F-BAIF	c/n 16371/33119	C-47	Marked as "2100847."	Victory Memorial Museum, Arlon (Belgium)	Static
	K-16/OT-CWG	20823	C-47	-	Royal Museum of the Army and Military History	Static
	349081	BuNo: 349081	C-47	-	Berlin Luftbrucken Denkmal (Germany)	Static
	-	111	C-47	-	Flugausstellung Leo Junior (Germany)	Static
	-	X-5	C-47	-	Military Airforce Museum (Netherlands)	Static
	N32MS	BuNo: No info	C-47	-	Wings of Liberation (Netherlands)	Static
	-	BuNo: No info	DC-3	DC-3 Douglas Dakota, in post-war RAAF colours	Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia, the Bull Creek Collection (Australia)	Static
			C-47	See Photo	Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum (Pakistan)	Static
	P2-ANQ ex VH-SBW	BuNo: 27110	C-47B	"Larry Blackman"	Air Niugini Head Office at Jackson's airport, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea). Ex personal mount of General Montgomery 1940s	Static
	CF-CPY	4665	C-47 Built 1942	-	Whitehorse Airport, Yukon Territory (Canada) Restored by Yukon Flying Club 1977	Static - preserved as a weathervane
	-	BuNo: 012418	C-47	Marked with "United States Navy" named "Que Sera Sera" . See photo	NNAM, Pensacola NAS, FL (USA) on loan from the Smithsonian Museum	Static
	N587NA	BuNo: 012420	R4D	-	Opalocka, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 050811	AC-47	marked as "43-49942" modified with 3 side-firing 7.62mm miniguns, to create an AC-47 gunship. see photos	Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 050835	C-47		El Toro MCAS, CA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 41-07723	C-47	Marked in USAAF D-Day stripes as "Z/17723". See photo	Pima Air & Space Museum, AZ (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 41-20093	C-47	-	Edwards AFB, CA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-100857	C-47	marked as'0-315497'	Kulis ANGB (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-100972	C-47		Charleston AFB, SC (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-100995	C-47	marked as '43-15732'	Kirtland AFB, NM (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 41-108808	C-47	marked with D-Day stripes	Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, TX (USA) Last flew with US Customs	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-108866	C-47	-	Pate Museum, Bourland, TX (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-23668	C-47	-	Beale AFB (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-68688	C-47	-	Queen City - Allentown, PA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-68835	C-47	-	McClellan AFB, CA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-92127	C-47	-	Ellsworth Museum and AFB, SD (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-92841	C-47	-	Dover AFB, DE (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-92990	C-47	-	Vacaville-nut tree, CA, (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-93168	C-47	marked in D-Day stripes. See photo	Kalamazoo Air Zoo, MI (USA)	Static
	N64605	BuNo: 42-93328	C-47	See Photo	Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, C0 (USA) Last used by the military as an Arctic research laboratory out of Point Barrow Alaska. Donated in 1979 by US Naval Air Systems Command at Washington D.C.	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-93790	C-47	-	Ft. Benning, GA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 42-93800	C-47	-	Bonanzaville Museum, ND (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-??770	AC-47	-	Gunther AFB, AL (USA)	Static
	N457NA	BuNo: 43-15094	C-47	-	Opalocka, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15200	C-47	-	Transport Museum Wasilla, AK (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15579	C-47A	-	March AFB, CA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15635	C-47	Marked in D-Day invasion stripes. See Photo.	Museum of Transportation St. Louis, MO (USA) Believed to have taken aprt in the D-dAy Normandy invasion, June 1944	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15977	C-47	Marked "L7 N/315977" in D-Day stripes. See photo	Castle Air Museum, CA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-16130	C-47A	-	8th Air Force Museum Barksdale AFB (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15510	AC-47D	marked as AC-47D '100510'	Hurlburt Field, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-15512	C-47	-	Portland Museum of Science, OR (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-16141	C-47B	marked "VT-ANG". See photo	Vermont ANG, Burlington, VT (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-48098	C-47A	See photo	Strategic Air Command Museum, Offutt AFB (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-48415	C-47	Marked as "43-201"	Kelly AFB (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-48910	C-47	-	Fort Campbell, KY (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-48932	C-47	-	82nd Airborne Division War Memorial, Fort Bragg, NC (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-48957	C-47	-	Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49012	C-47	-	Tinker AFB, OK (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49270	C-47	-	Grissom AFB Museum, IN (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49281	C-47	-	Hill AFB Museum, UT (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49322	C-47	-	Minneapolis ANG Museum, MN (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49336	VC-47D	Marked in USAF "49336"	Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, IL(USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49507	C-47D	Marked as "O M2 43-45174". displayed as a C-47A of the 88th Troop Carrier Squadron, 438th Troop Carrier Group, which participated in the invasion of Europe on D-Day, 6 June, 1944.	USAF Museum, Wright Patterson AFB, OH (USA) the last C-47 in routine USAF use, was flown to the Museum in 1975	Static
		BuNo: 43-49526	C-47	-	Fairchild AFB, WA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 43-49819	C-47	-	Schenectady, NY (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76326	VC47D	Marked R 76326 7H"	USS Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Al (USA) On 7 July 1971 SAC's last C-47 was transferred to the USS Alabama Monument Commission.	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76457	C-47	-	Brooklyn, NY (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76462	C-47	Marked as '293496'	Pope AFB, NC (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76486	C-47	-	Eglin AFB Museum, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76582	C-47D	-	Forbes Field, Topeka, KS (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 44-76671	C-47D	-	Lackland AFB, TX (USA)	Static
	ZK-AWO	BuNo: 44-77148 RNZAF:NZ3548	C-47B-35-DK	See photos. To be painted in RNZAF colours and named "Popeye"	Chris Rudge, (New Zealand) Recovered off a farm near Feilding (NZ) June 2000. See warbirdsite.com	Cockpit section
	-	BuNo: 45-01074	C-47	-	Pima Air & Space Museum (AZ)(USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: 17278	C-47	-	Quantico MCAS, VA (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: No info	C-47	-	NNAM, Pensacola NAS, FL (USA)	Static
	-	BuNo: No info	C-47	-	NNAM, Pensacola NAS, FL (USA)	static
	-	BuNo: 50826	R4D-8	Marked as "United States Marines CZ/50826"	Pima Air & Space Museum (AZ)(USA)	Static
	-	"892953"	C-47	-	Oklahoma City fairground, OK (USA)	Static on a pole

Associations and reunions

Douglas DC-3/Dakota Historical Society

The Douglas DC-3/Dakota Owner & Operator Association

Dakota Air Corporation

The Dakota Trust

The Dakota Trust (UK)

The Foundation Dakota Norway

Friends of the DC-3 England Headquarters: John & Maureen Woods

Warbird Dakota Society, Ardmore Airport, Auckland NZ

Dutch Dakota Association

FURTHER INFORMATION
Oldprops DC3 Non-USA Census for Douglas Dakota survivors	For USA DC3/C47/C117 go to Oldprops Douglas DC3/C47/C117 USA To see a list of surviving European DC3s go to: Oldprops DC3 Non-USA Census
DC3 Aviation Museum	The Museums and Organizations that provide the restored DC-3/C-47/R4D/Dakota for living History
Database of worldwide extant Dakota's	In this database you may search by Registration Identification or by Serial Number. the following countries have been included in the Registration Database: United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Dakota's in Europe	An introduction with details of the extant Dakotas in Europe
Dakota's in Great Britain	List of extant Dakotas in UK
Flightline - Preserved US Military Aircraft	This list of US military aircraft preserved and displayed was originally compiled by Ben Marselis with input from many others. Our coverage of airworthy warbirds is very limited, since Ben did not cover them in the original list. We have concentrated on those which are often on display rather than personal projects.
Airworthy Warbirds & Aircraft	Worldwide lists of selected Bombers, Fighters, Liaison, Trainers and Transport aircraft. The aim of this site is to build up a database with 'all' airworthy Warbirds and those being rebuilt to airworthy condition. Currently the site contains 773 different aircraft and 451 pictures of the aircraft.
	Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995) 'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945' Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 085130 232 7

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