LV-AFW Douglas DC-3C c/n 19790

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LV-AFW  Douglas DC-3C c/n 19790
 - construido como C-47A-80-DL Skytrain
43-15324 USAAF delivered 7Mar44.
 - Eighth Air Force 5May44.
 - Ninth Air Force 6May44. 44th Troop Carrier Squadron [6E*D; Nose #44], 316th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Cottesmore (Station 489).
 - Mission Boston, Serial 17 (#1 Washburn). Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France on D-Day Invasions 06Jun44.
 - Mission ‘Freeport’. Transported supplies for the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 07Jun44.
 - Hit by flak damaging the right engine, emptying the wing reserve fuel tanks and puncturing the fuselage more than 200 times. The aircraft was coaxed back to a safe landing at the emergency airfield at Warmwell (Station 454), Dorset [1WIA].
 - Operation ‘Market’. Transported paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Overasselt, SW of Nijmegen, Netherlands, 17Sep44.
 - Operation ‘Market’. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials for the 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands, 18Sep44.
 - Operation ‘Market’. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials for the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Grave, Netherlands, 23Sep44.
 - TDY to Wethersfield (Station 170) 21Mar45.
 - Operation ‘Varsity’. Transported British 13th Parachute Battalion paratroopers to a drop zone at the southern edge of the Diersfordt, three mile northwest of Wesel, Germany 24Mar45.
 - RFC 16.01.46
NC66162 C.N. Shelton 23.09.46
 - convertido de C-47A-80-DL Skytrain a DC-3C por Douglas Aircraft en 1946.
LV-AFW, ALFA - Aviación del Litoral Fluvial Argentino, 20.04.48 reg 24.03.48
 -  Aerolíneas Argentinas 03.07.50
W/O - Accidentado en Mar del Plata, Bs.As., 15.05.59 - por razones no determinadas, la aeronave se estrella en el mar, a 5km de la costa, después de un decolaje nocturno, 10 víctimas fatales, sin sobrevivientes.
 - reg cld 06.62

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