Known Squadron Assignments: 164;104;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47-DL, serial number 42-32789. To Eastern Air Command 1943. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Became instructional airframe A 508 on 7 December 1946. To Philippine AF after being sold.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-March-31 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-July-12 Classified Instructional A 508 2020-06-13
   1953-February-03 Struck off Strength 2020-09-23

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;ANS;104

Ex US C-47A-20-DL 42-23428. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Seen at Pennfield Ridge on 19 August 1945. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. With No. 104 Composite Flight at St. Hubert in 1960, reported then as their only Dakota. With the Air Navigation School, CFB Winnipeg, in late 1960s, converted to Mk. 3 by then.
From 12936
Ex US C-47A-20-DL 42-23428, ex RCAF 651. Used by Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg. To Australian civil register as VC-DHN, then N46949. Operated by Aero Servicios in Florida in the 1980s. Converted to Basler BT-67 (Basler conversion no. 18). To Royal Thai AF as RTAF 883 c.1998; believed later reserialled 46153.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-April-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change to CAF as 12936 2023-06-02
   1976-July-30 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164

Ex USAAF C-47-DL, serial number 42-32882. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Became instructional airframe A 509 on 12 July 1946. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. To civil register post war, as N45F, as CF-ITQ in 1976, registered to Millardair of Malton, Ontario. Later C-FITQ, off Canadian register by 1982. Last reported as 6Y-JJQ.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-April-27 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1943-November-14 Accident: 164 Squadron Loc: RAF Stnorth Charlottetown Names: Altraws | Armstrong | Barber | Berrington | Black | Bright | Bristow | Burrows | Clarke | Clarke | Deau | Graudain | Hall | Harrison | Henderson | Lawton | Lee | Louch | Mahoney | McLeod | Mcvagh | Munro | Owen | Shaw | Shilling | Thompson | Ward | Watterson | Woods
   1946-July-12 Classified Instructional A 509 2020-06-13
   1955-November-14 Struck off Strength struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;165;168;412;102;AETE;429

Ex US C-47A-25-DL 42-23553. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, c.1943. Also reported with No. 165 (T) Squadron in 1943. Operated by No. 168 (HT) Squadron, UK Detachment, c.1944 to 1946. Based at Gibraltar by August 1944. Noted as nearing time expired, and needing to be replaced in 168 Squadron, on 29 March 1945. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, PQ, from Goose Bay), February 1952, while with 412 Squadron. Also reported as sold on 15 August 1952? With No. 102 (C&R) Flight, RCAF Station Trenton, in November 1953, when it searched for a missing USAF F-89 over Lake Michigan. Took part in Operation Bulldog (air drop of Army engineers and equipment, out of Fort Nelson, BC) in February 1954. Later used by Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment at CFB Uplands.
from 12937
Ex US C-47A-25-DL 42-23553, ex RCAF 653. With No. 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. Operating from CFB Trenton, Ontario in 1984. Carried name "Southern Comfort". Had been in Canadian military service for over 46 years when struck off. Stored at AMDU, CFB Trenton by November 1990. On US register as N400BF since 1998. Stored at Basler Turbo Conversions in 2004, reported being converted to turboprops for Thai Air Force.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-May-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1943-July-08 Accident: 1 REFRESHER Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Collins | Ellis | Lockheed
   1970-June-03 Serial Change To CAF as 12937 2023-06-02
   1990-January-17 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;165;435

Ex USAAF C-47A-30-DL serial number 42-23733. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, c.1943 to 1946. Also with No. 165 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, during this period. Seen at Pennfield Ridge on 10 August 1945. Operated by Winter Experimental Establishment, RCAF Station Edmonton, from 1946. Arrived at Winnipeg, en route to Churchill, on 29 January 1947, weathered in at Winnipeg for several days. Took part in Operation Sundog II in February 1951 (airborne assault exercise out of Churchill, Manitoba), possibly with 435 (T) Squadron. With No. 435 Squadron when it crashed on 21 July 1952. Flying Officer R.A.N. MacNeil killed.

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last update: 2024-September-22
RCAF Accident Record
   1943-June-17 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1952-August-15 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1952-July-21 KIFA RCAF Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Pierre Jacques Bourbeau 2023-05-01
1952-July-21 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Roger Anthony Neal MacNeill 2023-07-30
1952-July-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Ralph Garfield Raho 2023-07-30

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;165;435;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23969. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, c.1943 to 1946. Also with No. 165 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, during this period. Used by No. 5 Staging Unit, Whitehorse, NWT, in September 1943. Damaged during attempted landing at Snag, NWT on 21 September 1943, when landing gear snagged a pile of loose earth at the end of the runway. Aircraft went around, returned to Whitehorse, where both main gear collapsed on landing. No injuries, minimal damage. With No. 164 Squadron detachment in Edmonton, Alberta in June 1945, and in November 1945, when its camouflage paint was removed. Still with this Detachment in April 1946. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta, by June 1946, still there September 1946. Nosed over on landing at Fort St. John, BC on 25 January 1947. Repaired on site. Detached to Norman Wells, NWT 3 June 1947 to carry fuel for Photo Wing detachments operating in area that summer. To Rockcliffe for major inspection, 22 June 1947. At RCAF Station Centralia in the early 1950s, as a radio trainer. Also reported as Mk. IIIR. Still active February 1968. Last served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba. To civil register as CF-QJZ, C-FQJZ by 1976, registered to Gateway Aviation of Edmonton, Alberta. Off Canadian register by 1982. Also reported as owned by Aeroshell, Guayaquil.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-14 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1943-September-21 Accident: 165 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Anonen | Bruce | Gordon | Hillcoate | Knox | Sweetman
   1970-May-25 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;165;435;CJATC;ANS;6OTU;402

Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23970. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, c.1943 to 1946. Also with No. 165 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, during this period. Used by No. 5 Staging Unit, Whitehorse, NWT, in 1943. Seen at Pennfield Ridge on 20 August 1945. Delivered to No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta on 3 February 1949. To Los Angeles and Buffalo, NY in October 1950. Took part in Operation Assinaboine, 14 November 1950 (6 plane paradrop at Camp Shilo, Manitoba). Transferred to Rivers Camp, Manitoba in December 1950. Served with Transport Support School, CJATC. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, Quebec, from Goose Bay), February 1952. Took part in Operation Bulldog (air drop of Army engineers and equipment, out of Fort Nelson, BC) in February 1954. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Still active February 1968. Served with No. 6 Operational Training Unit at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta in late 1960s.
From 12938
Ex USAAF C47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23970, ex RCAF 656 . Pinocchio conversion, used at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. Named "Dolly's Folly". Visited Vancouver Airport, 1978. Last NASARR training mission flown at Cold Lake on 14 January 1983. Made its last operational CAF Dakota flight on 1 July 1983, while with 402 Squadron, CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba. Had been in Canadian military service for over 46 years when struck off. Stored at AMDU, CFB Trenton by November 1990. On US civil register as N21BF, registered to Basler on 16 December 1997. Reported at Basler Turbo Conversions LLC, waiting for conversion, still there, stored outside, in 2011.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-14 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12938 2019-08-20
   1990-January-17 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;412;413;435;121

Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23972. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in January and June 1946. With No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, in 1949. Medevac to Toronto in April 1949. With 413 (P) Squadron, 1950. To 435 (T) Squadron, Edmonton, on 30 March 1950, to replace KJ936. With No. 121 (KU) Unit at RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, in 1951 and in 1963.
From 12939
Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23972, ex RCAF 657. Used at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. To civil register as CF-IRW. Owned by St. Felicien Air Services of St. Felicien in 1976, as C-FIRW. Later registered to Transport Aerien Sept-Iles of Sept-Isles, Quebec, cancelled 1982.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-14 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-May-25 Accident: 164 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baril | McClintock
1944-October-07 Accident: 164 Squadron Loc: Moncton New Brunswick Names: Hunter | Kenny | Warren
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12939 . 2019-08-20
   1973-February-16 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 165;168;164;426;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23968. With No. 165 (T) Squadron in July 1943, ferried to Edmonton from Rockcliffe on July 19. Used by No. 5 Staging Unit, Whitehorse, NWT, in September 1943. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron in 1944, operating between UK and Italy. Based at Gibralter by August 1944. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, September 1945. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in March 1946 when it carried out a medivac flight to Fort Chimo, Quebec. Still there in June 1946. With No. 426 Squadron post war, coded "BC*D". Based at RCAF Station Centralia, Ontario, in November 1953 as a radio trainer, when it searched for a missing USAF F-89 over Lake Michigan. Still active February 1968. With the Air Navigation School, CFB Winnipeg, in late 1960s. Later to US civil register as N8563, reported sold in 2006.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-14 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-July-10 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;435;104;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23971. Used by Test and Development Establishment, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, dates unknown. Operating along North West Staging Route in September 1943. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron in 1944, operating between UK and Italy. Based at Gibraltar by August 1944. Served with No. 435 (T) Squadron post war. Ferried to Dorval, Quebec on 18 November 1947, replaced by 976. Back to 435 Squadron in September 1948. Extensive corrosion in tail discovered in April 1949, repaired at Edmonton by mobile party from No. 10 Repair Depot, Calgary. To Rockcliffe, for Photo Wing, November 1950. Operated on behalf of UN in Sinai from 1956 to 1967. Also with No. 104 (KU) Unit at St. Hubert, Quebec, dates unknown.
From 12940
Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-23971, ex RCAF 659. Used by Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg. To US civil register as N300ZZ, operated by Trans Air West. Operated by Air Charter West in California in 1977. Registration cancelled by 2005, when it was registered to G.S. Cartright of Haiti, noted then as a turboprop.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-19 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12940 2019-08-20
   1973-May-18 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;101;123;424;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-60-DL, serial number 42-24377. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Reported at Pennfield Ridge in May and August 1945, probably with the Transport Conversion Squadron. Served with No. 101 (KU) Unit at Dartmouth, dates unknown. Operated by No. 123 (S&R) Flight at RCAF Station Sea Island, BC in early 1948, as a target tug. Dropped pararescue jumpers as part of 1949 Air Force Day display at Sea Island. Carried support crew and supplies for 442 Squadron Vampires when they took part in air show at Spokane in September 1949. In target tug markings, coded "KP*D", early 1950s. Coded "MH*660" by 1958, still in tug markings. Served with 424 Squadron at CFB Trenton in late 1960s.
From 12941
Ex USAAF C-47A-40-DL, serial number 42-24377, ex RCAF 660. Serving with 424 Squadron at CFB Trenton when renumbered. Later with 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Registration C-GWXP reserved, but apparently not used.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-September-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change became CAF 12941 2019-08-20
   1975-October-24 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;CEPE;412

Ex USAAF C-47A-60-DL, serial number 42-24338. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in January and June 1946. With Winnipeg Detachment of No. 435 (T) Squadron by September 1946. Delivered to No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta on 3 February 1949. Took part in Operation Assinaboine, 14 November 1950 (6 plane paradrop at Camp Shilo, Manitoba). To Rockcliffe, for Photo Wing, late November 1950. With Central Experimental and Proving Establishment Suffield Detachment in June 1953, used to test spray equipment. With 412 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario in 1961. Served with 1 Wing at Lahr Germany in the late 1960s. When it was sold to the British Ministry of Defence in April 1969 for use by the Royal Aircraft Establishment, it was thought to be formerly KG661 and was given this serial; when the error was discovered it was reserialled ZA947 in July 1979. Named "Portpatrick Princess". Transferred to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in March 1993, now marked as KG374.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-September-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-April-20 Accident: 164 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Names: Kerr | Kingsley | Pow | Sweetman | Venables
   1969-April Sold as Surplus sold, see comments 2019-08-20
   1969-May-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;137

Ex USAAF C-47A-60-DL, serial number 42-24339. Operated by No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, 1943 to 1946. Reported at Pennfield Ridge in spring of 1945. With the Aircraft Armament School at Trenton in January 1948, equipped as target tug, when it was detached to Dartmouth for firing exercises with HMCS Haida. Based at RCAF Greenwood, NS when it was used to fly sandbags from Minneapolis to Winnipeg for flood relief efforts, May 1950. Operated by No. 137 Transport Flight, from RAF Langar, UK, in support of 1 Air Division in Europe, in the 1950s. Seen at RAF Odiham, UK in September 1966. Served with 1 Wing at Lahr, Germany in the late 1960s. Still active February 1968. With Sultan of Muscat's Own Air Force from 30 July 1969, their serial number 502. To UK for overhaul in October 1970, then to civil register as LN-TVA, then C-GSTA and also HK-2663X. Stored at Villvicencio, Columbia c.2000. By 2007 back in service as YV211T, operated by AECA.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-September-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-March-27 Accident: 164 Squadron Loc: Blissville New Brunswick Names: Bain | Deeks | Walker
   1969-May-06 Struck off Strength Struck off and sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 12;435;412;101

Ex USAAF C-47A-60-DL, serial number 42-24340. Operated by No. 12 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, in camouflage. Seen at Pennfield Ridge on 11 August 1945, still with No. 12 Squadron. Carried government officials to South America and return, February 1946. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, Winnipeg Detachment, by September 1946. Carried Air Commodore Kerr and party on western tour that month. Medevac flight to Southhampton Island, NWT, delivering patient to Winnipeg on 28 September 1946. Carried survey party from Rockcliffe to Churchill, December 1946. With No. 12 (Comm) Squadron, Rockcliffe, by February 1947, when it carried US-Canadian Joint Board of Defense from Ottawa to Winnipeg. With 412 (T) Squadron in April 1949, when it carried the RCAF Band to Austin, Texas. With No. 101 (KU) Unit at Dartmouth, NS, dates unknown. Still active February 1968. On civil register as CF-TKX in 1976, registered to Pem-Air of Pembroke, Ontario. Later reported to be CF-AAL, but off Canadian register by 1982.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-September-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1969-December-18 Sold as Surplus Sold, exact date not known. 2019-08-20
   1969-December-18 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 165;164;112

Ex USAAF C-47A-60-DL, serial number 42-24341. Operated by No. 165 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, c.1943 to 1945. Used for trials with wheels / ski installation. Based at RCAF Station Edmonton in July 1945. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth in January 1946, when it was lent to a western Canadian Detachment for the build up to Operation Musk-Ox. Back at Dartmouth by June 1946. Operated by No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers Camp, Manitoba when it delivered medical staff and supplies to Chesterfield Inlet, NWT in February 1949, in response to polio outbreak there. Returned to Churchill with 15 civilian evacuees. Repeat the mission in April 1949.
last update: 2024-September-22
RCAF Accident Record
   1943-September-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1950-February-28 Struck off Strength written off, while on skiis 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92464, ex RAF FZ675, transferred to RCAF 18 Feb 1944 serial 960. With No. 164 (T) Squadron detachment in Edmonton, Alberta in November and December 1945. Edmonton to Rockcliffe and return in February 1946, to transport VIPs. Still with this Detachment in April 1946. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. Flew medevac mission to Whitehorse, 7 August 1946. Delivered patient to Vancouver, BC. Round trip Edmonton to Whitehorse on 24 January 1947. Instructional airframe A 628 on 14 February 1959. Sold by Crown Assets Disposal Corporation, to civil register as CF-OVW, still airworthy with this registration in 1976. Registration cancelled on 22 September 1998. Later registered as N983DC, airworthiness certificate dated 16 October 1998, as DC-3C1C3G. Still airworthy May 2023.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-February-18 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1959-February-14 Classified Instructional CA A 628 2020-06-09
   1962-December-17 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2023-06-10

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;112;

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92483. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. Delivered to Rockcliffe on 17 January 1947, for use by Photo Wing. With No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers, Manitoba in August 1947, when it delivered pararescue jumpers to downed civilian aircraft near The Pas. Dispatched to BC in October 1947, to search for missing B-25. Port elevator damaged while being towed out of hanger at Rivers on 22 February 1948. Based at RCAF Station Centralia, Ontario, in November 1953 as a radio trainer, when it searched for a missing USAF F-89 over Lake Michigan. Sold by Crown Assets Disposal Corporation, on civil register as CF-AAB, still airworthy 1976. Later to US civil register as N2290L.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-February-18 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1964-August-17 Struck off Strength struck off, to Crown Assets Disposal Corporation for sale. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;124

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92713. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron in 1944, operating between UK and Italy. Based at Gibralter by August 1944. Used by No. 124 (Ferry) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, to pick up and deliver ferry pilots across Canada. Crashed while delivering ferry pilots to pick up Cornells. Pilot lost control while attempting a go around. Subsequent investigation revealed that starboard elevator lock had not been removed before take off at Minot, ND. This was greatest loss of life in any RCAF accident up to that time. Struck off 25 October 1946.

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RCAF Accident Record
   1944-February-24 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-September-15 Accident Crash Crashed at Estevan, Saskatchewan, 21 fatalities. 2022-06-15

   1947-July-24 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Joseph Alphonse Camille Bouchard DFC 2023-02-07
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Avard Brandser 2022-07-11
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Clifford Somerville Coppin 2024-04-14
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Henry Hugh Cowan DFC 2024-05-06
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Maurice Crosby Cuthbert 2023-03-02
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Murdoch Jackson 2023-01-31
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Pyle Jessee DFC 2023-05-11
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Ned Jordan 2023-06-23
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Vitanos Luke Kirko 2022-07-11
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Victor Kirsch DFC 2023-06-30
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Stewart Lees DFC 2023-11-14
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert James McIntyre 2023-06-28
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Cowan McRoberts DFC 2023-06-13
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Louis Eric John Murphy DFC 2023-03-02
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Albert Perry 2023-03-04
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Stephen Pond 2023-06-14
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Charles Stanley Wright Proctor DFC 2023-02-20
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Edward Chester Stewart DFC, DFM 2023-06-26
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Max Thomas 2023-06-30
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Leonard Edgar Turtle 2023-06-30
1946-September-15 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Jacob Louis Weicker DFC & Bar 2023-03-09

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU;164;435;ANS;429;402;CFS

Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK, serial number 42-92712. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC, c.1945. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Moncton, NB in September 1945. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945. With No. 164 (T) Squadron, Winnipeg detachment, to support Operation Muskox from 4 April 1946. Used by No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. To Baker Lake, NWT on 16 August 1946, for paradrop. To Churchill, Manitoba, and Baker Lake, NWT, 26 August 1946. To Fargo, ND on 30 August 1946, to pick up Cornell ferry pilots. With Winnipeg Detachment by September 1946. To Churchill, Manitoba most of October 1946, to fly US Army stores out of Coral Harbour, NWT. Delivered to Rockcliffe on 20 January 1947, for use by Photo Wing, but back with 435 Squadron on 26 February 1947, when it damaged a wing tip on landing at Fort St. John, BC. Visited Cambridge Bay, NWT in April 1947, in natural metal finish by then. Carried fuel between Norman Wells, NWT and Sawmill Bay, NWT for Photo Wing detachments, summer of 1947. Sent to Montreal 19 July 1948 for overhaul by civil contractor (Canadair?). At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, after integration but before serial was changed.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-March-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12950. 2023-06-10
   1990-September-17 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, 42-92593, ex RAF KG381. RAF serial number never carried. With No. 164 (T) Squadron detachment in Edmonton, Alberta in November to December 1945. With Winnipeg Detachment and Edmonton Detachment in April 1946. Dropped paratroops at Carberry on several occasions in May 1946. Towing Hadrian gliders between Winnipeg and Gimli from May 1946. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. Still with this unit on 17 April 1947, when it was badly damaged in forced landing 20 miles from The Pas, Manitoba, following an engine failure. Repaired on site by mobile party from No. 10 Repair Depot in Calgary, first flight after repairs on 21 May 1947. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Still operational in February 1968. Served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, after integration but before serial was changed.
From 12951
Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, 42-92593, ex RAF KG381, ex RCAF 964. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sold, to civil register as CF-OOY, registered to Kenting Aviation of Calgary, Alberta. Later noted as C-FOOY. With Kenting Atlas Aviation when it was damaged in a wheels up landing 50 miles north of Frobisher Bay on 3 November 1975, resulting from fuel exhaustion. Had been diverted from original destination by bad weather. No fatalities amongst the 3 crew and 23 passengers. Canadian registration cancelled by 1984.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-March-09 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12951. 2023-06-10
   1971-September-16 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93012. Used as radio trainer during war. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, when it delivered a Merlin engine to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, for a Lancaster that went unserviceable there while ferrying from east coast to storage in Alberta. Detached to western Canada 3 to 10 January 1946, to support build up for Operation Musk-Ox. Back at Dartmouth by June 1946. With Central Air Command Communications Flight at Trenton in July 1948. Still operational in February 1968, but never received new serial number. Served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, after integration. Sold to ALPA Aerotaxis of Peru, registered OB-T-1043.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-April-13 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-May-15 Struck off Strength Struck off, and sold. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 165

Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93013. Used by No. 165 (T) Squadron in western Canada. Crashed on takeoff from Port Hardy BC airport 18 July 1944. 6 fatalities.

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RCAF Accident Record
   1944-April-13 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1944-August-11 Struck off Strength written off, after crash on 18 July 1944 2019-08-20
1944-July-18 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William John Curtis 2023-06-01
1944-July-18 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Theron Elwyn Daniels 2024-10-31
1944-July-18 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Claremont Delmar Kippan 2023-06-04
1944-July-18 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Lorne Clarence Rideout 2023-05-12
1944-July-18 KIFA Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles Wellington Steele 2023-06-07
1944-July-18 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Wallace Dicker Stroud 2022-05-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;426;435

Ex USAAF C-47 A-20-DK serial number 42-93201. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in January 1946. Delivered spare engine from No. 6 Repair Depot at Trenton to Operation Musk-Ox aircraft at Norman Wells, 24 Apr to 1 May 1946. Still at Dartmouth in June 1946. Operated by No. 426 (T) Squadron when it crashed on take off from Gander on 22 September 1946. No injuries, no post crash fire. With Winnipeg Detachment of No. 435 (T) Squadron in 1947. Delivered skiis for Norseman 371 on 1 January 1947, needed for medevac flight into NWT. Some confusion on dates here: struck off and crash date is from Griffin, service history in 1947 is from Squadron Diary.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-April-28 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1947-February-14 Struck off Strength Struck off, after crashing at Gander on 22 September 1946. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 165;164;435;CFS

Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93202. Operated by No. 165 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, c.1944. Based at RCAF Station Edmonton by July 1944. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton in April 1946, still there when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. To Fargo ND 8 August 1946 to pick up ferry pilots. With Winnipeg Detachment by September 1946. Dropped paratroopers at Carberry, Manitoba on 9 September 1946. Reported u/s at Churchill, Manitoba on 1 October 1946. Towed Army gliders at Gimili, Manitoba and Carberry, Manitoba in October and November 1946. Transferred to main squadron, at Edmonton, in November 1946. Still there on 9 June 1947, when it carried the RCAF Band to Vancouver, BC. Carried English Air Cadets across Canada, July and August 1947. To No. 6 RD, RCAF Station Trenton, for installation of Gyro Fluxgate Compass and Dead Reckoning Master Unit, 2 to 30 September 1947. Carried Air Marshall Curtis and General Foulkes on Arctic tour, October 1947. Carried VIPs on Arctic tour, 24 and 25 May 1948. Carried Air Commodore Carscallon on tour of NWAC, March 1949. Still operational February 1968. Served with the Central Flying School at RCAF Station Gimli, Manitoba, dates unknown.
From 12952
Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93202, ex RCAF 968. Reported by Baugher as ex RCAF 967? Sold, to civil register as C-GXAV. Us registration N92A reserved, but not used. Back to Canada as C-GCTE. With Alberta Northern Airlines of Calgary with this mark, cancelled in 1983. Sold to Nahanni Air Services Ltd. of Norman Wells, NWT, registration cancelled in 1985. Operated by Frontier in 1985. Then to Rog-Air Limited, based at Kapuskasing, Ontario, registration cancelled in 1990. Later N7164E, EC-659. Current 3 May 2004 as N47FL. Reported stored with Aces High in the UK in 2006.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-April-29 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12952. 2023-06-10
   1973-May-18 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;112;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93432. Assigned to Air Force Headquarters in 1944. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Moncton, NB in September 1945, when it was noted as fitted with long range tanks. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945. Supporting Operation Musk-Ox, operating from Yellowknife, on loan to Edmonton Detachment 3 to 16 March 1946. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, Winnipeg Detachment, by September 1946. Loaned to main unit in Edmonton, 28 March 1947, for Operation Beetle. Took part in Operation Canon (medevac from Baffin Island) October 1947, operated by No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers Camp, Manitoba. Dropped supplies and medical team at Moffet Inlet on 4 October, re-supplied ground party during their trip to Artic Bay. Flew ground party and Canon J.H. Turner out of Moffet Inlet, off the ice, on 21/22 October 1947. Fitted with skiis in November 1947, for rescue work in the north that winter. Still with this Flight in summer of 1948, supported aircraft from this base taking part in exercises and demos in Ontario. With Transport Support School (Air) at CJATC, Rivers in January 1950, when it took part in Operation Sweetbriar at Whitehorse, Yukon. Back with 435 Squadron in October 1950. Still operational in February 1968. Served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, after integration but before serial was changed.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-May-23 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12953. 2019-08-20
   1975-August-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;112;ANS;104

Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK, serial number 42-93431. Assigned to Air Force Headquarters in 1944. With No. 164 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Moncton, NB in September 1945. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta, in August 1946. To Rockcliffe and Toronto, 16 August 1946. To Fargo to pick up ferry pilots, 21 August 1946. With Winnipeg Detachment by September 1946. Blew tire on landing at Winnipeg on 27 September 1946, no injuries. Dropped supplies to HB Co. supply ship Neophyte, frozen in near Chestefield Inlet, NWT, in October 1946. To Churchill, Manitoba most of October 1946, to fly US Army stores out of Coral Harbour, NWT. Towed gliders for the Army, December 1946. Accompanied Norseman 371 on medevac into NWT in January 1947. Delivered patient from Southhampton to Winnipeg, via Churchill, on 7 January 1947. With No. 112 (T) Flight on 12 June 1947, when it was detached to Norman Wells, NWT, to carry fuel for Photo Wing detachments operating in the area that summer. Took part in Operation Assinaboine, November 1950 (6 plane paradrop at Camp Shilo, Manitoba). At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. With No. 2 Air Navigation School at RCAF Station Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1954. Operated by No. 104 Communications and Calibration Flight at St. Hubert in 1957, equipped with "Carcinotron" ECM training equipment. In storage at the Technical Storage Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in late 1960s.
From 12954
Ex USAAF C-47A-20-DK serial number 42-93431. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when renumbered. Sold, to civil register as CF-OOW, with Atlas Aviation in 1971 and Air-Dale of Sault-St-Marie, Ontario in 1976. Reported registered as 8P-OOW in 1979, possibly for a short term lease to Tropical Air Services in Barbados. Back in Canada by 1980. Later C-FOOW, when sold by Air-Dale in 1988. With Great Northern Freight Forwarding Limited of Sault-St-Marie from 1988 to 1996. Registered to Enterprise Air Inc. of Oshawa, Ontario from 1996 to 2 June 2005. Latest Certificate of Registration issued to Triumph Airways Ltd. of Oshawa on 23 June 2005. Reported derelict at Gimli, Manitoba in 2006. Off the Canadian civil register by 2007.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-June-01 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12954. 2023-06-10
   1971-September-10 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;435;105;103

Ex USAAF C-47A-30-DK, serial number 43-48109. Operated by No. 168 (HT) Squadron, UK Detachment, c.1944 to 1946. Carried members of No. 424 (Aux) Squadron from Hamilton to Little Norway in summer 1948 or 1949 for summer camp. Operated by No. 2 Radar and Communications School, carried registration "VCDGA", still camouflaged. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, when it searched for missing Norseman between Churchill, Manitoba and Baker Lake, NWT, on 4 January 1954. With No. 105 (CR) Flight in 1956. Based at Namao in 1957, used for search and rescue, and medevacs. Written off after crashing at Greenwood on 9 August 1966, while with No. 103 (R) Unit. Remains used for fire and rescue training.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-July-26 Taken on Strength 2020-09-23
   1966-August-06 Accident Crash 2020-09-23
   1968-June-30 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 435;109

Ex USAAF serial number C-47A-30DK, 43-48110. Modified for photo survey work on 8 February 1947. Serving with No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton on 13 to 19 December 1951, when it carried out AIREV mission (delivery of Korean War wounded from Tacoma, Washington to hospitals across Canada). Served with No. 109 (KU) Composite Unit at Marville France, in 1959. Still operational February 1968.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-July-28 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12955. 2019-08-20
   1971-December-31 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;164;14;123

Ex US C-47A-30-DK 43-48107. Operated by No. 168 (HT) Squadron, UK Detachment, c.1944 to 1946. Delivered penicillin from UK to Poland in November 1945, after it had been delivered to the UK by Fortress 9205. With No. 164 (T) Squadron Edmonton Detachment in April 1946, when it delivered spare parts and tools to Nelson, BC for the u/s Dakota 964. Ferried by 435 Squadron crew from storage at Calgary, Alberta to Cartierville, Quebec on 24 January 1947. Operated by No. 14 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, 1947. With No. 123 (R) Unit at RCAF Station Sea Island in 1951. Later used by RCAF Station Cold Lake Base Flight.
From 12956
Ex US C-47A-30-DK 43-48107, ex RCAF 973. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To civil register as C-GWMY, registered to private owners in Calgary, Alberta in 1976, off register by 1982. Then exported, became N3748Y, reported stored at Las Vegas airport in 1987. To French register as F-WZIR, then to Philippines civil register as RP-C1354 (also reported as RP-C1355?)
last update: 2024-September-22
   1943-July-31 Ownership Transferred Transferred from USAF 2019-08-20
   1944-July-31 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12956. 2023-06-10
   1975-January-02 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 165;164;435

Ex USAAF C-47A-30-DK, serial number 43-48108. With No. 165 (T) Squadron in 1944. With No. 164 (T) Squadron detachment in Edmonton, Alberta in November and December 1945. Still with this Detachment in April 1946. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. Still with this unit on 21 April 1947, when it diverted to Grande Prairie with engine trouble. To civil register as CF-AAC, registered to Austin Airways on 27 April 1965. Crashed at Val D'Or 19 June 1970.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-August-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1964-August-17 Struck off Strength struck off, later sold by Crown Assets Disposal Corporation 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;164;109

Ex USAAF C-47A-30-DK, serial number 43-48742. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron in 1944. Loaned to No. 164 (T) Squadron Edmonton Detachment in early 1946 for support for Operation Musk-Ox, arriving at Edmonton from Rockcliffe on 3 February 1946. Operated by No. 6 Repair Depot, RCAF Station Trenton, post war (possibly by No. 129 AF Flight). Delivered pilots and pay to outlying storage facilities. Ferried to Europe by 435 Squadron crew 1 April 1954, for use by RCAF units in France. Probably converted to Mk. III standard, date unknown. Supported UN operations in Egypt. Crashed north of Cutigliano, Italy on 21 December 1958, en route from Pisa to Egypt. All 5 on board killed, including Flight Lieutenant J.H. Haugh.

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RCAF Accident Record
   1944-September-18 Taken on Strength 2020-09-23
   1959-July-29 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1958-December-21 KIFA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Clarence Reginald Burlock 2021-08-29
1958-December-21 KIFA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Samuel Robert Gray 2020-09-16
1958-December-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Hutchins Haugh 2021-09-21
1958-December-21 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Herbert Leah 2021-09-23
1958-December-21 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Michael James Sullivan 2020-09-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;ANS;429;402

Ex US C-47A-30-DK 43-48741. With No. 164 (HT) Squadron at Dartmouth after VE day. With Winnipeg detachment of this Squadron by December 1945, still there May 1946. Towing Hadrian gliders out of Winnipeg by June 1946. Still with Winnipeg Detachment when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. Compass swing performed 21 August 1946. With Winnipeg Detachment by September 1946. Paradrop at Carberry, Manitoba, in November 1946. Still with this unit on 21 March 1947, when it dropped supplies to Army, out of Churchill, Manitoba, and when written up by DOT for low flying over Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in April 1949. Last Dakota in camouflage with this unit, in September 1949. Took part in Operation Assiniboine, 14 November 1950 (6 plane paradrop at Camp Shilo, Manitoba). Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School, coded "M". Served with the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, after integration but before serial was changed.
From 12957
Ex US C-47A-30-DK 43-48741, ex RCAF 976. With No. 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. Visited Easterwood Field, College Station, Texas, 30 Apr 1978. With 402 Squadron, CFB Winnipeg, in 1982 and 1983. Escorted Spanish built Ju 52 from Florida to Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, early 1982. Seen at Hamilton air show, 1983. Had served over 45 years with Canadian military when struck off. Stored at AMDU, CFB Trenton by November 1990. To civil register as N29BF and converted to Basler BT-67 (Basler conversion no. 21). Was intended for Mali AF as TZ389, but crashed at Oshkosh Mar 17, 1997 following mid-air collision with Bonanza N3657A. Warren Basler was killed in this accident.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-September-19 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change To CAF as 12957 2023-06-02
   1990-January-17 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;12;412;424

Ex US C-47B-5-DK, serial number 43-48744. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Moncton, NB in September 1945. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in January 1946. Loaned to Edmonton Detachment to support Operation Musk-Ox, arrived in Edmonton on 8 March 1946. Operating from Yellowknife and Norman Wells by mid March. Back at Dartmouth by June 1946. Operated by No. 12 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, post war. Carried RCMP Band from Winnipeg to Ottawa in December 1946. Operated from Sea Island in 1948. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, Quebec, from Goose Bay), February 1952, while with 412 Squadron. Back with 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario in 1956, and at integration in February 1968. Served with 424 Squadron at CFB Trenton in late 1960s, after integration but before renumbering. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown.
From 12958
Ex US C-47B-5-DK 43-48744, ex RCAF 977. Also reported as Mk. III. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To civil register as CF-QHY, first registered to Bradley Air Services of Carp, Ontario in 1971. With Northwest Territorial Airways of Yellowknife in 1976. Later with Sioux Narrows Airways Limited of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1979 to 1993. To Points North Air Services Inc. of La Ronge, Saskatchewan from October 1993 to June 1994, then back to Sioux Narrows Airways. Now registered as C-FQHY, operated in support of Plummer's Lodge in NWT, in 1996. Registered to First Nations Transportation of Gimli, Manitoba from 2007 to 2009, then back to Sioux Narrows Airways. Latest Certificate of Registration issued on 21 December 2009
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-September-21 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change To CAF as 12958 2023-06-02
   1971-October-15 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 168

Ex USAAF C-47A-30-DK, serial number 43-48743. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron, UK detachment. Visited Pomigliano, Italy on 10 January 1945. Crashed at RAF Biggin Hill, UK on 25 January 1945, destroyed by post impact fire.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-September-25 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1945-January-25 Accident: 168 Squadron Loc: Diggin Hill Names: Andlin | Bain | Forbes | Harding | Hibbert | Malcolm | Marcotte
   1945-January-25 Accident Category A RAF Biggin Hill UK 2023-07-01
   1945-July-04 Struck off Strength struck off after crash, see comments 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;414;435;6OTU

Ex USAAF C-47B-15-DK, serial number 43-49380. With No. 164 (T) Squadron at RCAF Station Moncton, NB in September 1945. Moved with this Squadron to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in October 1945, still there in January 1946. Detached to Dorval for two weeks in May 1946, to fly seed potatos and fetilizer to an Army facility in Newfoundland. Back at Dartmouth by June 1946. With No. 414 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario in 1949. Took part in Operation Sundog II in February 1951 (airborne assault exercise out of Churchill, Manitoba), with 435 (T) Squadron. To Fairbanks, Alaska, via Whitehorse, June 1951. To Juneau, Alaska for 5 days in August 1951, to search for missing CPA airliner. Carried out AIREV mission (delivery of Korean War wounded from Tacoma, Washington to hospitals across Canada), 29 January to 4 February 1952; and 14 to 20 February 1952. Took part in Operation Bulldog (air drop of Army engineers and equipment, out of Fort Nelson, BC) in February 1954. Seen at Gatwick, UK on 14 November 1960. Used by No. 6 (S & R) Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in late 1960s. Still operational in February 1968. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. Renumbered 12959 3 June 1970.
From 12959
Pinocchio conversion, with CF-104 NASARR radar nose and operator's stations in cabin. Operated at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta. The original "Pinocchio", carried this name. Seen at Abbotsford air show, August 1986. Preserved at CFB Cold Lake. On display at inner gate at CFB Cold Lake by 2010.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-November-21 Taken on Strength 2020-09-23
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12959. 2019-08-20
   1989-April-14 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments:

Ex USAAF C-47B-15-DK, serial number 43-49383. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. Written off at Frobisher Bay (Iqaluit) NU 6 May 1952.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-November-21 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1952-May-20 Struck off Strength struck off, after crashing at Frobisher Bay, NWT, on 6 May 1952 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;412

Ex US C-47B-15-DK 43-49382. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron in 1945. With No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe or Uplands, Ontario, post war. Carried Major General Bernatchez from Quebec City to Ottawa summer of 1962. Still with 412 (T) Squadron at CFB Uplands after integration in February 1968.
From 12960
Ex US C-47B-15-DK 43-49382, ex RCAF 981. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To civil register as CF-QNF, registered to Bradley Air Services of Carp, Ontario in 1976. Later C-FQNF with Central Mountain Air Services of Smithers, BC. Still registered to them when it crashed on Thutade Lake, BC on 4 April 1991, probably after encountering a heavy snow squall. 6 of 7 occupants killed. Wreckage reported still submerged in lake in 2004.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-November-25 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change to CAF as 12960 2023-06-02
   1971-September-10 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;435

Ex USAAF C-47B-15-DK, serial number 43-49381. With No. 168 (HT) Squadron 1945. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta by December 1948. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1944-November-28 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1949-May-05 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 435

Ex USAAF C-47B-20-DK, serial number 43-49872. With No. 435(T) Squadron, RCAF Stations Edmonton and Namao, Alberta, c.1946 to 1960. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. Ferried to India by an RCAF crew, March/April 1963.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-January-17 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1963-March-12 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 414

Ex USAAF C-47B-20-DK, serial number 43-49874. With No. 414 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, for photo surveys, 1947 to 1950. Crashed at St. Hubert, Quebec on 28 July 1952, Category A damage. Became instructional airframe A597 on 26 August 1952. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-January-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1952-October-22 Classified Instructional CA A 597 2020-06-10
   1958-July-10 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 121;123

Ex USAAF C-47B-25-DK, serial number 44-76351. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. In use as staff transport at RCAF Station Rockcliffe from April 1945, including a flight to Mediterranean area that left Rockcliffe on 6 April 1945. Used as a target tug in 1951, with No. 121 (Comm) Flight. Struck a sea gull while landing at Tofino on 26 January 1952, broke windshield. Repaired on site, back in service on 30 January 1952. With No. 121 (Comm) Flight at RCAF Station Sea Island when it crashed on 23 January 1953. On a supply mission to USAF radar station at Puntzi Mountain, via Princeton and Dog Lake. Encountered freezing rain at altitude, came down at Boat Cove on Lasqueti Island (midaway between Sea Island and Powell River). 5 RCAF crew and one RCASC passenger killed. Wreckage not located until 5 February 1953.

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RCAF Accident Record
   1945-February-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1953-February-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, after being reported missing 2019-08-20
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Edward James Couchman 2024-05-01
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Alfred Wallace Duncan 2024-10-29
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Corporal Stanley Charles Herman 2021-01-12
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Lyon MacKenzie 2022-06-18
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Alexander Pollock 2022-01-19
1953-January-28 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Hector Andrew Joseph Turenne 2022-01-03

Known Squadron Assignments: 168

Ex USAAF C-47B-25-DK, serial number 44-76349. Damaged at Goose Bay on 24 December 1945, while being operated by No. 168 Squadron Prestwick detachment. Pilot had flown 22 out of the last 27 hours, and struck snow banks on edge of runway while landing in the dark and ground looped. Aircraft had accumulated some airframe ice, so pilot landed fast, flaps up, off centre line. Minor injuries to 3 flight crew, no injuries to 9 other occupants. Reported crashed at Goose Bay on 29 March 1946.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-February-16 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-November-12 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;112

Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-76783. Converted to Mk. III, date unknown. To No. 9 (T) Group in 1945. With No. 164 (T) Squadron Winnipeg Detachment in December 1945, when it dropped paratroopers at Carberry, Manitoba. Still there on 1 April 1946, when it dropped paratroops at Carberry. Delivered LORAN equipment to Baker Lake on 2 April 1946, for Operation Musk-Ox. With No. 164 (T) Squadron, probably Edmonton or Winnipeg detachment, when it supported Operation Muskox in spring of 1946. Towing Hadrian gliders between Winnipeg and Gimli from May 1946. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta, in August 1946. Performed paradrop at Camp Shilo, Manitoba on 15 August 1946. To Rockcliffe and return, later that month. With Winnipeg Detachment by September 1946. Delivered to Rockcliffe on 20 January 1947, for use by Photo Wing. With No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers by October 1947, coded "CA*D". Still with this Flight in summer of 1948, supported aircraft from Rivers taking part in exercises and demos in Ontario. Lost after gear up forced landing on ice in Hudsons Bay on 21 January 1949, while returning from dropping medicine at Arctic Bay, NWT. Crew and passengers survived, rescued by Norseman 371 on 23 January 1949.

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   1945-May-01 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1949-January-27 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 168;121

Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-76784. Used by Test and Development Establishment, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, dates unknown. To No. 9 (T) Group in 1945. Operated by No. 168 (HT) Squadron, UK Detachment, c.1945 to 1946. Operated by No. 121 (KU) Composite Unit at RCAF Station Comox, BC, dates unknown.
From 12961
Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-76784, ex RCAF 988. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sold, to civil register as CF-BKU, later CF-TTZ. Both these registrations cancelled by 1974.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-May-01 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12961 . 2019-08-20
   1971-December-31 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 14;414;435

Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-77134. Delivered to Rockcliffe on 22 January 1947, by crew from 435 Squadron, for use by Photo Wing. Operated by No. 14 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, 1947. With No. 414 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, for photo surveys, 1947 to 1950. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, by January 1951. Carried out AIREV mission (delivery of Korean War wounded from Tacoma, Washington to hospitals across Canada) September 1951, 13 to 19 December 1951. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, Quebec, from Goose Bay), February 1952. Took part in Operation Bulldog (air drop of Army engineers and equipment, out of Fort Nelson, BC) in February 1954. Reported scrapped in India, 14 March (or April?) 1969.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-June-19 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1963-March-12 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;112;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-77135. To No. 9 (T) Group in 1946. With No. 164 (T) Squadron Edmonton Detachment in February 1946. With Winnipeg Detachment in Masy 1946. Used by No. 164 (HT) Squadron at RCAF Station Edmonton, when this unit was renumbered No. 435 (T) Squadron in August 1946. With Winnipeg Detachment by 17 March 1947, when it went u/s at Regina, Saskatchewan with magneto problems. Repair assistance from CP Airlines. Blew tire on landing at Fort Nelson, BC on 29 May 1947, no further damage. Air dropped supplies at Cambridge Bay, NWT on 21 July 1947. Transferred to No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers Camp, Manitoba in February 1949, to replace 987 . Damaged on landing at Lethbridge, Alberta on 27 May 1949, while en route practice drop of PPCLI troops at Calgary. With Transport Support School (Air) at CJATC, Rivers in January 1950, when it took part in Operation Sweetbriar at Whitehorse, Yukon. With No. 1 Air Navigation School at RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in 1952/1953, coded "SJ". With the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg after integration, still with RCAF serial.
From 12962
Ex USAAF C-47B-30-DK, serial number 44-77135. With 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. Sold, to civil register as N99663, operated by Frontier Flying Services. Crashed on 30 October 1979 at Bettles Airport, Alaska. Collided with 3 parked aircraft while landing in a snow storm. No reported fatalities.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1945-June-19 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12962 . 2019-08-20
   1976-July-30 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;414;435

Was USAAF C-47B-45-DK no. 45-0956. With RCAF in the UK in late 1945 and early 1946. Carried medical supplies from Prestwick to Poland on at least two flights in January 1946, after the supplies had been delivered to Prestwick by 168 Squadron Fortresses and Liberators. With western detachments of No. 164 (T) Squadron in early 1946. With No. 435(T) Squadron, RCAF Stations Edmonton and Namao, Alberta, August 1946 to 1949. With No. 414 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, in 1949. Transferred (loan?) to Rockcliffe on 4 September 1950, from 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton. Took part in Operation Sundog II in February 1951 (airborne assault exercise out of Churchill, Manitoba). Carried VIPs on west coast tour in April 1951. To Cape Dorset, NWT on 5 to 7 March 1951. Carried out AIREV mission (delivery of Korean War wounded from Tacoma, Washington to hospitals across Canada), 2 to 5 December 1951. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, Quebec, from Goose Bay), February 1952. Took part in Operation Bulldog (air drop of Army engineers and equipment, out of Fort Nelson, BC) in February 1954. Now on display at RAAF Association Museum, Bull Creek WA.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1945-September-28 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1954-December-22 Struck off Strength 2020-09-23

Known Squadron Assignments: 512;48;435;436;ANS;429;402

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92419, ex RAF FZ658. To RCAF 2 June 1946, as 992. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Still operational in February 1968. With the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg after integration, still with RCAF serial.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK s/n 42-92419, ex RAF FZ658, ex RCAF 992. With 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. Seen at CFB Trenton in standard CAF bare metal finish in 1984, named "Manitoba Flyer". Probably named while with 402 Squadron at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Now preserved at RCAF Memorial Museum, Trenton, Ont., in camouflage and with original RAF serial number FZ658 marked.
last update: 2024-September-22
   unkown date Struck off Strength 2020-10-01
   1946-August-25 Taken on Strength from RCAF Overseas 2020-10-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12963. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 103;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK, serial number 42-92658, ex RAF KG448. With No. 103 (R) Unit at RCAF Station Greenwood, NS in 1952. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Still operational February 1968. With the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg after integration, still with RCAF serial. On civil register by 1976, as C-GNNA.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength from RCAF Overseas 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12964 2019-08-20
   1975-January-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

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Ex USAAF C-47A-25-DK, serial number 42-93552, ex RAF KG659. Stored post war at Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Ferried from Mossbank to No. 10 Repair Depot at Calgary on 15 July 1948, still with RAF serial marked. Served with RCAF Station Goose Bay Station Flight, when it took part in Operation Loup Garou (airborne assault exercise on Sept Isle, Quebec) February 1954. Taken on strength by Indian Air Force on 7 November 1962. Reported stored at Sular, India in 1983.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1962-October-30 Transferred to Indian AF, their registration BJ762. Also reported as 6 November 1962? 2023-06-02
   1962-November-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 12;412

Ex USAAF C-47B-35-DK, serial number 44-77020, ex RAF KN655. With No. 12 (Com) and No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe or Uplands, Ontario by April 1947. VIP interior, used for many VIP trips with Canadian and foreign dignitaries. Typical trips: General Revers, French Army C.of S., Ottawa to Washington on 8 April 1949; Governor General Viscount Alexander to Toronto and return on 30 April 1949; Governor General on Maritimes tour August 1952; Prime Minister of Nigeria to Ottawa on 23 September 1961. Still operational as VIP transport February 1968, still with 412 Sdn. To VIP flight at Washington, DC on 1 April 1968. Note: some sources identify this aircraft as ex KN665, which was in the RCAF, but was sold in 1947.
from 12965
Built in 1944 as 44-77020. To RAF in UK as Dakota IV KN655 via RAF Montreal Jun 9, 1945 with glider pick-up fitted. RAF UK 15Jun45. 512 Sqn RAF 07Oct45. 436 Sqn RAF 10Mar46. To Canada Jun 2, 1946. To RCAF Aug 1, 1945 as 1000. With 412 Sqn RCAF Uplands, Ontario. Renumbered 12965 in 1970. VU 32 Sqn RCAF, Shearwater, Nova Scotia. Sold off from the RCAF, it became C-GGJH in 1975 and C-GSCC in 1979. It was sold to France as F-GIAZ in 1991, soon becoming F-GIDK. Still current in 2017 in France as F-AZOX.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-01 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-03 Serial Change Became CAF 12965. 2019-08-20
   1975-June-18 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

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This serial number marked on No. 1 Air Division Dakota that visited Gatwick in 1964, see photo in Volume 1 of "Air Transport in Canada", page 441. Still carried this mark when it visited Gatwick on 21 April 1961. Believed to actually be 12911, ex KN291.
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Ex USAF C-47A-40-DL serial number 42-24000, ex RAF FD941. To UK civil register post war, as G-AGHO. Acquired from US civil register, was N9993F. Based at RCAF Station Vancouver in 1963. In storage at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment, CFB Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at Integration. Sold, to Canadian civil register as CF-AAM. Registered to Austin Airways of Timmins, Ontario in 1976, as a DC-3C. Still with this airline when it was purchased by Air Ontario, their registration (as a DC3C-S1C3G) cancelled on 17 January 1989. Certificate of Registration, as C-47A, issued to Central Mountain Air of Smithers, BC on 20 February 1991 as C-FAAM, cancelled in 1993. Reported as scrapped, not confirmed.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1951-May-30 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1968-December-07 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 109;ANS

Ex US C-47A-1-DL serial number 42-23324. To RAF as Dakota III FD824 Apr 2, 1943. Registered as G-AGHF with BOAC May 10, 1943. Operated for RAF as ODZZ. Sold to North West Airlines (IOM) Jun 21, 1949, then to A J Leeward Inc. on 12 March 1950, and briefly registered N9994F March 1950. With No. 109 (K) Unit at CFB Lahr, Germany in mid and late 1960s. Seen at Northolt, UK in September 1966.
From 12966
Ex US C-47A-1-DL 42-23324, ex RAF FD824, ex RCAF 10911 . Used by Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba, noted there as a 3(SC)FP. In storage at Saskatoon by March 1975. Acquired by Basler Flight Services and registered N46877, then by Flager Aircraft. Operated by Air Colombia as HK-3293 since 13 December 1982. Reported airworthy in Columbia in 2006.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1951-May-30 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Renumbered as CF 12966, which see. 2019-08-20
   1976-July-30 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 436;424;412;4OTU

Ex USN R4D-1 BuNo 01985. To US Navy Norfolk 17 June 1942. Used by VR-1; VR-7 from 21 August 1943; NATS from 1 November 1943; VR-7 from January 1944; VRF-2 from July 1945; VRF-3 from 11 March 1946; ComFair WC from 27 March 1946; struck off 30 September 1946. To civilian registry as NC4806N (A J Leeward) for resale to RCAF on 11 June 1951. With No. 436 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Dorval, Quebec in 1950s. Took part in Operation Loup Garou (airborne assault on Sept Isles, Quebec) February 1954. Possibly seen at Gatwick, UK in RCAF markings in late 1965, misidentified by UK spotter as "10972". Served with 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, dates unknown. Served with 424 Squadron at CFB Trenton in late 1960s.
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Ex USN R4D-1 BuNo 01985, ex RCAF 10912 . With No. 4 Operational Training Unit at CFB Trenton, Ontario. To civil registry as CF-BKV (Atlantic Central Airlines) in November 1973, then Ontario Central Airlines by 1976. Later registered as C-FBKV. Crashed at Pickle Lake, Ontario 12 May 1977 while on lease to Patricia Air Services. Engine fire on takeoff, landed gear down in lake near airport, nosed over and sank. 1 of 2 crew killed.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1951-June-11 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1971-December-31 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS;429

Ex USAF C-47A-65-DL serial number 42-100523. Sold surplus by US in March 1946 after a ground accident at Munich, Germany, to US civil register as NC661, also on Columbian civil register as HK-501, then N3932C before being purchased by RCAF. With the Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba after integration.
From 12968
Ex US C-47A-65-DL s/n 42-100523. Operated by Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba. With 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. To Canadian register as C-GWYY, registered to C.R. Wilkinson of Calgary, Alberta. To US register as N59316, registered on 11 December 1985. Registered to McNeely Charter Service of West Memphis, Arkansas when destroyed while attempting an engines out landing on a sandbar in the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee on 6 November 1997. Fuel starvation and/or poor fuel management suspected, first engine quit in cruise, second engine quit a few minutes later while making emergency approach to Memphis. Both engines restarted briefly, then failed again. Deregistered on 28 September 1998, reported with 24,516 hours airframe time at that time.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1951-June-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Became CF 12968 2019-08-20
   1975-August-25 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 412;436;4OTU

Ex USAF C-47B-30-DK serial number 44-76539, to USAAF Mar 16, 1945. To RAF in UK as Dakota IV KN441 via RAF Montreal Mar 30, 1945. RAF UK 30Mar45. 525 Sqn RAF 01Oct45. Med M East RAF 12Oct45. 204 Sqn RAF 13May48. SOC Sep 5, 1950. To RCAF as 10914 15Jan52. With No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, coded "AO*F". Later with No. 436 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Dorval, PQ. Took part in Operation Loup Garou (airborne assault on Sept Isles, PQ) February 1954, unit unknown. With No. 4 (T) Operational Training Unit at CFB Trenton, Ontario after Integration. Reported as scrapped shortly after sale, not confirmed.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1952-January-15 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-April-13 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: AETE

Ex USAAF 44-77208 C-47B-40-DK (MSN 16792/33540) to USAAF Jun 23, 1945. To RAF as Dakota IV KP238 via RAF Montreal Jun 25, 1945. RAF UK 01Jul45. 10 Sqn RAF 10Aug45. ACSEA 12Sep45. 22 MU RAF 30Dec47. 107 MU RAF 11Nov48. East Africa Comm Fit 14Oct49. 107 MU RAF 20Feb50. SOC scrap 05Sep50.
Ex USAAF C-47B-35-DK 44-77208, ex RAF KP238. Rebuilt and registered to Babb (Canada) Ltd 18Dec51 as CF-GBI for ferry flight to Canada. To RCAF as 10915 12Apr52. Operated by Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at RCAF Cold Lake, Alberta.
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Reserialled as 12969 Jun70. With Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment at CFB Uplands, Ontario after Integration. To civil register as CF-ADB. Air Dale Ltd, Sault Ste Marie registered 08Aug73. With Laurentian Air Services at Dorval, Quebec in 1976. Later with Air-Dale / Norontair 1978, registration cancelled in 1991. WFU 22Jan91.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1952-April-12 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1973-May-18 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

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Ex USAAF C-47B-25-DK serial number 44-76511. To RAF as Dakota IV KN417 March 1945. Sold as scrap, became CF-GBH for ferry flight to Canada. To RCAF 10916 5June 1952. In storage at CF Technical Services Detachment at CFB Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when sold. Sold by Canadian Forces, to US civil register as N6677, then CF-CTA with North Canada Air of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan from 1972 to at least 1976, then C-FCTA. To US register as N142JR. Registered 15 June 2006 as a DC3C-S1C3G, to TAC Air Services Inc of Gimli, Manitoba as CF-FTR. Cancelled on 23 November 2006, to FNT First Nations Transport of Winnipeg on 28 November 2006, still current December 2006.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1952-June-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1968-August-07 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: CEPE;448;AETE

Ex USAF C-47B-20-DK serial number 43-49809. Sold as scrap by RAF in 1950, purchased by RCAF in 1952, registration CF-GBJ being applied for ferry flight from Egypt to Canada. With Central Experimental and Proving Establishment Suffield Detachment in June 1953. With 448 (Test) Squadron at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta in 1960s.
Renumbered 12970. With Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment at CFB Uplands, Ontario after Integration.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1952-June-14 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Became CF 12970 2019-08-20
   1971-December-31 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments:

Ex USAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-100839, ex RAF FZ665. May have been operated by RCAF for a period with RAF serial. TOC RCAF 20 July 1946. To RCAF 10918.
From 12971
Ex USAF C-47A-DK s/n 42-108839, ex RAF and RCAF FZ665, ex RCAF 10918. Declared surplus on 4 March 1971. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sold to Atlas Aviation on 13 September 1971, registered as CF-OOX. To Kenting Atlas Aviation on 12 February 1973. to Kenting Aviation in 1975. Registration cancelled January 1976. Wings may be in storage with Buffalo Airways at Red Deer, Alberta, being used for spares.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Became CF 12971 2019-08-20
   1971-September-10 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 31

42-5651 USAAF 18-01-43 C-47-DL FD775 RAF - Royal Air Force 31-03-43. W/O 08.02.44. Douglas Dakota I FD775 was shot down by a Japanese fighter whilst he was on a supply dropping sortie over Arakan, Myanmar.

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-February-08 KIA RAF Squadron Leader James Arthur Walker DFC & Bar 2023-07-17

Known Squadron Assignments: 31

41-32902 (MSN 9128) to USAAF Feb 27, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I FD811. 31 Sqn, India May 31, 1943. Crashed Jan 28, 1944, Khargpur, India.

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1944-January-28 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Donald Ashley Thompson 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 267

32906 (MSN 9132) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 25, 1943 as Dakota I FD815 - 267 Sqdn, Middle East May 21, 1943. Crashed 3m NW El Aouina, Tunisia Jul 11, 1943. The aircraft was returning from dummy parachute dropping mission over Sicily when it crashed.

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1943-July-11 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Gowan Vernon Gibson 2023-08-06
1943-July-11 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harry Grant Spencer 2023-08-06

Known Squadron Assignments: 117

42-23320 USAAF 09-03-43 C-47A-1-DL RAF - Royal Air Force FD820 01-04-43. W/O 14.02.45. The Dakota III crashed while on a supply drop for the British 14th army. The airplane departed Hathazari Airfield, Bangladesh along with three others at 07:08 hours. Poor weather (hill ranges covered with extensive cumulus clouds) forced three aircraft to return to base. FD820 continued but failed to return. The aircraft was later found to have crashed 19 km NE of Lunglei, India 4(4).

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1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Deckland Archibald Bayley 2024-11-09
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lloyd Elmefi Long 2023-07-15
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Everett Elroy Newell 2023-07-15
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Navigator (Bomber) John William Slater 2023-07-15
1945-February-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Ronald Thomson 2023-07-15

Known Squadron Assignments: 31

42-23382 USAAF 18-03-43 C-47A-15-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD838 31-05-43. W/O 15.08.43. The Dakota III went missing at unk loc within Myanmar ?(?).

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1943-August-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Edwin Swayne Brenton 2024-11-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 267

42-23456 USAAF 01-04-43 C-47A-20-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD850 26-04-43. W/O 25.03.44. The Dakota III crashed 6,5 km W of Foggia, Italy ?(?)

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-March-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lester Cameron Graham 2021-08-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 267

42-23549 USAAF 20-04-43 C-47A-25-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD865 10-05-43. W/O 19.09.44. The Dakota III crashed into sea off Capo Carbonara, Italy 16(16).

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1944-September-19 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles Passey 2021-08-18
1944-September-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clinton Richard Ryerse 2021-08-05
1944-September-19 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Gordon Stables 2022-01-03

Known Squadron Assignments: 216

42-23550 USAAF 22-04-43 C-47A-25-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD866 13-05-43. W/O 03.06.44. The Dakota III was flying on a routine transport flight from Biskra Airport, Algeria (BSK) to Oujda-Les Angades Airport, Morocco (OUD). It left Biskra at 06:34Z and crashed into the side of a mountain at a height of 5,200 feet at approximately 08:55Z. The mountain top was covered in drifting cloud at the time of the crash. The aircraft was climbing steeply when it crashed 19 km SE of Mostaganem, Algeria 16(17)..

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1944-June-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer Frederick Henry Theodore Whittard 2023-07-15
1944-June-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John St Clair Wootton 2023-07-15

Known Squadron Assignments: 512

42-23759 USAAF 01-06-43 C-47A-30-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD899 14-06-43. W/O 06.10.43. The Dakota III hit a balloon cable in hazy conditions and crashed at the Bernhard Baron Pavilion, Regents Park, London, UK. 9(9).

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1943-October-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Theodore Myroslaw Hawryluk 2022-10-30

Known Squadron Assignments: 512

42-23763 USAAF 01-06-43 C-47A-30-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD903 16-06-43. W/O 25.12.43. The Dakota III crashed into Atlantic Ocean near Spain en route Lyneham RAF Station to Gibraltar RAF Station 4(4).

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1943-December-25 KIA RAF Flying Officer Richard Lloyd Acton Hammill 2021-08-09
1943-December-25 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Cyril Frederick Dean Steel 2021-07-22

Known Squadron Assignments: 435

42-23820 USAAF 12-06-43 C-47A-35-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD915 01-07-43. W/O 11.02.45. The Dakota III went missing during supply drop to Budalin near Budalin over Myanmar ?(?). Served with No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in India, coded "O".

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1945-February-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Gray Burton 2023-08-01
1945-February-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ward Douglas Coulson 2024-05-04
1945-February-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Stanley Maxwell Duncan 2024-10-29
1945-February-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Andrew Eden 2023-08-01
1945-February-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ralph Henry Holtan 2023-08-01

Known Squadron Assignments: 31;62

C-47A-35-DL 42-23829 (MSN 9691) to USAAF Jun 14, 1943. To RAF as Dakota III FD924 Jul 3, 1943. 31 Sqdn RAF. 62 Sqdn RAF, India Nov 5, 1943. Missing Nov 8, 1944 40 mi SW of Mawlaik, presumed shot down by enemy fighters.

FD924 was lost November 8, 1944 in Burma on a routine supplies drop to the British Army. The aircraft and the bodies of the crew were found in 1954.

This is detailed in letters to the crew's families from the air ministry. A copy of a letter from the British Air ministry to RCAF Canada which details the events can be found in the personnel file for pilot John MacArthur Taylor. The crash site is stated to be 23° 19' N by 94° 06' E.

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1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Knowlton Douglass 2024-10-28
1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Michael Walter Warren Duley 2024-10-29
1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Alexander Maclaren 2023-07-21
1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John McArthur Taylor 2023-07-21

Known Squadron Assignments: 31

42-24008 USAAF 17-07-43 C-47A-40-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD949 12-08-43. SOC Cat E 11.11.44.
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1944-December-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Kenneth Armstrong 2024-11-03

Known Squadron Assignments: 62

42-24011 USAAF 14-07-43 C-47A-40-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FD952 13-08-43. W/O 25.04.44. Three Dakota transport aircraft crashed while flying supplies from Imphal to Sapam: FD952 (9873), FL602 (c/n 12012), and KG462 (c/n 12497). Two of these were claimed to have been shot down by Japanese ace H. Takiguchi 100 km SW of Imphal, India 4(4).

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1944-April-25 KIA RAF Flight Sergeant William Howard Higgins 2023-08-01
1944-April-25 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Rae Porter 2021-08-13

Known Squadron Assignments: 194

42-24353 USAAF 09-09-43 C-47A-60-DL. RAF - Royal Air Force FL540 09-09-43. W/O 11.04.44. The Dakota III crashed at Aberdeen Airstrip, Indore, Myanmar ?(?).

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1944-April-11 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Neal Bridges 2024-11-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 216

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92141 (MSN 11909) to USAAF Sep 11, 1943. To RAF as Dakota III FL549 for MAAF Dec 13, 1943. 216 Sqdn RAF Middle East Dec 15, 1943. Crashed on takeoff at Aberdeen Airstrip, Indore, Burma May 1, 1944.

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1944-May-01 KIA RAF Flight Sergeant William Frank Mitchell 2021-08-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 31;216;62

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92146 (MSN 11914) to USAAF Sep 10, 1943. To RAF in India as Dakota III FL554 Dec 17, 1943. 31 Sqdn RAF. 216 Sqdn RAF. 62 Sqn RAF Missing from supply dropping mission Nov 8, 1944.

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1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Bruce Sherwood Corbett 2024-04-15
1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Michael Hugh Delaney 2024-10-31
1944-November-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Michael Edmund Gallagher 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92227. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDM in 1945. Later to US civil register as N9214R, N165J, and N337AF. Registered as N123DZ in 1995, as a DC3C-S1C3G, to South Florida Aircraft Leasing of Cooper City, Florida.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1943-December-22 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92230. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) as CF-TDN, 1946. Later to Frontier Airlines, registered as N4990E.
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-June-25 Accident: 6 Operational Training Unit Loc: Comox British Columbia Names: Powell | Rowbottom
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 353

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92235 to USAAF Oct 30, 1943. To RAF in UK as Dakota III FL603. 512 Sq Feb 9, 1944. ACSEA 353 Sq Apr 7, 1944. Broke up in cloud and crashed 25 mi N of Bombay, India Aug 17, 1945.

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1945-August-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Samuel Driffield Woodman 2021-07-06

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92247. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDO, 1946. Later to South African civil register as ZS-DRJ, first registered there on 21 August 1963. Owner is 2000 is reported to be C.J. Muller of Johannesburg.
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92248. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Converted to synthetic trainer on 1 March 1944. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDP, 1945. Later to US civil register as N9184R, then N166J. Off US register by 2008
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   1944-January-04 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92258. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC, coded "DM". To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDQ, 1945. Later to Frontier Airlines, registered as N4995E.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-11 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92261. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDR, 1945. Later to US civil register as N3773.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-11 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1945-November-23 Accident: 124 Ferry Squadron Loc: Regina Saskatchewan Names: Burrill | Glasier | MacDonald | Muskatov | Nelson
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92280. To Eastern Air Command. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School.

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   1944-January-15 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-June-19 Struck off Strength 2020-09-24
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Vernon Rupert Ducklow AFM 2024-10-29
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Daniel Levy 2022-02-17
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Richard Brockwell Lowe 2022-02-17
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer James Leonard Norris 2022-02-17
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William James Sealey 2022-02-17
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Huycke Watt 2023-06-23
1946-January-19 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Wood DFC 2023-06-30

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92294. To No. 32 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC. Went missing at sea on night flight, 17 March 1944. Took off at 19:40, last radio contact at 21:58. All 3 crew never found: pilots Pilot Officer J.B. Murphy, RAFVR and Sgt. D. Oliver, RAF; and wireless operator Sgt. R.A. Hodge, RNZAF, veteran of 17 operations with Bomber Command. Two oxygen cylinders of a type used on this aircraft were later recovered in the Pearse Island Group, northern Vancouver Island.

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last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-31 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-June-12 Struck off Strength Written off, after going missing, see comments; NB: SOS date changed from 06 Nov/44 to 12 June/45 per Griffin source material. 2020-09-28
1944-March-17 KIFA RNZAF Flight Sergeant Roy Alexander Hodge 2023-02-07
1944-March-17 KIFA RAFVR Pilot Officer John Benedict Murphy 2023-02-13
1944-March-17 KIFA RAFVR Sergeant Douglas Oliver 2023-02-15

Known Squadron Assignments: 62

42-92297 (MSN 12082) to USAAF Nov 17, 1943. To RAF as FZ548 at RAF Montreal Dec 15, 1943. 512 Sqdn RAF UK Jan 25, 1944. With Air Command, South East Asia 15Apr44; No.62 Squadron, Agartala, India. Detailed on 11th June 1944 to carry Army reinforcements to Imphal, India, the aircraft failed to arrive at its destination. The crashed aircraft was located in the Karimganj (Silchar) area in the province of Assam. It was in a ploughed paddy field and was fully immersed in water at a depth of 10 feet. All the crew were killed together with the 23 Army personnel on board.

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last update: 2024-July-20
1944-June-11 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Edward Jones DFM 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 271

42-92301 (MSN 12086) to USAAF Nov 22, 1943. To RAF as FZ552 at RAF Montreal Dec 17 1943. 271 Sqdn RAF Feb 14, 1944. Crashed at Collingbourne, Wiltshire, UK during glider-towing exercise Apr 17, 1944.

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last update: 2024-July-20
1944-April-17 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class James Angus Brown 2021-08-28

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92306, delivered to USAAF on 25 November 1943. To RAF as FZ557. Delivered to Canada on 27 December 1943. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Eastern Air Command, dates unknown. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDS on 25 July 1946. Later with Quebecair as CF-QBF. Destroyed in hanger fire at Rimouski, Quebec on 13 July 1958.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92307, delivered to USAAF on 27 November 1943. To RAF as FZ558, ntu. Delivered to Canada on 25 December 1943 as FZ558. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. At No. 22 Sub Repair Depot, Sea Island in October 1945. Operated by No. 22 (SR) Unit, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDT on 28 September 1946. Later on US register as N7709, this registration revoked on 22 July 1970.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-January-06 Accident: 32 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bacon | Vincent
   1946-March-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 512;117

42-108825 (MSN 12098) to RAF as Dakota III FZ563. RAF Montreal Dec 22, 1943. UK No. 512 Sq Jan 6, 1944.
ACSEA Apr 18, 1944. With No. 117 Squadron. Written off Jun 1, 1944 Myitkyina, Burma, 7 lost. SOC Jun 16, 1944.

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last update: 2024-July-20
1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Clare Pymer McWilliams 2021-08-17
1944-June-01 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harold Gordon Tackaberry 2021-07-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU;6OTU;165

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92319, delivered to USAAF on 1 December 1943. To RAF as FZ571. Delivered to Canada on 4 January 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Still with this unit when it became No. 6 OTU at Comox. With No. 165 (T) Squadron at Edmonton, Alberta in July 1945. Loaned to No. 2 Technical Signals Unit at Penhold, Alberta for prototyping work that month. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDU on 30 October 1946. Later to Frontier Airlines, as N4991E. Still on US register in 1982, which time it had been converted to turboprops. Reported with The Parachute Center in Lodi, California, date unknown.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-07 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-21 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92322, delivered to USAAF on 26 November 1943. To RAF as FZ575. Delivered to Canada on 25 December 1943. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDV on 12 June 1946. Later registrations reported as N9123R in the US, and OB-R-810 in Peru.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92323, delivered to USAAF on 26 November 1943. To RAF as FZ576. Delivered to Canada on 27 December 1943. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Destroyed when it flew into high ground 4 miles north of Port Hardy, BC at 00:30 on 20 April 1944, while overshooting at Port Hardy Airport. Both pilots killed, radio operator found wandering in the woods next day. Crash report dated 23 May 1944, this may be when wreckage was located. Wreckage reported still in place several years later.

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last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-05 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-April-20 Accident: 32 Operational Training Unit Loc: Port Hardy Names: Moss | Talbot | Wardlow
   1944-August-14 Struck off Strength Struck off after crash, see comments 2019-08-20
1944-April-20 KIFA RAFVR Pilot Officer James Melville Talbot 2023-02-08
1944-April-20 KIFA RAFVR Pilot Officer Tom Story Wardlow 2023-02-08

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47 serial number 42-92328, delivered to USAAF on 30 November 1943. To RAF as FZ581. Delivered to Canada on 8 January 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Crashed into sea off Patricia Bay on 26 February 1944, after fluid sprayed on windshield, instruments, and pilots face.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-11 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-February-26 Accident: 32 Operational Training Unit Loc: Patricia Bay Names: Gwinnell | Spinks
   1944-April-17 Struck off Strength Struck off after crash, see comments 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU;6OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-108829, delivered to USAAF on 4 December 1943. To RAF as FZ583. Delivered to Canada on 9 January 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Missing on 27 June 1945, by which time the unit had been renumbered as No. 6 OTU. 3 RAF crew still missing.

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   1944-January-15 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1945-June-26 Accident: 6 Operational Training Unit Loc: Names: Baysten | Serfleet | Wilton
   1945-August-23 Struck off Strength Struck off after going missing, see comments 2019-08-20
1945-June-26 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer J O Bayston 2024-11-09
1945-June-26 KIFA RAF Sergeant D V Sorfleet 2021-05-08
1945-June-26 KIFA RAF Sergeant C A J Wilton 2021-05-08

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92348, delivered to USAAF on 31 December 1943. To RAF as FZ584. Delivered to Canada on 6 February 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDW on 31 July 1946. Later to Frontier Airlines as N4992E. Reported on Philippines register, no details.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-February-18 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 31

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92349. To RAF as FZ585. Crashed near Shongsphel, Burma Jul 31, 1944. Found on Mar 3, 1945.

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1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1 James Bicknell 2024-11-12
1944-July-05 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Jack Manning 2021-08-14

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92350, delivered to USAAF on 31 December 1943. To RAF as FZ586. Delivered to Canada on 8 February 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDX on 30 June 1946. To Frontier Airlines as N4996E in 1958, named "Sunliner Kansas City". Registered to J. Rodriguez of Key West, Florida in 1978.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-February-18 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 117

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92354. To RAF as FZ590 12 Jan 44. Written off 27 Mar 1944. The Dakota III crashed 20 km NE of Indaw, Myanmar ?(?).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-March-27 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Lennox O'Neil 2021-08-17
1944-March-27 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Francis Arthur Pfeffer 2021-08-14

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92359, delivered to USAAF on 6 December 1943. To RAF as FZ596. Delivered to Canada on 8 January 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Lost at sea on 22 August 1944.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-11 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-August-22 Accident: 6 Operational Training Unit Loc: At Sea Names: Bazley | Cameron | Croft
1944-September-20 Accident: 6 Operational Training Unit Loc: At Sea Names: Bazley | Cameron | Croft
   1944-October-09 Struck off Strength Struck off after going missing, see comments 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 273

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92360. To RAF as FZ597 24 Jan 1944. W/O 04 Aug 1944. The Dakota III broke up in the air and crashed after entering a cumulonimbus cloud 17.5 km NE of Mohavia, India 18(18).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-August-04 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Frederick Grant Jackson 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 62

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92361. To RAF as FZ598 19 Jan 1944. W/O 23 June 1944. The Dakota III crashed during takeoff from Comilla Airport, Bangladesh (CLA) ?(?).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-June-23 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Allan Fraser 2022-08-24

Known Squadron Assignments: 194

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92362. To RAF as FZ599 20 Jan 1944. W/O 05 May 1944. The Dakota III hit hill near Ampi, Assam, India 4(4).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-May-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clare Kenneth Thain 2021-07-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 194

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92363. To RAF as FZ600 24 Jan 1944. W/O 19 June 44. The Dakota III took off from Agartala-Singerbhil Airport, India (IXA) with 600lbs of supplies for relieved Kohima garrison. Weather was bad at the Drop Zone, and in attempting to get into a dropping position, the airplane flew into a cloud-covered hill near Kohima, Myanmar 4(4).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-June-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Burton Roxborough Christie 2024-02-17
1944-June-19 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class George Wellington Hansford 2023-07-18
1944-June-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Esley Tattrie 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 512

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92372. To RAF as FZ610 22 Jan 1944. W/O 26 July 1944. The Dakota III flew into high ground near Tealing, Angus, Scotland, U.K. ?(?).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-July-27 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Walter James Mattocks 2021-08-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 575

42-92384 USAAF 27-12-43 C-47A-1-DK. RAF - Royal Air Force FZ623 22 Jan 1944. SCR b/u for spares at London-Gatwick 24 Apr 1947.
last update: 2024-September-22
1944-April-20 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Hubert Francis Delhaye 2024-10-12

Known Squadron Assignments: 45

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92393 27-12-43. To RAF - Royal Air Force FZ632 09 Jan 1944. W/O 17 Jan 1944. The Dakota III crashed 24 km off Azores Islands, Portugal into Atlantic Ocean on delivery flight ?(?).

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-January-17 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Davidson Thomson 2023-02-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92395, delivered to USAAF on 24 December 1943. To RAF as FZ634. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Reported nosed over on landing at Medford, Oregon on 6 January 1944, possibly still on RAF books at that time. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDY on 1 May 1946. Later to US civil register as N4997E. Later to Frontier Airlines as N4997E. Written off in Newfoundland on 12 March 1964.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-May-25 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK serial number 42-92396, delivered to USAAF on 24 December 1943. To RAF as FZ635. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Nosed over on landing at Patricia Bay on 3 March 1944. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDZ on 1 May 1946. To Department of Transport (Transport Canada) as CF-DTV on 11 January 1961. Remarked as C-FDTV in 1974. With Millardair of Mississauga, Ontario by 1976. Last Certificate of Registration issued to Millardair on 23 April 1990, this registration cancelled and aircraft removed from register on 18 September 1991. Later registered in Mexico to TANSA (Transportes A�reos de Nayarit SA) as XA-RZF. Registered to California-Pacifico in December 2005 as XA-UDY.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1944-January-15 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1944-March-03 Accident: 32 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Robson | Shaw
   1945-December-05 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 194

Ex USAAF C-47-1-DK s/n 42-92405. To RAF as FZ644 19-01-44. W/O 24.08.44. The Dakota III was operated on a mission to carry out a supply and map drop for army forces. The monsoon was very active in the area and when the aircraft arrived over the drop zone, it was covered with thick low lying cloud. The crew stayed in the area until 19:00 hours when they were able to drop the supplies. Although the night was fast approaching they attempted to deliver the maps, and flying over difficult mountainous terrain the aircraft crashed into a hillside 45 km NE of Imphal, India 6(6)

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last update: 2024-September-22
1944-August-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leonard Francis Fletcher 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 437

Ex USAAF 42-92416 C-47A-5-DK delivered 31-12-43.
To RAF - FZ655 28-01-44. Operated by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK in fall of 1944. Crashed near St. Pol sur Mer, a suburb of Dunkirk, while en route from Antwerp to the UK. 3 fatalities, including nurse LACW Margaret Campbell, WAAF.

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last update: 2024-September-22

1944-October-24 KIA WAAF Leading Aircraft Woman Margaret Campbell 2024-03-27
1944-October-24 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Sidney Alfred Gumbrell 2024-03-27
1944-October-24 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Walter Lockwood 2024-03-27
1944-October-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Douglas Otto Schneider 2024-03-27
1944-October-24 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Herman Soper 2024-03-27

Known Squadron Assignments: 164;435;ANS;102

Ex USAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-100839, ex RAF FZ665. May have been operated by RCAF for a period with RAF serial. TOC RCAF 20 July 1946. To RCAF 10918. With No. 164 (T) Squadron Edmonton Detachment in December 1945. With No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Edmonton, Alberta, August 1946. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. With No. 102 (C&R) Flight in 1957.

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Ex USAF C-47A-DK s/n 42-108839, ex RAF and RCAF FZ665, ex RCAF 10918. Declared surplus on 4 March 1971. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sold to Atlas Aviation on 13 September 1971, registered as CF-OOX. To Kenting Atlas Aviation on 12 February 1973. to Kenting Aviation in 1975. Registration cancelled January 1976. Wings may be in storage with Buffalo Airways at Red Deer, Alberta, being used for spares.

last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-December-17 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 271

Ex USAAF 42-92446 C-47A-5-DK delivered 24 Jan 1944. To RAF - FZ667 02-02-44. Written off 07 June 1944. The Dakota III was hit by flak during Normandy invasion & crashed N of Caen, France 4(4).

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last update: 2024-July-20
1944-June-07 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Lorne Cheatham Flather 2023-10-04
1944-June-07 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class William Henry Oakley 2021-08-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 437;ANS

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92452, delivered to USAAF on 31 January 1944. To RAF as FZ669. Delivered to Canada on 16 June 1946. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School, coded "Q". To Canadian Forces in February 1968. With Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba when renumbered.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92452, ex RAF FZ669. Was used in Operation Market Garden by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF, before transferring to RCAF ownership. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Sold to Aero Traders of Winnipeg, as C-GCXE, in 1976. Registration cancelled in 1984. Later reported as HI-502 in 1987, and then HH-CMG. Later sold in US, registered N688EA to Express Airways of Florida in 1993, converted to turboprops. Last registered owner was Cameron and Stall Inc. of California. Reported preserved, displayed at Al Mahatta Museum in Sharjah, UAE, marked as G-AMZZ, but this may be ex KN648, via the Indian Air Force
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Became CAF serial number 12943 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS;429;402

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92454, delivered to USAAF on 13 February 1944. To RAF as FZ671. Delivered to Canada on 23 June 1946. With Instrument Check Pilot School, dates unknown. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. To Canadian Forces in February 1968. With Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba when renumbered. Note that this aircraft is restored to Second World War markings, including serial FZ671, and is on display at the Air Force Museum at CFB Comox, BC.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92454, ex RAF FZ671. With No. 429 Squadron at CFB Winnipeg. Seen at CFB Trenton, Ontario, 1982, carried name "Quarter Time". Probably with No. 402 Squadron at that time. Marked in semi-correct WW2 colours and RAF serial in 1989, for type retirement ceremony. Stored at AMDU, CFB Trenton by November 1990. Later to Museum at CFB Comox, BC. On display there by 1995. Still there October 2005, marked with RAF serial number.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1970-June-26 Serial Change Became CAF serial number 12944 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 45

Ex USAAF 42-92468 C-47A-5-DK delivered10 Feb 1944.
To RAF - FZ677 24 Feb 1944. Written off 09 Mar 1944. The Dakota III flew into a mountain near Reykjavik, Iceland 2(2) during ferry flight.

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last update: 2024-July-20
1944-March-07 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Nisbet Thomson 2023-07-16

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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial number 42-92469, delivered to USAAF on 9 December 1943. To RAF as FZ678 on 20 February 1944. Delivered to Canada on 16 April 1946. In storage at Mossbank, Saskatchewan in November 1947. Believed to have crashed at RCAF Station Fort Nelson, BC. Reported to have been marked 12273 (the company number) while with RCAF.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1949-June-23 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 233;437;121;424

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92489, ex RAF FZ692. FZ692 flew 16 with 233 Squadron and 208 operational trips with 437 Squadron for a total of 224. It ended up flying hundreds of individual legs between airfields in Europe. FZ692 participated in two major airborne operations, Normandy and the Rhine Crossing. It carried 298 casualties to medical aid and repatriated 456 prisoners of war. It carried over 5,100 passengers to destinations around Europe and carried over two hundred tons of freight (414,368 lbs).

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92489, ex RAF FZ692. Served with Tactical Air Command, possibly based at CJATC, Rivers, Manitoba. Took part in Operation Loup Garou (airborne assault on Sept Isle, PQ) February 1954. With No. 121 (K) Unit at RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, dates not known.

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Serving with 424 Squadron at CFB Trenton when renumbered. Performed JATO ignition in flight as part of 1970 Canadian National Air Show over Toronto waterfront, September 1970. Declared surplus on 22 February 1973. To Crown Assets Disposal Corp. 18 may 1973. Sold to maritime Aircraft Overhaul and Repair, Moncton NB. To US civil register as N91GA in July 1973, operated by Gilley Airways. To Department of Energy, Mines and Resources as C-GRSB by 11 March 1975, one of several Dakotas still operated by this government agency on environmental and mineral surveys, and development of survey equipment. Registration briefly to Innotech Aviation in 1985 and 1995, probably for modifications. Latest Certificate of Registration issued to Environment Canada in July 2003. In storage at Ottawa when it was announced in November 2013 that the aircraft would be donated by Environment Canada to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton.

FZ692 has been restored to the paint scheme it would have worn at the end of World War II with 437 Squadron RCAF.CWHM
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-August-28 Taken on Strength from RCAF overseas 2020-11-01
   1970-June Serial Change Renumbered as CAF 12945 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS;AFHQ;103;CEPE;412

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92493, delivered to USAAF on 11 January 1944. To RAF as FZ694 on 1 February 1944. Delivered to Canada on 22 April 1946 as FZ694. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School, coded "D". To AFHQ Practice Flight RCAF Rockcliffe 15 Feb. 1954. During 19574, served with No. 103 RU, RCAF Greenwood and CEPE RCAF Uplands. With AFHQ Practice Flight RCAF Rockcliffe Feb. 1958 - Sept 1962. Mar 1964 to AFHQ Training Flight RCAF Uplands until June 1965. With 412 Squadron CFB Uplands May 1966 - June 1967. To Aircraft Industries, St. Jean QC June 1967. To Crown Assets Disposal Corp Jan 1968. Sold to Carl Millard Ltd, Malton ON 30 Jan 1968, registered CF-WTV . Reported marked as 12300 (the company number) while with RCAF. Exact fate unclear, but never received CAF serial. To US civil register as N90HA. Later registered to Basler Turbo Conversions of Winnebago, Wisconsin on 20 December 2005 as N907Z. Reported withdrawn from use, possibly used for spares by Basler.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1968-June-30 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: CEPE

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92494, delivered to USAAF on 24 January 1944. To RAF as FZ695 on 21 February 1944. Delivered to Canada on 22 April 1946. Stored post war at Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Ferried from Mossbank to No. 10 Repair Depot at Calgary in May 1948. Operated by Central Proving and Experimental Establishment at RCAF Station Namao, Alberta, coded "PX*695". To Canadian Forces in February 1968. Reported marked as 12301 (the company number) while with RCAF. To civil register as CF-YDH, off register by 1976.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength No Inv Card. TOS 20 July 1946 per Griffin2005 RAF Registry. 2020-11-01
   1968-October-31 Struck off Strength Struck off, later sold 2020-10-27

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92500, ex RAF KG312. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Renumbered 12912 June 1970.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92500, ex RAF KG312. With Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg up to June 1971, equipped as a radar trainer. To Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit at Winnipeg on 1 July 1971. To 429 Squadron at Winnipeg on 1 April 1972. To civil register as C-GPOA. To Buffalo Airways as C-FROD, registered on 21 February 1990. Crashed on short final to Fort Simpson, NWT on 26 June 1994, after flight from Trout Lake, NWT. Investigation cited fuel starvation, and lack of crew coordination. Registration cancelled in December 1994. Note that this civil registration would later be re-used for another ex-CF Dakota with Buffalo Airways (see12927).
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June Serial Change Became CAF 12912. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 437

USAAF 42-92502 C-47A-5-DK 13-01-44. RAF - Royal Air Force KG315 14-02-44. W/O 23.09.44. Operation Market Garden after crew abandoned aircraft due to flak hit.
Operated by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK in 1944. The Dakota III crashed 1.5 km south-west of Driel, Holland at about 17:00 local time on 23 September 1944, hit by flak during re-supply mission to Arnhem. Flight crew of 4 and 4 UK Army dispatchers all killed.

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1944-September-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Donald Lawrence Jack 2021-08-11
1944-September-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Denis Joseph O'Sullivan 2021-08-18
1944-September-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Robert Paget 2021-08-18
1944-September-23 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Roy Irving Pinner 2021-08-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS

Ex USAAF 42-92506, C-47A-1-DK 14 Jan 1944. To RAF KG317 18 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG317 20 August 1946. Written off 25.04.50. The Dakota III crashed shortly after takeoff 5 km from Summerside Airport, PE (YSU) 0(3).
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RCAF Accident Record
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1950-May-10 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

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Ex USAAF 42-92509. C-47A-5-DK, delivered 12 Jan 1944.
To RAF KG320 23 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG320 20 July 1946. To CF-BVF Wright Industrial Equipment Ltd
25 May 1970. Preserved, on display at Planes of Fame Museum, Chino California in 2010.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-May-20 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 575

USAAF 42-92516 C-47A-5-DK 13-01-44. RAF - Royal Air Force KG328 06 Feb 1944. FLC Payne Field 29 Mar 1947.
last update: 2024-July-20
1944-September-18 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Edgar Henry 2022-11-12

Known Squadron Assignments: 111;112;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92518, ex RAF KG330. Reported to have taken part in 3 airborne operations before transferring to RCAF. With No. 111 (K) Unit at Winnipeg from November 1947. With No. 112 (T) Flight at Rivers Camp, Manitoba in October 1948, when it was dispatched to BC to take part in search for missing B-25. Back with No. 111 Flight in 1948, carried servicing crew for No. 402 Squadron Vampire display team on airshow circuit that summer. Still with 111 Flight in January 1949, when it took part in Operation Carss. With Transport Support School (Air) at CJATC, Rivers in January 1950, when it took part in Operation Sweetbriar at Whitehorse, Yukon. To civil register as C-GWZS, registered to Buffalo Airways. Still operational c.2010.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92518, ex RAF KG330. With Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg up to June 1971, equipped as a radar trainer. To Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit at Winnipeg on 1 July 1971. To No. 429 Squadron at Winnipeg on 1 April 1972. With Northwest Territorial Airways of Yellowknife from 18 January 1982 as C-GWZS. To Buffalo Airways on 28 September 1988, latest Certificate of Registration issued in 1996, still in regular service in November 2011.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June Serial Change Renumbered as CAF 12913 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS

Ex US C-47A-5-DK 42-92533, ex RAF KG337. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School.
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Ex US C-47A-5-DK s/n 42-92533, ex RAF KG337. Operated by RCAF post war with RAF serial. Stored at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To civil register as CF-NTF, to Northwest Territorial Airways of Yellowknife, NWT on 11 December 1972. Registration cancelled in 1988, was C-FNTF. Next owner was Point North Air Services of La Ronge, Saskatchewan, from 14 July 1993. Crashed on 17 March 2000, while attempting to overshoot from a long landing on ice runway at Ennadai Point, Nunavut. Investigation found aircraft was overweight, payload had shifted in flight, and was beyond aft c.g. limit at take off, also cited possible carbon monoxide poisoning of the pilot. Both crew members killed. Registration cancelled on 19 February 2002.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June Serial Change Renumbered as CAF 12914. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 408

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK, serial 42-92540, delivered 27 Jan 1944. To RAF KG345 4 Feb 1944, To RCAF KG345 26 Aug 1946. Used post war by No. 408 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. To Ontario Central Airlines CF-XUS 14 Jan 1969.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1968-June-27 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 412;ANS;AETE;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92545, delivered 18 Jan 1944. To RAF KG350 21 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG350 26 Aug 1946. With No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe or Uplands, Ontario, post war, in "RCAF Squadrons". Renumbered 12915 3 June 1970.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92545, ex RAF KG350. Operated by Photo Wing, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, post war. Passed through Winnipeg en route to Regina, Saskatchewan on 9 January 1947, while with Photo Wing. Later with No. 412 (T) Squadron at Rockcliffe. With this Squadron when it transported participants of Operation Beatle around MWT in April 1947. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. Used by Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at CFB Uplands, Ontario, dates not known. With Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg up to June 1971. To Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit at Winnipeg on 1 July 1971. To No. 429 Squadron at Winnipeg on 1 April 1972. To civil register as C-GWMX, registered to R.C. Wilkinson of Calgary, Alberta on 4 June 1977. Later to US civil register as N29958, operated by Kimber Air of Denver, Colorado. Heavily damaged at Englewood, Colorado on 30 May 1983. Dragged one wing tip on touch down, after stalling at 5 feet during approach in bad weather. This registration cancelled on 23 October 1992, reported as destroyed. Also reported as derelict in 2006.
last update: 2024-August-06

Known Squadron Assignments: ANS;103;VU32

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92550, delivered 19 Jan 1944. To RAF KG354 25 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG354 26 Aug 1946. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School. With No. 103 (Rescue) Unit at RCAF Station Greenwood, NS in 1952. Renumbered 12916 3 June 1970.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92550, ex RAF KG354. With VU 32 at CFB Shearwater, NS. To civil register as C-GABE. To US civil register as N59314. With Frontier Flying Service in Alaska from at least 1989 to 2000. Last US Certificate of Airworthiness issued on 24 September 2001, to Abbe Air Cargo of Wasilla, Alaska. Reported withdrawn from use on 25 July 2003. Airworthy again 2008 to 2010, operated by Abbe Air in Alaska.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 233

USAAF 42-92552 C-47A-5-DK 27-01-44. RAF - Royal Air Force KG356 02-02-44. W/O 06.06.44. The Dakota III was hit by flak on approach to dropzone K during Operation Tonga whilst dropping paratroops of 8th Battalion Parachute Regiment. The para bailed out, followed by the navigator and co-pilot & aircraft crashed near Bassenville, France 1(2).
last update: 2024-February-19
1944-June-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Harvey Edgar Jones MiD 2023-10-04

Known Squadron Assignments: 575;512

USAAF 42-92561 C-47A-5-DK 24-01-44. RAF - Royal Air Force KG366 30-01-44. W/O 21.03.44. The Dakota III flew into trees in cloud & crashed near Watlington, Oxfordshire, U.K. 5(?).

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1944-March-21 KIA RAF Flying Officer Clarence Edward Robertson 2021-08-08
1944-March-31 KIA RCAF Flying Officer James Garnet Falloon 2021-08-06

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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92563, delivered 22 Jan 1944. To RAF KG368 25 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG368 9 Sept 1946. To civil CF-GEI Eldorado Mining 5 Dec 1947.
last update: 2024-September-22
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1946-September-09 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1947-September-22 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 48

USAAF 42-92564 C-47A-5-DK 24-01-44. To RAF - Royal Air Force KG370 30-01-44. W/O 23.09.44. The Dakota III crashed during Operation Market Garden at Oosterbeek, Netherlands ?(?).

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1944-September-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Henry Everist Colman 2024-04-29
1944-September-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer James Leroy Springsteele 2021-07-23

Known Squadron Assignments: 437

USAAF 42-92570 C-47A-5-DK 26-01-44. RAF - Royal Air Force KG376 30-01-44. W/O 21.09.44. Operated by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF in the UK in 1944. Crashed near Keldonk/Erp, Holland on 21 September 1944. Shot down during resupply mission to Arnheim, one of 4 squadron aircraft lost on this mission. The Dakota III was shot down during Operation Market Garden SW of Keldonk, Netherlands 3(?). Crew bailed out, but three were killed.

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1944-September-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Michael Stanley Reece Mahon 2021-05-19

Known Squadron Assignments: 32OTU

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-92594, delivered 29 Jan 1944. To RAF KG354 10 Feb 1944. To RCAF KG382 22 Feb 1944. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. To CF-TEA Trans Canada Airlines 18 June 1946.
last update: 2024-September-22
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1944-February-22 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1946-February-19 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 437

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1944-September-21 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader Robert Wilfred Alexander DFC 2024-11-02
1944-September-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Stewart McLintock 2024-03-27

Known Squadron Assignments: 575;437

C-47A-10-DK 42-108857 (MSN 12418) to USAAF Jan 29, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG388 at RAF Montreal Feb 21, 1944. To UK Mar 7, 1944. 575 Squadron RAF Apr 24, 1944.
Missing from mission to Arnhem, Netherlands Sep 19, 1944.

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1944-September-19 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Earl Walter Caouette 2023-12-23

Known Squadron Assignments: 437;408

Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK serial number 42-92550, delivered 3 Feb 1944. To RAF KG389 10 Feb 1944. Operated by No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK in 1944. To RCAF KG389 26 Aug 1946. Used post war by No. 408 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. To CF-NWS Northwest territorial Airways 10 July 1968.
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 412;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK serial number 42-92605, ex RAF KG394. Took part in Operation Sundog II in February 1951 (airborne assault exercise out of Churchill, Manitoba), possibly with 412 (T) Squadron. Participated in Operation Sundog III (airborne assault on Fort Chimo, Quebec, from Goose Bay), February 1952, while with 412 Squadron. Ferried to Montreal by 435 Squadron crew on 21 December 1954 or 1953.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK serial number 42-92605, ex RAF KG394. With Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg up to June 1971. To Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit at Winnipeg on 1 July 1971. To No. 429 Squadron at Winnipeg on 1 April 1972. Registered as C-GUBT to Bradley Brothers of Noranda, Ontario on 15 October 1977. With Skycraft Air Trans Inc. of Oshawa, Ontario as C-GUBT from 1979. Crashed at Toronto airport on 22 June 1983, killing both crew members. A load of automotive parts shifted aft while landing, the aircraft stalled, crashed on the runway, and was partially consumed by fire. Registration cancelled in 1984.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June Serial Change Renumbered CAF 12918 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 48;437;ANS;429

Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK serial number 42-92606, delivered 31 Jan 1944. To RAF KG395 10 Feb 1944.
Arrived in UK Feb 19, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Feb 28, 1944. 437 Sqdn RAF Sep 24, 1944. To RCAF KG395 26 Aug 1946. With Air Navigation School at RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, coded "L". 429 Sqdn RCAF based in Winnipeg by 1952. In 1970 was allocated RCAF serial 12919. In 1977 the registration C-GZCR was reserved but not taken up. Aircraft went to Basler Flight Services of Oshkosh, Wisconsin as N89BF. In October 1987, the aircraft was registered N99FS operating out of Panama City, Florida.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-10-DK serial number 42-92606, ex RAF KG395. With Canadian Forces Air Navigation School at CFB Winnipeg up to June 1971. To Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit at Winnipeg on 1 July 1971. To No. 429 Squadron at Winnipeg on 1 April 1972. To civil register as C-GZCR, off the Canadian register by 1985. Later to US civil register as N99FS, registered to Brooks Aviation of Douglas, Georgia from 31 March 1989. Reported marked with RAF serial. In 2010 still registered to Brooks, in USAAF markings, active on the air show circuit.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1970-June Serial Change Renumbered as CAF 12919. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments:

42-92607 (MSN 12426) to USAAF Feb 8, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG396 at RAF Montreal Feb 24, 1944. While on ferry flight from Montreal flew into high ground 12 m SSE of Meeks Field, Iceland Mar 5, 1944 while descending in cloud. 3 killed.

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1944-March-05 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Philip Joseph Asseff 2024-11-03
1944-March-05 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Donald Keith Nelson 2023-07-16
1944-March-05 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Leicester James Tingle 2022-12-13

Known Squadron Assignments: 48;435

42-92612 (MSN 12432) to USAAF Feb 4, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG397 at RAF Montreal Feb 8, 1944. To UK Feb 19 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Feb 26, 1944. 435 Sqdn RCAF. Flew into high ground 2 mi W of Warlingham, UK Feb 13, 1946 while on approach to Croydon.
Operated by 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK. Originally coded "D". Coded "ODMD" after September 1945, on flights to continent from UK. Struck on the ground by Dakota KG610 of 437 (T) Squadron at B.75 (Nivelles, France) on 21 January 1946. Crashed on ridge near Chelsham, Surrey, en-route from Buckleburg, Germany to UK, in bad weather, at about 11:35 on 13 February 1946. 8 fatalities, 3 injuries. Accident location also described as "3 kilometres (1.9 miles) south west of Warlingham, UK". From squadron ORB: "Aircraft was on a passenger run, Buckeburg to Croydon. Forecast was poor and he landed at Manston. After checking weather again he took off at 1055 hours, flying at 2,500 feet between two layers of 6/10 cloud. Approaching Croydon he tried "Gee" homing but could not pick up "V" beams. Overshot the field, turned about and was letting down when he hit a 12-foot hedge on a 700-foot ridge. The aircraft crossed a valley and struck on the other side against a 650-foot height. Eight persons were killed, 14 seriously injured and two uninjured. At the time he had 1,485 hours of flying including 379 solo hours on Dakotas. Accident ruled to be due to "culpable negligence" ".

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   1946-February-13 Accident Crash Crashed on ridge near Chelsham, Surrey, en-route from Buckleburg, Germany to UK, in bad weather. 8 fatalities, 3 injuries. 2019-08-20
1946-February-13 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Alfred John Clark 2024-02-22
1946-February-13 KIFA RCAF Squadron Leader Robert Gray Joyce 2022-06-11

Known Squadron Assignments: 233;435

To USAAF Feb 3, 1944. C-47A-5-DK. To RAF as Dakota III KG400 at RAF Montreal Feb 8, 1944. To RAF in UK Feb 28, 1i944. 233 Sqdn RAF Mar 1, 1944. 435 Sqdn RAF Sep 13, 1945. 233 Sqdn RAF. To RCAF Jul 20, 1946 as KG400. At RCAF Station Centralia in the early 1950s, as a radio trainer. To N6680 5 Aug 1968.
last update: 2024-September-22
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1968-August-07 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 233;435;436

Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-108859, ex RAF KG403. 233 Sqdn RAF Feb 29 1944. 435 Sqdn RAF Sep 17, 1945. 436 Sqdn RAF. To Canadian government Apr 16, 1946. To RCAF as KG403 Jul 20, 1946. At RCAF Station Centralia in the early 1950s, as a radio trainer.
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Ex USAAF C-47A-5-DK serial number 42-108859, ex RAF KG403. Stored at Canadian Forces Technical Services Detachment at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To civil register as CF-BKP. To US civil register, operated by Aero-Dyne as N107AD in mid 1970s. Registered to Champlain Air of Plattsburg, New York on 11 April 1995, as N700CA.
last update: 2024-September-22
   1946-July-20 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 48

42-92620 (MSN 12441) to USAAF Feb 4, 1944 C-47A-10-DK. To RAF as Dakota III KG406 at RAF Montreal Feb 23, 1944. To UK Jar 16, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Mar 27, 1944. 271 Sqdn RAF Jan 7, 1945. Crashed Apr 28, 1945 in English Channel 10 mi SE of South Foreland, Kent.

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1945-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Learned Ives MiD 2021-08-11
1945-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ross Earl Reynolds 2021-08-10

Known Squadron Assignments: 48;435;436;102

C-47A-10-DK 42-92627 (MSN 12449) to USAAF Feb 4, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG414 Feb 8, 1944 at RAF Montreal. To UK Feb 23, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Sep 15, 1944. 435 Sqdn RAF Sep 15, 1945. 436 Sqdn RAF Mar 17, 1946. To RCAF Jun 23, 1946 as KG414. With No. 102 (K) Unit at RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario. Used for search and rescue. To Indian AF as BJ764 Mar 21, 1962.
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   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1962 Ownership Transferred Transferred to Indian Air Force. 2019-08-20
   1962-November-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 48;435;436

C-47A-10-DK 42-92629 (MSN 12451) to USAAF Feb 4, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG416 at RAF Montreal Feb 21, 1944. To UK Mar 29, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Apr 22, 1944. 435 Sqdn RAF Sep 9, 1945. 436 Sqdn RAF. To RCAF Aug 26, 1946 as KG416, later 12451. Written off Apr 18, 1952 Winnipeg AP, Manitoba. May have been marked with company number as serial when it crashed at Winnipeg on 18 April 1952.
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   1946-August-28 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1952-June-13 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 48

C-47A-10-DK 92630 (MSN 12452) to USAAF Feb 5, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG417 at RAF Montreal Feb 21, 1944.
To UK Mar 18, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Apr 22, 1944. MIA on mission to Arnhem, Holland Sep 21, 1944.

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1944-September-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James William Erickson 2022-08-01
1944-September-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Jack Gordon Wills 2021-07-08

Known Squadron Assignments: 512;437

C-47A-10-DK 42-92635 (MSN 12457) to USAAF Feb 5, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG422 at RAF Montreal Feb 23, 1944. To UK Feb 23, 1944. 512 Sqdn RAF Apr 10, 1944. 437 Sqdn RCAF Sep 24, 1944. DBR when overshot landing and tipped onto nose, Vlamertinghe Ypres, Belgium Sep 30, 1944.
last update: 2024-August-06
   1944-September-24 Taken on Strength 2023-06-23

Known Squadron Assignments: 408;ANS

Ferried by crew from 435 Squadron from Calgary, Alberta to Cartierville, PQ on 24 January 1947. Used post war by No. 408 (P) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. At RCAF Station Summerside, PEI in early 1950s, used by Air Navigation School, coded "K".
last update: 2024-September-22
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   1946-October-01 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1968-August-07 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 437; 435

C-47A-10-DK 42-92637 (MSN 12460) to USAAF Feb 4, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG425 at RAF Montreal Feb 9, 1944. To UK Feb 18, 1944. 57 Sqdn RAF Mar 8, 1944. 437 Sqdn RAF Sep 24, 1944. With No. 437 (T) Squadron, RCAF in the UK in 1945, coded "Z2*M". One of the first aircraft to carry "Royal Canadian Air Force" marked on fuselage, see photo on page 135 of "RCAF Squadrons and Aircraft". Operated by No. 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK from fall of 1945. Coded "S". With Croyden Detachment of this unit, March 1946. Crashlanded near Anzio, Italy Mar 1, 1946 following engine failure.
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Known Squadron Assignments: 233;48

C-47A-10-DK 42-92640 (MSN 12463) to USAAF Feb 6, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG428 at RAF Montreal Sep 27, 1944. To UK Mar 7, 1944. 233 Sqdn RAF Mar 15, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Mar 19, 1944. Shot down by flak over Arnhem, Netherlands Sep 19, 1944.

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1944-September-19 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Paul Anderson 2024-11-02
1944-September-19 PoW RCAF Pilot Officer Philip Arnold Fulmore 2021-05-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 233

C-47A-10-DK 42-92641 to USAAF Feb 6, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG429 at RAF Montreal Feb 21, 1944. To UK Feb 25, 1944. 233 Sqdn RAF Mar 8, 1944. Missing from mission to Normandy Jun 6, 1944.

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1944-June-06 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1 Nathan Louis Berger 2024-11-11

Known Squadron Assignments: 233;436;ANS

USAAF C-47 42-92642 delivered 8 Feb 1944. To RAF Dakota lll KG430 22 Feb 1944. To UK with 233 Squadron 24 Feb 1944.

Operated by 436 Squadron RAF 7 Oct 1945. Transferred to RCAF KG430 2 June 1946. With 1 Air Navigation School at RCAF Station Summerside, PEI 16 May 1949, coded "VC*430".

Crashed on 14 May 1951. Strike off 6 July 1951, reduce to spares and produce. Killed were Flying Officer O.M. Foster, Flight Cadet G.M. Higgins, Flying Officer J.J. L.E. Rodier, and Flight Cadet F.W. Smith.

Accident report contains previous serial: "VC430" should be "KG430".

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   1946-August-26 Taken on Strength 2022-02-07
   1951-July-06 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07
1951-May-14 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Owen Miles Foster 2023-07-18
1951-May-14 KIFA RCAF Flight Cadet Gerald Michael Higgins 2023-07-18
1951-May-14 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Jean Louis Elie Rodier 2023-07-18
1951-May-14 KIFA RCAF Flight Cadet Frank Wilfred Smith 2023-07-18

Known Squadron Assignments: 233;435;436

C-47A-10-DK 42-108862 (MSN 12468) to USAAF Feb 8, 1944. to RAF as Dakota III KG433 Feb 21, 1944 at RAF Montreal. To UK Feb 24, 1944. 232 Sqdn RAF Feb 29, 1944. 435 Sqdn RAF Sep 9, 1944. 436 Sqdn RAF. Operated by 436 (T) Squadron, RCAF, in the UK post war. Undershot landing in bad weather at night at Wiltshire UK on 12 October 1945, came down 3 miles short of runway. At least three crew killed in crash or later died of injuries.

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1945-October-11 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Kenneth James Blevins 2024-11-13
1945-October-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Roy Harrison 2022-01-27
1945-October-11 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant William Essex Hopkins 2022-01-27
1945-October-11 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Edward Henry Neufeld 2021-08-17

Known Squadron Assignments: 117

C-47A-20-DK 42-92646 to USAAF Feb 8, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG435 Feb 22, 1944. RAF Nassau Feb 22, 1944. ACSEA Mar 17, 1944. 117 Sqdn RAF. Wrecked Sep 23, 1944 when swung on landing at Imphal, Burma and hit ditch, and undercarriage collapsed.

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Known Squadron Assignments: 48;435

C-47A-10-DK 42-92650 (MSN 12474) to USAAF Feb 7, 1944. To RAF as Dakota III KG439 at RAF Montreal Feb 15, 1944. To UK Feb 23, 1944. 48 Sqdn RAF Feb 29, 1944. 435/436 Sqdn RAF Sep 12, 1945. Oct 19, 1945 after hitting tree following loss of power during takeoff from Croydon, UK.
Operated by 435 (T) Squadron, RCAF, Croyden detachment, on flights to continent from UK, at time of crash. Wrecked at Sanderstead, UK on takeoff from Croyden, UK on 19 October 1945. Lost power on takeoff, due to wrong fuel tank selector settings. 3 (or 4) fatalities, 1 injury.

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