T-29 Douglas DC-3C c/n 4825

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T-29 Douglas DC-3C c/n 4825
 - construido como C-53-DO Skytrooper, Contract AC-18393.
41-20055 USAAF Oct 31, 1941. 
 - 9th Troop Carrier Command - 52nd Troop Carrier Wing 31.10.1941.
 - 32nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Group, Sedalia Field, MO. 
 - Damaged landing at Des Moines MAP, IA 7Feb43.
 - Conflict: 44th Troop Carrier Squadron, 316th Troop Carrier Group, Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA Sep42.
 - Del Valle AAB, Austin, TX 29Sep42.
 - Mobile Air Depot, Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 10Nov42.
 - Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 16Nov42. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Waller Field, Valencia, Trinidad; Val de Caes Field, Belém, Brazil 19Nov42; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil 20Nov42; Ascension Island 21Nov42; Accra, Gold Coast 22Nov42.
 - Retained at Accra to fly two missions to the Belgian Congo.
 - Continued to Egypt via Kano and Maiduguri, Nigeria; Khartoum, Sudan to Heliopolis, Cairo. Moascar AAB, Ismailia, Egypt 4Dec42.
 - Ninth Air Force, North Africa. Valor Without Arms, Pg 335]
 - accidentado en Mun Arpt, DE Moines, IA 07.02.43
 - RFC Feb 8, 1945.
YS-24 TACA (Avianca Central America)
 - convertido de C-53-DO Skytrooper a DC-3C  por Douglas Aircraft en 1946.
PP-AVI Aerovias Brasil 'Matto Grosso" Aug 27, 1945
 - REAL Aerovias Jun 1945
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AE-4T, Ejército Argentino 1960 - 20.9.1960
T-29 Fuerza Aérea Argentina 22.11.1960
 - Wfu Dic 1966
 - declarado material en desuso 23.01.1968
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