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Registration: 43-48892

Construction Number: 14708/26153

Code Number: 0-48892 / MATS / AACS

Model Douglas C-47D Skytrain

Operator: US Air Force

Airport: RAF Bovingdon, UK - England

Airshow: Bovingdon - Armed Forces Day - 1960

Photographer: M West Collection

Date Taken: 14/05/1960

Date Submitted: 15/07/2007

Nice radar nose mod. Scramble have it as an AC-47D but that must have been later as a gunship for Vietnam? Backstamped G ELSTER This designation was applied to C-47s modified for operations with Air Force Airways and Communication Service (AACS)between 1953 and 1962. In 1962 it became RC-47D then later EC-47D. There was no USAF designation for the prefix "A" between 1947 and 1962, so we might assume it was for "Airways??" - J.Walls

Picture ID:1063041

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