Photographed at what was then known as Avra Valley Airport, since renamed Marana Regional Airport. After wartime service with the RAF as KG619 the aircraft passed to the Spanish Air Force as T.3-2 until being sold off as G-BGCE in 1978, and then going to the USA as N37529. In the 1980s it was of a number of old propliners based at McAllen, TX., and used to smuggle consumer goods into Mexico until its luck ran out and it was impounded there in January 1990. It was last reported as a derelict hulk at Oaxaca - Xoxocotlan International Airport registered as XA-ION.

Former U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) as 42-108953, Indian Air Force (IAF) as KG619, Fuerza Aérea Española as T.3-2, Ministerio del Aire as EC-ACK ntu, Fairoaks Aviation Service as G-BGCE, Westair International,DC-3C, Sam Rodio as N37529, stored at Jardines de la Primavera, Oaxaca

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-108953 then transferred to the RAF as KG619 in 1944. To the Spanish Air Force as T.3-2 in 1947. May have been registered as EC-EAB for delivery by Iberia. To Fairoaks Aviation Service as G-BGCE in 1978. Sold as N37529 in 1979. Impounded in Mexico in 1990 then thought to have gone to Lineas Aereas Oaxaquenas as XA-ION. Derelict at Oaxaca by 2002.

Derelict Dakota staring at the sun, with the titles still visible. After years of flying tourists from the mountains to the Pacific coast this beatiful plane was dumped and abandoned along the runway.