Built under USAAF contract and transferred to the US Navy as R4D-5 BuNo 17140 Jan 10, 1944, this was one of the aircraft converted to R4D-8 with new MSN 43385 (original C-47 cn was 12298). It was retried from military service in 1981. First flying with Audi Air as N9663N, the Super DC-3 would fly with Air 500 from November 1987 to June 1991. Sold to a leasing company in the USA, the aircraft reverted to N9663N was stored at Ft. Lauderdale.
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