| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | N4003 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
| Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-53D Skytrooper |
| C/n (msn): | 11672 |
| Location | |
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| City / Area: | Petal / Petal Civic Center [ Off-Airport ]Map |
| Region / Country: | Mississippi, United States |
| Photo Date: | 12 December 2002 |
| Photo by: | R.A.Scholefield |
| Photo ID: | 9440 |
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Delivered to USAAF as 42-68745 in May 1943. To United Airlines as NC49543 in January 1945. Sold in 1955. Preserved engineless by Sonny Hamilton on his private property near the town centre of Petal, Mississippi from 1991. He inherited the aircraft from his father's M.W. Hamilton Machine Museum at the same location. Another DC-3 and a B-25 from his father's museum were transferred to other museums in the 1990s. This photo is copyright © R.A.Scholefield, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 17 September 2017, and has since been viewed 3748 times. |