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SKYTRAIN/44-76770
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Serial #: 44-76770
Construction #: 16554/33302
Civil Registration:
  VH-JXD
  VH-OVM
Model(s):
  C-47B-30-DK Skytrain
Name: None
Status: Unknown
Last info: 2019
History:
Built by Douglas at the Oaklahoma City plant, April 1945
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 44-76770.
  • BOC: April 21, 1945
  • Arrived Brisbane (Amberley) for use by 5th Air Force, April 1945.
Delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force as A65-98.
  • Assigned the radio callsign 'VHRFO'
  • Operated extensively from Butterworth, Malaysia between 1964 and 1975
  • Assigned the radio callsign 'VMHJZ'
  • Transferred to the R. A. A. F. Apprentice Training School at Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., 19??.
RAAF Museum at Point Cook, Victoria, 19??.
  • Registered as VH-JXD, July 03, 1989
Shortstop Jet Charter, November 01, 1989.
  • Registered as VH-OVM, June 20, 1990
Shortstop Jet Charter Pty Ltd, December 20, 2005-2019.
Source(s):
aussieairliners.org
Photo Source(s):
Ian McDonell
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