List of surviving Douglas C-47 Skytrains

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This is a list of surviving Douglas C-47 Skytrain and variant aircraft, including the C-53 Skytrooper, C-117 and R4D.

Surviving aircraft

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Argentina

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Douglas DC-3 TA-05

Airworthy

  • 43-49533. LV-BEH, C-47B-15-DK c/n 15349/26794 - ex-Argentine Air Force TC-35, ex-United States Army Air Force 43-49533.[1]

On display

  • 41-18539. C-47-DL. CTA-15. At Museo de la Aviacion Naval, Bahia Blanca
  • 42-23716. C-47A. Cape Horn [es] 5-T-22. At Ushuia Aero club.
  • 43-15499. TA-05, ex-Argentine Air Force, at Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, Morón, Buenos Aires. Used in flights to Antarctica.[2]
  • 43-48194. C-47A-30-DK c/n 25455/14010, ex-Argentine Air Force T-101, at Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina. Displayed representing presidential transport LQ-GJT Independencia .[3][4]

Austria

On Display

  • 42-93189. C-47A. N86U. Arizona Lady. First Austrian DC-3 Dakota Club.[5]

Australia

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Historical Aircraft Restoration Society C-47B Dakota VH-EAF

Airworthy

On display

Belgium

On Display

Brazil

On Display

Canada

Airworthy

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The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's C-47 in June 2023.

On Display

Chile

On Display

On restoration process for display

  • 43-49697. C-47B-20-DK, ex CC-CBW of Aerocor, Aerolíneas Cordillera. Parted-out, its nose was acquired by a private owner from Osorno, southern Chile for a possible restoration.[citation needed]

China

Airworthy

On display

Colombia

On Display

Czech Republic

On Display

Denmark

Airworthy

On Display

Ecuador

On Display

Ethiopia

On Display

Finland

Airworthy

On Display

France

Airworthy

  • 42-23310. C-47-DL. F-AZTE. France DC 3.[42]
  • 44-77020. C-47B. F-AZOX Chalair. Un Dakota sur Normandie. Caen-Carpiquet Airport.[43]

On Display

Germany

On Display

Greece

Airworthy

On Display

Hong Kong

On Display

Honduras

On Display

41-18696 under restoration 26 June 2024 La Ceiba, Honduras.[citation needed]

Hungary

Airworthy

Iceland

Airworthy

India

Airworthy

On Display

  • 43-15546. C-47A-85-DL airframe with c/n 20012 . Owned by Flytech Aviation Academy and is used for ground training at the Nadirgul airstrip . It was used in India as VT-DTS, and featured in the 1965 Bollywood murder mystery movie Gumnaam. It is featured on postage stamps.[citation needed]

Indonesia

On Display

Israel

On Display

Italy

On Display

Malta

On Display

Netherlands

Airworthy

  • 44-19434 / 42-100971. C-47A Prinses Amalia in operation, formerly part of the Dutch Dakota Association fleet.[68] DDA has since stopped operations and Princess Amalia was sold for preservation in airworthy condition at Aviodrome, Lelystad Airport (ICAO: EHLE) for the nominal sum of € 1,- (one Euro). She was flown to Lelystad on 17 December 2024 [69]

On Display

  • 42-23974. C-47A. De Vliegende Hollander/The Flying Dutchman At Aviodrome museum.[70]
  • 43-2022. C-53C. Darlin Dorien. Wings of Liberation Museum. Painted as '290321', which could be read as a military serial (42-90321), but reflects the owner's birthday.[71][failed verification]
  • 43-15288. C-47A. At Aviodrome museum. Formerly part of the Dutch Dakota Association, presently under restoration to flying condition as PH-DDZ Doornroosje.[72]
  • 43-15652. T-443 – ex-RDAF K-688', c/n 20118 - C-47B on display at the Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg .[73]
  • 44-76634. C-47B. At Aviodrome museum, Lelystad.[citation needed]
  • 44-76900. C-47B. On Display at Madurodam.[citation needed]

On Display (partial airframes) C-47B

  • 43-48266. C-47B. (Only Cockpit) Wings of Liberation Museum.

New Zealand

Airworthy

On Display

Norway

Airworthy

  • 42-68823 C-53D-DO. Little Egypt. Flying with Dakota Norway.[79][80]

On Display

  • 42-93797. C-47A-25-DK. Flysamlingen Forsvarets museum, Oslo.[81]

Pakistan

  • 41-18470. On display as coffee shop at Shangrila Resort, Skardu.[citation needed]

Philippines

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A C-47 on static display at Philippine Air Force Aerospace museum.

Portugal

On Display

Russia

Airworthy

Serbia

On Display

Slovenia

On Display

South Africa

South Korea

On Display

Spain

On Display

Sri Lanka

On Display

  • 43-48203. C-47A. Sri Lanka Air Force Museum.[89]

Sweden

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C-47 on display at the Swedish Airborne Camp

Airworthy

  • 43-30732. Served in the Swedish Air Force as 79006. Today still flying with the society Flygande Veteraner under the name "Daisy"[90]

On Display

  • Wreckage of 42-5694 on display at the Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping. The plane last served as TP 79 001 in the Swedish Air Force and was shot down over the Baltic Sea by the Soviet Union while on mission to gather signal-intelligence for the National Defence Radio Establishment (Sweden) in June 1952. The wreckage was discovered in 2003 and recovered in 2004. Exhibited at the museum since 2010.[91]
  • 42-32877. on static display in Karlsborg Sweden at the Swedish Airborne Camp. This plane also served in the Swedish Air Force, as 79002, with signal-intelligence, like 79001 above. Today restored as a Swedish Airborne aircraft from the 60s. It participated in all major Allied Parachute Missions from the Invasion of Sicilly July 1943 over the D-day until Operation Market-Garden in Holland September 1944.
  • 42-93706. exhibited outside the Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping. The aircraft served as TP 79 007 in the Swedish Air Force between 1960 and 1982. After Second World War in civilian service in Det Norske Luftselskap in Norway until 1948. In Swedish civilian service 1948–1957 with Scandinavian Airlines and 1957–1960 in Linjeflyg.[92][failed verification]
  • 42-24049. On display at a shopping center in Norrtälje, Sweden.[citation needed]

Switzerland

Airworthy

  • 41-18401. C-47-DL. Painted as 43-15087. N 150 D. Owned by Hugo Mathys.[citation needed]
  • 41-18542. (or 18541, not confirmed info) C-47-DL. HB-ISB. Classic air. Operated by Classic Air.[citation needed]
  • 42-24133. C-47A-45DL. NH 431 HM. Painted as Swissair. Owned by Hugo Mathys.[93][failed verification]

On Display

  • 44-77061. C-47B. Swiss Museum of transport.[94]

Taiwan

On Display

Thailand

On Display[96]

Turkey

On Display

United Kingdom

Airworthy

  • 40-0070. C-41-A. N 341A. Aerotechnics Aviation Inc, Tewkesbury.[citation needed]
  • 42-24338/ZA947 – C-47A/Dakota 3 During the Second World War this aircraft served entirely in Canada. It is airworthy and forms part of the BBMF. It was originally given the serial number KG661 and served with the Royal Aircraft Establishment, but in the late 1970s it was realised that the serial number KG661 had, in fact, previously been allocated to another Dakota which had been destroyed in an accident. The error was reported and in July 1979 the Dakota was allocated the 'modern' serial ZA947, which explains why this serial does not match the age or era of the aircraft.[100]
  • 42-100882. C-47A. Drag em oot. Aero Legends UK.[101][failed verification]
  • 42-100884. C-47A. Mayfly. Flying with Aces High[102][failed verification]
  • 43-49308. C-47B. G-AMPY. RVL Aviation.[citation needed]
  • 44-77104. C-47B. G-ANAF. RVL Aviation.[citation needed]

On Display

United States

Airworthy C-47

C-47A/Dakota III

C-47B/R4D-6

TC-47D

TC-47K

  • 99854 Black Sparrow – Basler Turbo Conversions in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[149] Formerly operated by the Headquarters Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force.[150]

C-53D

  • 41-20095 Beach City Baby – This airframe was previously used by the state of Ohio as the governor's aircraft before being put on display at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. [151] The Aircraft underwent a lengthy restoration in Franklin, Pennsylvania before making its first post-restoration flight on May 14, 2022 and has since joined the airshow circuit.[152]
  • 42-68830 D-Day Doll – Inland Empire Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in Riverside, California.[153]

On display (complete airframes) C-47

C-47A/R4D-5

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C-47 on display at the National World War II Museum

VC-47A

C-47B

R4D-6

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R4D-6 on display at the Silent Wings Museum.

VC-47D

C-47D

TC-47D

C-47H

C-47K

R4D-3

C-53D

C-117C

C-117D

  • 50826 – Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.[187]

On display (partial airframes) C-47A

Under restoration or in storage (complete airframes) C-47A/Dakota III

C-47B

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C-47B 44-76457 at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, New York.

C-53D

  • 42-68710 – under restoration to airworthy with Saving Lulu Belle, Inc. in Fremont, Ohio.[193]

C-53DO

Uruguay

On Display

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