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History of a DC-3.
Built as Skytrain 42-93482, delivered to US Army Air Force on May 24, 1944 assigned to the 5th US Air Force in Australia, arriving Brisbane October 25, 1944. It served in the Pacific theatre of operations, subsequently serving at Tacloban in the Philippines. It was sold on September, 23, 1946, possibly in the Pacific area, as it became XT-823 with Civil Air Transport in Formosa (now Taiwan), later being re-registered B-823.
On November 22, 1955, it was registered as CF-MCC with Maritime Central Airways in Canada, later going to Wheeler Airlines on August 1, 1958. On June 27, 1961 it was sold to Canadian Aircraft Renters Ltd. at Toronto. Sudair of Montreal, purchased the DC-3 on August 19, 1964.
Nordair bought it on September 1, 1971. On November 11, 1973, it returned to the USA as N14636 with Trans New England. In June 1977 it was sold to Nutmeg Commercial of Hartford, Connecticut.
SCS Air Transport (JLR Air Transport Inc.) was the next owner, followed by S. E. Bird of San Francisco, California, in June 1979. JLR Air Transport of Brownsville, Texas, took registration of the DC-3 again on October 22, 1979, and it was bought by its present owner in February 1981.
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