Douglas C-47-DL 42-32913 (MSN 9139) to USAAF on the 2nd of March 1943 - Oran, Algeria on the 12th of May 1943.
14th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia, on the 21st of June 1943.
Damaged taxying 80 miles east of Telergma, Algeria, on the 29th of June 1943.
Licata, Sicily, on the 1st of September 1943. Sciacca, Sicily, on the 6th of October 1943.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca on the 12th of February 1944. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall; Barkston Heath (Station 483) on the 18th of February 1944.
Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France, on Mission 'Boston' on the 6th of June 1944.
During a 14th TCS night formation flight on the 7th of January 1945, the radio operator parachuted from the aircraft for no apparent reason. His body was found on the ground the next day with no parachute attached – and the parachute later found separately 4½ miles away opened [1KIS].
Returned to USA on the 25th of July 1945 - stored on the 28th of July 1945 - To RFC on the 8th of November 1945.
To civil registry as NC54731, C-117 (Avianca in August 1946).
Reregistred HK-117 1949, converted to Hyper DC-3 and cancelled 1963.
NLR.