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| Date: | Tuesday 4 February 1947 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas R4D-5S (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 17131 |
| MSN: | 12275 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Assateague Island, ME -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Portsmouth AFB, NH (PSM/KPSM) |
| Norfolk NAS Chambers, VA (NGU/KNGU) |
The aircraft disappeared in a storm at night; four crew and six passengers on board.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
The Free Lance-Star 7 February 1947, p1
Biddeford Daily Journal February 5,1947
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