A listing of the known EC-47 Tail Numbers

"Data on EC-47 tail numbers."

This data was not solicited but is truly appreciated

If you have any data on the EC-47 or its Mission, Please send it to me.

Thank you Mr. Miller

From: miller To: '[email protected]' Subject: Info on EC-47s Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 1:21 PM

Mr James C. Wheeler:

You are developing a very interesting site. I have been reading the articles with much enjoyment.

I was not involved in the conflict so I have no first hand knowledge. I am merely an enthusiast of and researcher into the exploits of the C-47 and DC-3.

To add to your list of incidents, I offer the following:

18-Feb-67 43-49679 EC-47P Hit while parked by China Airlines Curtiss C-46.
7-Jun-69 43-49547EC-47P Somewhere in Thailand.
30-Sep-69 43-48959 EC-47Q Somewhere in South Vietnam.
19-May-70 43-15133 EC-47N Destroyed by rocket attack, Pleiku.
Is this the one in the photo?

Perhaps someone can describe the circumstances. The dates are probably when they were struck off charge. The incident may have been earlier by a few days.

Also, I have provided a list of known EC-47's. The totals are very close to those in the letter from Joe Martin. It is possible there are one or two errors in the variants.

                                EC-47N

42-23882 42-24300 42-24313 42-93161 42-93166
41-108980 42-93735 42-93814 42-100513 42-100665
42-100950 42-100984 43-15112 43-15133 43-15603
43-15668 43-15979 43-15980 43-16055 43-16095
43-16123 43-48072 43-48158

EC-47P

43-48402 43-48480 43-48767 43-48886 43-48933
43-48947 43-49009 43-49100 43-49126 43-49201
43-49260 43-49491 43-49547 43-49679 43-49703
43-49865 44-76524 44-76668 44-77016 44-77254
45-0925 45-1044 45-1046 45-1102

EC-47Q

42-24304 42-93704 43-30730 43-15204 43-15619
43-15681 43-16029 43-48009 43-48087 43-48636
43-48959 43-49208 43-49570 43-49771 44-76304
45-1131 45-1133

Others

Got the following from Dave Eddy, December 15, 98
He was in from the beginning, Hawkeye and says aircraft number 50925
and I assume that was 45-0925 was a Hawkeye and later updated. Also says
he thinks 703 may have been the other Hawkeye bird. AND he gave me another
tailnumber that I was missing, "49268", any help on completing this one?
Thanks, J.C.

43-48703 EC-47P. May be 43-48702? You show photos of a "702". Can't be 43-49702.
43-48871 Either an EC-47P or EC-47Q (Chuck Cowman say's it's a "P")
43-49013 Either an EC-47P or EC-47Q (Chuck Cowman say's it's an "N or P")
45-0937 Listed as both an RC-47P and EC-47P
43-48153 Listed as RC-47N
45-1080 EC-47P?

Got this from Ed Benningfield, J.C.,, According to my Form 5, you have a couple of tail numbers that are missing. 1. AN313 out of DaNang. 2. AN937 shown as "no equation," but a Q Bird out of Da Nang. 3. AN510 is not shown, but it was a "Q" Bird out of DaNang. 4. Also not shown, is EC-47 # 238871, a COMBAT COUGAR - Supposedly involved in the shoot out in Porto Rico under the Project Name "COMBAT COUGAR." I have a pic of this one with the "BEAT ARMY" Logo on the Nose.

Any corrections, additions, squadron allocations would be appreciated.

November, 2000
Chuck Cowman supplied this list of numbers from his flight records at TSN in 1972.
] According to his flt. records, 980 and 013 were shown both as "N" and "P" models.

The Numbers he supplied were evidently at TSN in 1972 and are as follows.
('N's) 984 - 980 - 979 - 950 - 520 - 513 - 158 - 123 - 013 - 112 - 095 & 055
('P's) 980 - 886 - 871 - 703 - 126 - 044 - 013 and 009. ('Q's) only one, 681.

You will notice in this next photo/list, that we had a few Duplicate "Tail Number" and not Serial Numbers. So, if someone your are speaking to seems to not understand when you speak of say Balls Nine they may in fact be thinking of the other tail number 009. Those that I noted are "009" aka Balls Nine.

"009"
EC-47 Q was Serial Number 43-48009
EC-47 P was Serial Number 43-49009
"133"
EC-47 N was Serial Number 43-15133
EC-47 Q was Serial Number 43-1133
"304"
EC-47 Q was Serial Number 42-24304
2nd EC-47 Q was Serial Number 44-76304
"668"
EC-47 N was Serial Number 15668
EC-47 P was Serial Number 76668
"980"
EC-47 N was Serial Number 42-108980
2nd EC-47 N was Serial Number 43-15980

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