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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