03/31/2011. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "Designated by Douglas as the Model DC-3A-456 the aircraft was ordered by the USAAF as a C-47A-DK with s/n 42-92025 and was delivered on April 3, 1943. By July 1943, it had been issued to the 65th Troop Carrier Squadron, Fifth Air Force operating from New Guinea. Reassigned to the 54th Troop Carrier Wing in August 1943, 433d Troop Carrier Group (TCG) in November 1943 and finally to the 403d TCG in February 1945, the squadron operated from bases in New Guinea, Biak and the Philippine Islands transporting men and supplies in the combat areas.

The C-47A was sold to the Philippine airline Commercial Air Lines of Manila on March 4, 1946, and after conversion to a DC-3C, it started flying charter flights. In August 1948, Philippine Airlines purchased Commercial Air Lines and this DC-3C was sold to Air Carriers Ltd. of Hong Kong in August 1949 registered VR-HES. After being sold to another company, the aircraft returned to the US registry of N1514V and was owned by two companies in Newark, New Jersey until being sold to Hollinger Ungava Transport Ltd. of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada on December 28, 1951 and registered CF-GHX.

On June 28, 1954, it was sold to Gunnar Mines Ltd. & Nesbitt Labine Uranium Mines Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario; the registration was transferred to Gunnar-Nesbitt Aviation Ltd. of Toronto on April 21, 1955. During this period, the aircraft flew from Edmonton, Alberta to Uranium City, Saskatchewan, 365 trips a year, for ten years. It went back into scheduled service when sold to the Canadian airline Eastern Provincial Airways Ltd. (EPA) of St. John's, Newfoundland on June 8, 1965 until sold to the Canadian charter airline Gander Aviation Ltd. of Gander, Newfoundland on October 19, 1971. It was only used for instructional use by Gander Aviation.

The plane was donated to the Gander District Vocational School in Gander, Newfoundland and sent to the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Bedford, Nova Scotia for restoration. It was returned to the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in Gander and the tail section of this DC-3 is mounted over the main entrance, while the nose section of the aircraft is at the rear of the building. The aircraft is painted in Eastern Provincial Airlines markings."