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That's 42-32802, Douglas Construction Number 9028.

It was built as a Douglas C-47-DL



It went to the USAAF Feb 10, 1943



It went to the RFC on Oct 11, 1945.



RFC: Reconstruction Finance Corporation -- a government agency founded in 1932 to give aid to state and local governments and to make loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses. During the war, the RFC made loans to enterprises essential to the war effort. It also supervised the sale and disposal of excess and surplus aircraft at the end of the war.



To civil registry as:

NC9562H

N13875 National Automotive Fibres Inc. of Detroit, MI (nicknamed "The Administrator") in Nov. 1953

N75C Detroit Steel Corp of Detroit, MI, 1966

N7503 Ohio Univ Inc, Athens, OH in 1968

N1800U Oct. 1969

N1800D Jungle Aviation & Radio Service Inc, Waxhaw, NC. Nov 1971

CP-1020 (Instituto Linguistico de Verano Mar 23, 1973)

N92578 (Jungle  Aviation & Radio Service Aug 27, 1981

N92578 California Air Tours Inc, CA, 03 Aug1989

N92578 Nostalgia Air Tours in Hawaii,  Van Nuys, CA 1990

N92578 DC-3 Inc., Nantucket, MA June 7th 1991

During the 1990s it was completely overhauled by the Santa Barbara Aerospace Company at San Bernardino Airport, CA

N92578 Registered to Richard Brown of Rockwall,TX 30 Jul 2001

N92578 Airborne Imaging Inc, Jan 29th 2004

Noted Mar 2, 2007 at Base Aerea Coronel Hector Carracioli Moncada, La Celba, Honduras, believed on anti-narcotics work



http://www.tumi-chucua.mknet.org/Graphics/CP1020.jpg



http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2878/11015688964_f317e89e22.jpg



http://www.flickr.com/photos/egcb_egcc/8472042521/



http://www.airborneimaging.net/images/IMG_0600.JPG



http://www.abcdlist.nl/photo/dc3/cp1020.html



http://images2.jetphotos.net/img/1/9/4/1/53824_1281985149.jpg



http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1034268F.jpg

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Could it be a camera and not a FLIR pod and they are using it for aerial photograpy for a movie or advertising? Just a guess.