Date:	Friday 19 August 1955
Time:
Type:	Douglas SC-47A
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	42-108944
MSN:	13288
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	19 km NE of Hawthorne, NV -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Reno-Stead AFB, NV (KRTS)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The Douglas SC-47A took off in a seven-ship formation for a classified training mission. The aircraft impacted a mountain in the Gillis Mountain Range, a few feet below the summit at about 6000 feet.

Lodi News-Sentinel - Aug 20, 1955
The Victoria Advocate - Aug 21, 1955
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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