List of C-47 Skytrain operators includes the country, military service, known squadrons, and related data.
The C-47 has served with over 90 countries outside of the United States: The Hellenic Air Force's received a total of 78 aircraft, in several batches, with 26 ex-RAF Dakota IVs received from 1947 to 1949, 16 ex-USAAF C-47s in 1947–48, 30 C-47s supplied from the US under the Mutual Assistance Program and six aircraft from Olympic Airways in 1963.
The Swedish Air Force started using C-47s soon after World War II for transport purposes.
A few were converted to SIGINT platforms and eavesdropped on Soviet radio communications and radar stations in the 1950s.
One such aircraft was shot down by Soviet fighters in international airspace over the Baltic Sea in 1952 with all of the crew killed.
Royal Air Force Dakota III
Two USAAF C-47A Skytrains over France, 1944
British paratroops inside C-47 Dakota, 1944
Douglas Dakota 6859, South African Air Force, 2008
This 1943 C-47 served as the President of Finland's official airplane in the 1970s, as Finnish Air Force DO-9.
Luftwaffe Douglas C-47B Skytrain .
The single operational C-47 of the Hellenic Air Force.
A Honduran Douglas C-47A-20-DK Skytrain aircraft (FAH 304, c/n 12962, ex-USAF 42-93089) taking off for a joint US/Honduran parachute jump during a mobilization of US exercise "Task Force Dragon/Golden Pheasant" in 1988.
