Aircraft Photo of ZS-FRM | Douglas DC-3D | Comair | AirHistory.net #313713
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:ZS-FRM
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-3
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota)
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-3D
C/n (msn):42963
Operator Titles:Comair
Location
City / Airport:SkukuzaMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FASZ   IATA: SZK   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:January 1987
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 313713
Photo Comment

A pair of Comair DC-3s at Skukuza in January 1987. The Dakota in the background is ZS-DRJ. ZS-FRM first flew in 1946 and was built uncompleted C-117 parts. She joined Det Danske Luftfartsselskab as OY-DCU and was named "Ulf Viking", a name she continued to carry when DDL became a constituent member of SAS. She went to Linjeflyg as SE-CFU and later Austrian as OE-LBN. Moving to South Africa, she joined Comair's fleet in 1968. She ended her life in Africa serving in Zimbabwe as Z-WRU and later Kenya as 5Y-BIL. In the late 1990s she was damaged in Nairobi and written off.

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