Aircraft Photo of HK-122 | Douglas C-47 Skytrain | SELVA - Servicios Aéreos del Vaupes | AirHistory.net #509773
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:HK-122
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-3
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota)
Aircraft Version:Douglas C-47 Skytrain
C/n (msn):4414
Operator Titles:SELVA - Servicios Aéreos del Vaupes
Location
City / Airport:Villavicencio - VanguardiaMap
Country:Colombia
Airport Codes:ICAO: SKVV   IATA: VVC   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:12 November 1992
Photo by:Tim Spearman
Photo ID: 509773
Photo Comment

Delivered to the USAAF as 41-18376 in 1942. Sold onto the civil register as N22421 in 1945 and exported to Avianca in Colombia in 1947 as C-122. Re-registered HK-122 in 1955 and later flew with El Venado and Aeronorte before joining Selva in 1980. Sold to Lineas Aereas El Dorado in 1995, with Aliansa by 1999 and finally Sadelca. Sold by them in 2011 and registered HK-122G, having survived 56 years operating in Colombia, she is believed to have been destroyed in Honduras in July 2011 at the end of a drug running flight.

This photo is copyright © Tim Spearman, and may not be used or published in any way without permission.

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