Aircraft Photo of D-IGVN | Dornier 228-100 | Alfred Wegener Institute - AWI | AirHistory.net #582627
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:D-IGVN
Aircraft Original Type:Dornier 228
Aircraft Generic Type:Dornier 228
Aircraft Version:Dornier 228-100
C/n (msn):7039
Operator Titles:Alfred Wegener Institute - AWI
Aircraft Name:Polar 3
Location
Location:Not known
Country:Antarctica
 
Photo Date:December 1984
Photo from:JHM Collection
Photo ID: 582627
Photo Comment

Very short-lived aircraft from the Alfred Wegener Institute (logo on tail). It was delivered to the institute on 16 October 1984 and immediately deployed to Antarctica. On 24 February 1985, while on the way back to Germany, it was shot down and destroyed by Frente Polisario guerrillas over the Western Sahara in Africa.

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