Aircraft Photo of 6875 | AMI C-47TP | South Africa - Air Force | AirHistory.net #877558
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:6875
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-3
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota)
Aircraft Version:AMI C-47TP
Manufacturers:Douglas / AMI
C/n (msn):11746
Operator Titles:South Africa - Air Force
Unit Markings:44 Sqn
Location
Location:In Flight
Country:South Africa
 
Photo Date:September 1995
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 877558
Photo Comment

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-68819. Post-war conversion to DC-3A and to Svenska Kyrkans Missionsstyrelse as SE-APG Feb 1946 for missionary flights, later Nordiskt Missionsflyg. To AB Aerotransport July 19848, SAS from July 1949. To SNCSAO as F-BEIS January 1951, to French Air Force as 68819, to Brabier as F-BRGI November 1972, to Yugoslav Air Force as 71237, to YU-ABW November 1979. Then it gets interesting. Sold to Atlas Aircraft in Miami, FL as N8071Z and stored at Riem. In March 1981 she was registered 9Q-CYI and flown to South Africa bypassing the UN embargo on the country and given the SAAF serial 6875. This is the second 6875, the first was written off in 1964. Later converted to Turbo Dak. Photographer unknown

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