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Originally 42-93524. Operated by Curries Machinery Co. Photo by Steve Kraus.

Early morning at Sola, Saturday May 30th 1987, the main day of the Air Show 1987. What a Joy it was to enter the airport and see this beautiful Dakota of Flygande Veteraner standing in the morning sun.

Built 1943 for USAAF and delivd as 43-30732. September 12th 1946 LN-IAF for Det Norske Luftfartsselskap -DNL, named "Nordfugl". In 1948 LN-IAF was transferred fot SAS, repainted to the 1948 variation of SAS colours and renamed "Fridjof Viking". Augsut 1957 rr to SE-CFP for Linjeflyg. Later 79006 for the Swedish Air Force, fleet no 709. 1984 SECFP for Stiftelsen "Flygande Veteraner" and repainted to the 9148 livery of SAS colours, except for the font used on "Scandinavian Airlines System", This font was not introduced before 1957, and that is the same year it left SAS. Seen at take-off rwy 36

One of two French Navy Dakota's from 56S visiting Luton on a training flight. This one is the former USAAF 42-100521 which operated in Europe during WWII. To the US civil register as NC65384 on 26 Apr 1948. To N308SF on 26 Mar 1953. To N45V on 28 Feb 1962. To the Aeronavale as 18954 on 05 Mar 1963, later to 84. To the US as N98BF in Sep 1985 for Basler Flight Services. To Dodson Int' Corp as N308SF on 11 Aug 1992. Shipped to Coventry on 17 Jan 2017 where restoration is carrying on to restore her as 42-100521. Eventually to be based at Membury in flying condition.

One of two French Navy Dakota's from 56S visiting Luton on a training flight. This one is the former USAAF 42-23936 and operated during WWII in North Africa and Europe. Later going to CSA as OK-WDU until 1958. From 1958 to 1983 with the Aeronavale as 36. in 1983 to France as F-GEOM with Stellair and later Transvalair. To the UK in 1994 as G-DAKK with Classic Airways, South Coast Airways and Air Atlantique. In 2006 moved to storage at the Aviadrome in Lelystad. Currently with Classic Wings for restoration. Registration G-DAKK still current in 2024.

used for parachuting at the time - looking a lot better than 10 years before

operated by TAVIC (Transportes Aereos Virgen del Carmen) at the time - and in desperate need of a new paintjob - photographer unknown

As 44-92847 , this C-47 was the lead aircraft opening the D-Day Invasion. It dropped paratroopers of the 101st Airborne behind Utah Beach just before 1AM on June 6, 1944. Sold surplus in 1946, it became NC88874 with United Gas Corporation. Pictured in the transient cargo area at Toronto, I did not have time to find out about the significance of the feathered propeller on the left engine. The aircraft was restored for the 75th anniversary of of D Day and is current with the American Airpower Heritage Museum at the time of uploading.

Ex USAF 42-24248, RAF FL527 and SAAF 6862. To ZS-NZA in August 1996 and to Air Katanga/ITAB of Lubumbashi as 9Q-CJJ in April 1999. Withdrawn from use and moved to a point approximately 30km to the north of the city by 2018. Still visible on satellite images in May 2022.

Ex ZS-BRW, KG651, 42-108962. Became SU-AZI on 5 November 1976 and restored as G-AMHJ on 26 August 1977. Registration cancelled on 23 January 2003 as withdrawn from use and presented by Air Atlantique to the Assault Glider Trust, RAF Shawbury, where it was displayed in RAF colours as KG651. It was moved to Metheringham Airfield Visitors Centre in Lincolnshire on 16 November 2015, where it is preserved under cover.

Dakota heaven Villavicencio in 2008. HK-1175 was delivered 43-15966 in 1944. To NC53474 and NC65743 in 1946, N65743, N3935C, CF-DME in 1956, N5592A in 1959 and to Lineas Areas La Uracca as HK-1175 in 1964. To Transamazonica in 1985 then to Air Colombia by 2008, the year this picture was taken.

Apparently one of the first C-47s in PAL service, delivered in 1946. Ex 43-48167. Photo by: Harrison Forman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

This is ex PT-KUC in fake Fuerza Aerea Colombiana colours as HK-123. Parque Jaime Duque is north of Bogota and has a few classic airacrft. The park is adjacent to the new location of the Museo Aeroespacial Colombiano (since 2016).

US Army Air Force 42-23951 was transferred to Qantas as VH-AFA in August 1944. Later VH-AEZ with Trans Australian Airlines, the aircraft worked it's way around the world as VR-NCO, 5B-AA, EI-ANK, G-ATBE before coming to Canada in 1970 for North Coast Air Services. Pictured with Ilford Riverton Airways (later Air Manitoba), the aircraft was last flying for Points North Air Service 1994 - 98, it was donated to the Saskatchewan Aviation Museum in 2014.