Delivered to the USAAF as 42-92597 then transferred to the RAF as KG385 and the SAAF as 6828 in 1944. Converted to a C-47TP in 1999. Fitted out as an Electronic Warfare platform serving with the SAAF's Electronic Warfare Centre whose badge is on the tail, flown by 35 Sqd crews. Stored at Snake Valley, Gauteng Jan 2002 and Ysterplaat from Sep 2006. Photographer unknown

Delivered to the USAAF September 1945, to the RAF as FL563 December 1943 and the SAAF October 1945 serving at AFB Ysterplaat with the station flight and 25 Sqd for a long time as the Dazzle Dak target tug. Converted to C-47TP and operated by 35 Squadron from july 1998. Suffered a runway excursion at Mthatha in November 2012. Photographer unknown

Eventually to Missionary Flights as N300MF in 2015.

Parked at the time. ICRC titles partly removed.

Crashed on take-off Pretoria-Wonderboom August 1998

Ex 45-0962, NZ3553, ZK-ERI, D6-CAE and SAAF 6871(2). Registered as ZS-LJI in August 1982 and converted to DC-3-65TP by Wonderair. Operated by Virunga Air and later Professional Aviation Services, it was impounded at Beira, Mozambique in July 1998, allegedly for cigarette smuggling. Stored in a hangar there until 2013 when it was parked outside. Still present in a derelict condition in April 2023.

Operating for 44 Sqn, visiting Louis Trichardt from its base at Waterkloof. In 1998 all of 44 Sqns C-47TPs were transferred to 35 Sqn at Ysterplat for use in the maritime surveillance role. 6885 is still active with the unit in 2022.

This former SAAF Dakota has a very interesting history. Delivered to the RNZAF's 40 Sqd as NZ3546 in June 1945 where it served until July 1952 when it was passed on to New Zealand National Airways as ZK-AWQ. Returned to the the RNZAF in April 1961 where it served until wftu in 1977. After a further two years on the NZ register as ZK-AWQ, it was sold to the Comores as D6-CAG as part the SAAF clandestine scheme to replenish its transport fleet circumventing UN imposed sanctions on the country. In the SAAF it served as 6863 before being converted to at Turbo Dak seen here during conversion at PRY

Ex 42-93608 and RAF KG672. Delivered to South African AF as C-47A in July 1944.

Parked or stored with the #2 prop missing.

Delivered to the USAAF as 44-76312 then to the RAF as KN334 and the SAAF as 6882 in 1945. Converted to a C-47TP by 1999. Registered as ZS-MAP in 2003 then N882TP in 2009. Current on the register in 2022.

Originally a C-47A, converted to C-47TP Turbo Dakota in the early 1990s.

Originally a C-47B, converted to C-47TP Turbo Dakota in the early 1990s. It is the second SAAF DC-3 to carry this serial. In 1944 and 1945 the serial 6845 was also carried by c/n 26114/14669.

Operated with the SAAF from 1945, flying for many years as a target tug for 25 Squadron from Ysterplat. Converted to C-47TP in the late 1990s and operated by 35 Squadron also based at Ysterplat. Involved in a runway excursion landing at Mthatha in November 2012 and believed written off.

Built as 44-76616, delivered to the RAF in 1945 as KN472 and to the South African Air Force later the same year as 6868. Converted to DC3-65TP status in 1995 and sold to Dodson Aviation in July 1998 as N194RD becoming ZS-OIR in November 1998 and returning to N194RD in August 1999. The evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritans Purse bought the aircraft in August 2001.