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AP-AAB |
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Certificate of Registration Number: |
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Registration Date: |
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October 1947 |
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Operator/Owner: |
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Orient Airways |
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Aircraft Type: |
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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain |
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Construction Number: |
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6241 |
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Year Built: |
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1943 |
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Previous Registration: |
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VT-CPB |
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Next Registration: |
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G-AGGA |
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Additional Remarks: |
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Construction number 6241,
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number 42-5653,
delivery January
22, 1943. To Royal Air Force (RAF) as Dakota I, serial FD777. Registered in
United Kingdom (UK) as G-AGGA, British Overseas Airways
Corporation (BOAC), March 8, 1943, in RAF colors with code "ODZDK",
operated by RAF. Noted in BOAC fleet, December 31, 1945.
Noted as withdrawn from use, February 28, 1947. Noted on
March 20, 1947, list as cannibalised. Registered in India as VT-CPB for Orient
Airways, 1947. Registration VT-CPB not taken up by Orient
Airways. Initially VT-CP*
registration series starting from registration VT-CPA from
India's civil aircraft register was reserved for aircraft to
be registered in then newly independent Pakistan. However
registrations in Indian series VT-CP* were not taken up by
aircraft to be registered in Pakistan and eventually
registration of those aircraft began in Pakistan with
Pakistan's own aircraft registration nationality mark. Registered in
Pakistan as AP-AAB
in
October 1947 for Orient Airways. Registration AP-AAB removed from Pakistan
Aircraft Register on January
6, 1948. Re-registered in UK as G-AGGA, to Airways Training Limited, July 7, 1948. James D. Pyper, July
10, 1948. Sold July 10, 1948. Registered
in France as F-OACA
for Roger
Colin/Air Outre-Mer (AOM), May 28, 1949. Compagnie Aerienne
de Transports Indochinois (CATI) crashed September 12,
1950, Son La, Tonkin, Indochina (Vietnam). |
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