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AP-AAB Registration Details

 
Registration:   AP-AAB
     
Certificate of Registration Number:   2
     
Registration Date:   October 1947
     
Operator/Owner:   Orient Airways
     
Aircraft Type:   Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain
     
Construction Number:   6241
     
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Year Built:   1943
     
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Previous Registration:   VT-CPB
     
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Next Registration:   G-AGGA
     
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Additional Remarks:   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 Noted as withdrawn from use, February 28, 1947.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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