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AP-AAC |
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Certificate of Registration Number: |
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Registration Date: |
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October 1947 |
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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) |
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Aircraft Type: |
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Douglas C-47A-30-DL Skytrain |
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Construction Number: |
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9543 |
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Year Built: |
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1943 |
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Delivery Date: |
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Aircraft Name: |
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"City of Khulna" |
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Previous Registration: |
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VT-CPC |
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Fate: |
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Damaged beyond repair March 22, 1961 |
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Additional Remarks: |
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Construction number 9543,
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number 42-23681, delivery
May 15, 1943. To Royal Air Force (RAF) as Dakota III, serial
FD891, May 20, 1943. Middle
East August 24, 1943. 28 Squadron South African Air Force (SAAF) and 44 Squadron SAAF December
22, 1943. Air Command South East Asia (ACSEA), May 31, 1945.
Registered in India as VT-CIC for Orient Airways,
December 16, 1946. Registered in India as VT-CPC for Orient
Airways, 1947. Registration VT-CPC 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-AAC in October 1947 for Orient Airways.
Transferred to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on April 1, 1955.
Flown by PIA with designation Douglas DC-3 Dakota. Aircraft
named "City of Khulna". AP-AAC damaged beyond repair at Paksey,
Pakistan, on
March 22, 1961.
Registration AP-AAC removed from Pakistan Aircraft Register on May 13,
1961. |
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Photo: |
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Douglas
C-47A-30-DL Skytrain
(Abbas Ali Collection) |
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Douglas C-47A-30-DL Skytrain (registration AP-AAC) |
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