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AP-AAK |
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October 1947 |
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Orient Airways |
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Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain |
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| Construction Number: |
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11881 |
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1942 |
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VT-CPK |
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OO-CBY |
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SABENA |
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Construction number 11881,
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number
42-92116. Registered in India as VT-CGE for Orient Airways,
November 1946.
Registered in India as VT-CPK for Orient Airways, 1947.
Registration VT-CPK 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-AAK, on October 1, 1947 for Orient
Airways. Registration AP-AAK removed from Pakistan Aircraft
Register on June 3, 1953. Registered in Belgium as OO-CBY for SABENA (Societe
Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne) on
June 9, 1953. To Libya in 1959. Leased to Libyan National
Airways (Linair) in 1962. Belgian International Air Services
July 1, 1965. To Belgium in August 10, 1972. Registered in
USA as N6894 for Transvaal Corporation July 5, 1973.
Registered in Canada as C-GADY for Easty Exec Import Ltd,
Dorval, PQ, Quebec, March 12, 1975. Air Gava, Schefferville,
PQ, Quebec, 1975. Les Services Aeriens Fortair Ltde.
Registration cancelled in February 1982. Registered in USA
as N2668N for Century Airlines, Pontiac, Michigan in May
1982. Registered in Spain as EC-699. Registered in Spain as
EC-FDH, Aeromarket. Damaged during landing at the airport of
Sabadell (near Barcelona), Spain, in April 1992. Nose
section preserved at an aviation shop in Barcelona, Spain.
Fuselage section at Haus der Geschichte - Haus der
Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - (House of the
History of the Federal Republic of Germany) in Bonn,
Germany. |
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