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AP-ABB Registration Details

 
Registration:   AP-ABB
     
Certificate of Registration Number:   28
     
Registration Date:   February 23, 1948
     
Operator/Owner:   Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
     
Aircraft Type:   Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain
     
Construction Number:   6216
     
Line Number:    
     
Year Built:   1943
     
SelCal Code:    
     
First Flight:    
     
Test Flight Registration:    
     
Delivery Date:    
     
Aircraft Name:   "City of Cox's Bazaar"
     
Previous Registration:   NC58181
     
Previous Operator:   Norseman Air Transport
     
Fate:    
     
Next Registration:   9N-AAH
     
Next Operator:   Royal Nepal Airlines
     
Additional Remarks:   Construction number 6216, United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number 41-38757, delivery January 6, 1943. To North Africa Wing, Air Transport Command (ATC), May 29, 1943. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), November 18, 1945. Registration NC60326 in United States of America (USA) not taken up. Registered in USA as NC74590 and operated by Norseman Air Transport. Registered in Pakistan as AP-ABB on February 23, 1948, 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 Cox's Bazaar". Registration AP-ABB removed from Pakistan Aircraft Register on February 21, 1961. Aircraft sold to Royal Nepal Airlines and registered in Nepal as 9N-AAH on July 24, 1962. On August 1, 1962, 9N-AAH was operating Royal Nepal Airlines flight from Kathmandu (Nepal) to New Delhi (India) when it crashed near Tulachan Dhuri in Nepal. All four crew members and six passengers died in this accident. Aircraft wreckage was found on August 9, 1962, on a mountain top at 11200 feet altitude.
     
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Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain

Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain  (Abbas Ali Collection)

 

Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain (registration AP-ABB)

 

 

 

 

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