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C-47 SKYTRAIN/43-49869

Serial #: 43-49869
Construction #: 15685/27130
Civil Registration:
  VH-CUY
  P65-004
  P2-004
  VH-ATO
  VH-DNA

Model(s):
  C-47B-30-DK Skytrain
  Dakota IV
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2009

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-49869.

• BOC: January 11, 1945

Transferred to Royal Australian Air Force as A65-68, January 23, 1945.

• Assigned to 3 AD, January 23, 1945.
• Transferred to 38 Sqn RAAF, February 5, 1945.
• Radio call sign VH-CUY
• Force landed engine falure Roma, March 06, 1946.
• Pilot and crew with 26 passengers uninjured.
• Transferred to ARDU RAAF Base Flight Darwin, 1973.

Transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defense Force as P65-004 (later P2-004), January 1976.
P Starr, Newcastle, 1994.

• Registered as VH-ATO.

Dakota National Air, Bankstown, NSW, Australia, May 19, 1994.

• Registered as VH-DNA.
• Withdrawn from service.

Larras Lee, NSW, Australia, December 2009.

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