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SKYTRAIN/44-76777

Serial #: 44-76777
Construction #: 16361/33109
Civil Registration:
  VH-ATO
  VH-DNF

Model(s):
  C-47B-40-DK Skytrain
Name: None
Status: Unknown
Last info: 2015

History:
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 44-76777.

• BOC: April 24, 1945.

Delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force as Dakota A65-100, May 13, 1945.

• Assigned radio call sign VH-RFQ.
• Assigned to 35 Squadron, May 13, 1945.
• Force landed after engine trouble Rockhampton, February 12, 1946.
• Nineteen crew and passengers uninjured.
• Port engine failed forcing crew to dump freight to maintain height, June 02, 1946.
• Landed at Laong Strip.
• Crew and passengers uninjured.
• Transferred to 36 Squadron, July 22, 1947.
• Transferred to 86 Wing, January 1953.
• Transferred to RAAF TU Iwakuni, January 1973.
• Transferred to SoAN School RAAF Base East Sale, July 1975.

Delivered to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force as P65-100, 1975-1994.

• Later coded P2-001.

P. Starr, Newcastle, 1994.

• Register as VH-ATO.

Dakota National Air, 19??.

• Registration VH-DNF reserved, but not taken up.

Butler Air Transport Museum, Tooraweenah, NSW, March 2013-2014.
David Salter, April 12, 2015.

• Transported by road to his property at Walcha, September 23, 2015

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