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C-47 SKYTRAIN/44-76613
Douglas C-47 Skytrain 44-76613
Serial #: 44-76613
Construction #: 16197/32945
Civil Registration:
  G-ANMA
  VH-MML
  P2-MML
  P2-ANV
  VH-BPN
Model(s):
  C-47B-30-DK Skytrain
  Dakota IV
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2020
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 44-76613.
  • BOC: March 26, 1945
Transferred to Royal Air Force for MAAF as Dakota IV/KN 470.
  • Delivered via RAF Montreal, March 28, 1945.
  • Assigned to RAF Middle East, April 09, 1945.
  • Transferred to 28 Sqn SAAF.
  • Transferred to ACSEA, May 31, 1945.
  • Transferred to 96 Sqn RAF
  • Returned to USAAF, November 27, 1947.
Delivered to Pakistan Air Force as H-717.
Field Aircraft Services Ltd, January 11, 1954.
  • Registered as G-AMMA.
  • Registration cancelled February 18, 1954.
MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Ltd, Australia, February 1954.
  • Registered as VH-MML, July 1, 1955.
  • Named "Lyndon"
Ansett of Papua New Guinea, January 10, 1969.
Ansett Papua & 1 G, May 23, 1973.
Air Niugini, May 1, 1974.
  • Registered as P2-MML May 6, 1974.
  • Registered as P2-ANV, October 21, 1975.
Bush Pilots Airways, October 20, 1977.
  • Registered as VH-BPN
Air Queensland, January 8, 1982-November 5, 1987.
R. P. Dick Lang, Highbury, South Australia, July 2, 1992.
Desert Air Safaris, November 1992.
R. Starr, North Gosford, NSW, July 1995.
Dakota National Air (aust.) Pty. Limited, Gosford, NSW, September 13, 1995.
Discovery Air Tours, 2003.
Dakota Management Pty Limited, Gosford, NSW, June 8, 2006.
Ralph Gordon Chrystall, Larras Lee, NSW, Australia, August 19, 2015-2020.
Photo Source(s):
Ian McDonell

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