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AP-AAA |
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| Certificate of Registration Number: |
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| Registration Date: |
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October 1947 |
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Orient Airways |
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| Aircraft Type: |
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Douglas C-47B-10-DK Skytrain |
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| Construction Number: |
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14978 |
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| Line Number: |
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26423 |
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| Year Built: |
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1944 |
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VT-CPA |
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G-AGMZ |
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British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) |
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Construction number 14978, line number
26423,
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number
43-49162, delivery October 24, 1944. To Royal Air Force
(RAF) as Dakota IV, serial KJ985,
Montreal, October 26, 1944. To United Kingdom (UK), November 10, 1944.
Registered in UK as G-AGMZ for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
December 9, 1944,
flown with RAF code '0FZK7'. Registered in India as
VT-CPA for Orient Airways, 1947. Registration VT-CPA 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-AAA in
October 1947 for Orient Airways. Registration AP-AAA removed
from Pakistan Aircraft Register on October 28, 1947. Re-registered
in UK as G-AGMZ for BOAC
Associates in December 1947. Based at Cairo, July 31, 1949. Sold, February 1, 1950. Registered in Hong Kong as VR-AAE, operated by Aden Airways, February 1, 1950.
Registered in United States of America (USA) as N9935F,
leased to Nadir. Leased to Libyan American Oil Co. (LIAMCO). Returned to Aden Airways
and re-registered VR-AAE. Leased to Air Jordan and
registered in Jordan as JY-ABW in April 1955. Sold to Transocean Airlines
and registered in USA as N9820F April 25, 1957. Leased to Air Jordan and re-registered
in Jordan as JY-ABW. Leased to
Oil Exploration Air Service and re-registered in USA as N9820F.
Leased to Sahara Petroleum Company, International Aviation Development Corporation. (1965/1966).
Libyan Aviation Company (LAVCO) (Diamond
Leasing Corp, Reno, Nevada). (1966/1967). Re-registered in
USA as N482F LAVCO (1972) ATC Inc, Valletta. January 11, 1977,
taken by Libyan Army for
target practice. |
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