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AP-AAN |
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Certificate of Registration Number: |
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Registration Date: |
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October 1947 |
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Operator/Owner: |
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Orient Airways |
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Aircraft Type: |
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Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain |
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Construction Number: |
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12222 |
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Year Built: |
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1943 |
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Aircraft Name: |
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Previous Registration: |
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VT-CPN |
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Next Registration: |
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G-AGZC |
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Next Operator: |
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BOAC |
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Additional Remarks: |
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Construction number 12222, United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), serial number
42-92423, delivery December 27, 1943. To Royal Air
Force (RAF), serial FZ662, Montreal, January 22, 1944. United Kingdom 575
Squadron February 26, 1944. Registered in United Kingdom
(UK) as
G-AGZC for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC),
February 19, 1946. To British European Airways (BEA), August
19, 1946. To BOAC, August 11, 1947. Registered in India as VT-CPN
for Orient Airways, 1947. Registration VT-CPN 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-AAN
on October 1, 1947, for Orient Airways. Re-registered in UK
as G-AGZC
for BOAC in December 1947. Registration AP-AAN removed from
Pakistan Aircraft Register on
January 6, 1948. G-AGZC
for BEA, September 20, 1949. Made part of BEA DC-3 fleet
and given name 'Pionair'. Aircraft named 'Samuel Cody'.
Ministry of Civil Aviation (MCA), February 26, 1961. Mali
aircraft registration
CT-AAA for Air Mali not taken up. Registered in Mali as TZ-ABA
for Air Mali delivered, March 6, 1961. Registration cancelled
in 1971. |
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