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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:C-49K
    Last Military Serial:43-2017 USAAF
    Construction Number:06341
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-BWY
    Latest Owner or Location:Mercury Aviation Services

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-3-455.

    Civil registration NC30039 reserved but not taken up.

    Redesignated as C-49K.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-2017.

    Circa 28 March 1947

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4425N {2} (DC3-G202A, 6341) issued.

    28 March 1947

    To Executive Transport Corp, Grand Prairie, TX with c/r N4425N {2}.

    2 March 1948

    Civil registration, N4425N {2}, cancelled.

    By 15 May 1948

    To Mercury Aviation Services with c/r ZS-BWY (Douglas C-49K (DC-3), 6341).

    15 May 1948

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. There were 13 fatalities. The domestic scheduled passenger flight departed Durban-Stamford Hill Airport, South Africa and was destined for Johannesburg-Palmietfontein Airport, South Africa. The accident occurred at 32 km (20 mls) S of Vrede (South Africa) while en route. Narrative: The aircraft was on the Durban-Johannesburg leg of a flight to London when it crashed into Spitzkop mountain in the Witkoppens Mountains. The aircraft, named City of Durban, was 8 miles off track in bad weather...

    Written off.


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