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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:Dakota III
    Last Military Serial:FL516 RAF
    Construction Number:10099
    Last Civil Registration:5B-CBA
    Latest Owner or Location:Worldinter Supply Services, Nicosia, Cyprus

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-50-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-24237.

    8 September 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n FL516 as a Dakota III.

    15 September 1943

    To British Overseas Aircraft Corporation (BOAC) with c/r G-AGHS.

    27 June 1947

    To British European Airways.
    Markings added: Horace Short

    1963

    To Cambrian Airways.

    5 November 1967


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Cardiff Airport, Wales

    April 1969

    To Worldinter Supply Services, Nicosia, Cyprus with c/r 5B-CBA.

    Abandoned.
    Derelict at Beirut, Lebanon.

    1976

    Civil registration, 5B-CBA, cancelled.

    Scrapped.
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