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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:CC-129 Dakota
    Last Military Serial:12913 CAF
    Construction Number:12327
    Last Civil Registration:C-GWZS
    Latest Owner or Location:Buffalo Airways, Yellowknife Airport, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47A-5-DK by Douglas at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

    14 January 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-92518.

    5 February 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n KG330 as a Dakota III.
    Received at RAF Montreal.

    Circa 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 12913 as a CC-129.

    From By 1982 to By 1988

    To Northwest Territorial Airways, Yellowknife with new c/r C-GWZS.

    28 September 1988

    To Buffalo Airways Ltd, Hay River, NT keeping c/r C-GWZS.

    5 August 1998


    Photographer: Bob Holland
    Notes: A Buffalo DC-3 gracing the ramp at Yellowknife

    Operated by Buffalo Airways, Hay River, NT.
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    Based at Buffalo Airways, Yellowknife Airport, Yellowknife, NT.
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