Registration / Serial: | G-DAKS |
Alternate Serial: | TS423 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 19347 |
Display Paint: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Biggin Hill (EGKB / BQH)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Event: | Battle of Britain Air Day 1979 |
Photo Date: | 22 September 1979 |
Photo by: | Paul SeymourContact |
Photo ID: | 376543Submit Correction |
View count: | 481 |
Delivered to the USAAF as 42-100884 in 1943. To the RAF as TS423 in 1944. After the war she went to Short Brothers, Scottish Aviation, Marshalls and Ferranti. At Ferranti she acquired a non standard nose for testing air pass radar for the Lightning fighter. Saved from the scrapman by Aces High in 1979 and registered as G-DAKS a few days before this photo was taken. Later fitted with a normal nose. Reregistered as N147DC in 1998.
Registration / Serial: | G-DAKS |
Alternate Serial: | TS423 |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 19347 |
Display Paint: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Biggin Hill (EGKB / BQH)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 22 September 1979 |
Photo by: | Paul SeymourContact |
Registration / Serial: | G-DAKS |
Alternate Serial: | TS423 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 19347 |
Display Paint: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Biggin Hill (EGKB / BQH)Map |
Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Event: | Battle of Britain Air Day 1979 |
Photo Date: | 22 September 1979 |
Photo by: | Paul SeymourContact |
Photo ID: | 376543Submit Correction |
View count: | 481 |
Delivered to the USAAF as 42-100884 in 1943. To the RAF as TS423 in 1944. After the war she went to Short Brothers, Scottish Aviation, Marshalls and Ferranti. At Ferranti she acquired a non standard nose for testing air pass radar for the Lightning fighter. Saved from the scrapman by Aces High in 1979 and registered as G-DAKS a few days before this photo was taken. Later fitted with a normal nose. Reregistered as N147DC in 1998.
Registration / Serial: | G-DAKS |
Alternate Serial: | TS423 |
Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
C/n (msn): | 19347 |
Display Paint: | UK - Air Force |
City / Airport: | Biggin Hill (EGKB / BQH)Map | Region / Country: | England, United Kingdom |
Photo Date: | 22 September 1979 |
Photo by: | Paul SeymourContact |