| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | ZK-BKE |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) |
| Aircraft Version: | Douglas C-50 |
| C/n (msn): | 4119 |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Auckland - InternationalMap |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: NZAA IATA: AKL Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 15 October 1967 |
| Photo from: | AustAirData Collection |
| Photo ID: | 580808 |
| Photo Comment |
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Built for American Airlines and taken over the USAAF as a C-50. Cargo doors fitted on the right side where American AL DC-3s had their passenger doors . Sold to Australian National Airways postwar as VH-ANI and fitted with Wright R-1820 engines in place of Pratt and Whitney R-1830s. Sold in New Zealand in 1955. Pratt and Whitney R-1830s refitted. ZK-BKE was sold in Laos in 1968. Bob Kerr photo This photo was added on 24 June 2023, and has since been viewed 238 times. |