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Registration: G-AKNB

Construction Number: 9043

Model Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain

Operator: Intra Airways (JY)

Airport: Exeter (EXT / EGTE), UK - England

Photographer: Chris England

Date Taken: 12/04/1976

Date Submitted: 17/03/2011

Ex RAF FD789, painted in fictitious RAF marks CR496 for its role as Winston Churchill's transport in the movie The Eagle Has Landed. It became EI-BDU on 18/10/78, restored as G-AKNB on 29/01/82, before going to the USA as N59NA on 22/7/85. It then flew (with its original USAAF serial) as 42-32817/3J-B, with the name Bones, in spurious D-Day colours. 07/11/14 – To Basler Turbo Conversions, LLC, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for conversion to Basler BT-67. 10/08/18 - To AIRTEC as N141PR. 16/10/19 - To Ken Borek Air Ltd as C-GOOU.

Picture ID:1281660

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