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Registration: 979

Construction Number: 26641

Code Number: KN979

Military Unit: Unknown

Model Douglas C-47B Dakota

Operator: Royal Canadian Air Force

Airport: Blackbushe Airport (BBS / EGLK), UK - England

Photographer: Dave Welch Collection

Date Taken: 02/09/1958

Date Submitted: 12/10/2018

Original C S Waterfall. Year is a guess and location is believed to be correct. Probably. CAF C-47s wore camouflage in the 50s...this was recorded in A-B logs at St Mawgan 28Jun1958 wearing the incorrect marks KN979 and appears in a 1964 Gunter Grondstein photo with the pointed Starfighter nose as KN979, reserialled 12959 it is now preserved in Canada with the pointed nose.

Picture ID:1625208

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