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The C-47A F-AZTE, s/n 9172, was a a RAF or USAF aircraft which served for the Normandy Landing as a tug aircraft and for the paratroopers transport over Ste Mère Église the 6 June 1944 before to do the Provence landing the 15 August 1944 and in the operation Market Garden the 17, 18 and 20 September 1944. After the war, it served for the Berlin aerial bridge and for the transport of celebrities as the Général De Gaulle or François Mitterand, former French prime minister. It was reformed a first time in the 70s before to become the personal aircraft of the Central African Emperor Bokassa Ist and finally, it finished as a cargo plane.
Operators:
1943-1945: US Air Force as the n°42-23310
194?-194?: Scottish Airline, transformed in DC-3, registered G-AGZF, n°141.406
194?-late 40s: British government, used for the Berlin's aerial bridge, G-AGZF, n°141.406
late 40s-1952: RAF, served for the transport of troops to the Middle East.
1952-1966: French Air Force
05/1954-08/1954: CIET 340, F-RAVT, 5141406.
08/1954-12/1955: GLAM, F-RAFC, 5141406.
05/1956-04/1957: GLA 45, F-SCZX, 5141406.
04/1957-10/1958: GT 3/62 "Sahara", F-RASL, 5141406.
10/1958-11/1960: GLA 45, F-SCDA, 5141406.
11/60-05/63: GLAM 1/60, F-RAFH, 5141406.
04/1964-late 1966: GTLA 2/60, F-RAJN, 141406.
1966-1972: stocked on the BA-276 of Châteaudun, F-BRGN, 141406.
1972-1974: Overseas Development Minister, F-BRGN.
1974-1979: Center African Republic, personnal aircraft of the Emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa, TL-JBB.
1979-1983: Inter-RCA, TL-AAX.
1983-1989: Transvalair, F-GDDP.
1984: It did a commemorative paratroopers droping over Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day.
1987-1989: Several unknown owners, abandoned in 1989 on the airfield of Caen-Carpiquet, Normandy, F-GDDP.
1990-1998: France DC3, the association which saved it from the demolition and currently make it fly, F-GDDP - F-AZTE.
1991-1998: France DC3, livery of "L'envolée Air Inter", F-GDDP.
1998-2000: Publi-Air, F-GDDP.
2000-2002: abandoned on the airport of Limoges.
2002: classed at the CNRAC (collection aeroplane) and new fundation of the association France DC3, F-AZTE.
2002-now: France DC3, livery of the F-BBBE, Air France, F-AZTE.
It's currently the last flying DC-3 in France but a C-47 is in course of restoration on the Airfield of Cerny-La Ferté Alais.
Operators:
1943-1945: US Air Force as the n°42-23310
194?-194?: Scottish Airline, transformed in DC-3, registered G-AGZF, n°141.406
194?-late 40s: British government, used for the Berlin's aerial bridge, G-AGZF, n°141.406
late 40s-1952: RAF, served for the transport of troops to the Middle East.
1952-1966: French Air Force
05/1954-08/1954: CIET 340, F-RAVT, 5141406.
08/1954-12/1955: GLAM, F-RAFC, 5141406.
05/1956-04/1957: GLA 45, F-SCZX, 5141406.
04/1957-10/1958: GT 3/62 "Sahara", F-RASL, 5141406.
10/1958-11/1960: GLA 45, F-SCDA, 5141406.
11/60-05/63: GLAM 1/60, F-RAFH, 5141406.
04/1964-late 1966: GTLA 2/60, F-RAJN, 141406.
1966-1972: stocked on the BA-276 of Châteaudun, F-BRGN, 141406.
1972-1974: Overseas Development Minister, F-BRGN.
1974-1979: Center African Republic, personnal aircraft of the Emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa, TL-JBB.
1979-1983: Inter-RCA, TL-AAX.
1983-1989: Transvalair, F-GDDP.
1984: It did a commemorative paratroopers droping over Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day.
1987-1989: Several unknown owners, abandoned in 1989 on the airfield of Caen-Carpiquet, Normandy, F-GDDP.
1990-1998: France DC3, the association which saved it from the demolition and currently make it fly, F-GDDP - F-AZTE.
1991-1998: France DC3, livery of "L'envolée Air Inter", F-GDDP.
1998-2000: Publi-Air, F-GDDP.
2000-2002: abandoned on the airport of Limoges.
2002: classed at the CNRAC (collection aeroplane) and new fundation of the association France DC3, F-AZTE.
2002-now: France DC3, livery of the F-BBBE, Air France, F-AZTE.
It's currently the last flying DC-3 in France but a C-47 is in course of restoration on the Airfield of Cerny-La Ferté Alais.
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Is it a DC-3 or a C-47? Outwardly they look the same but there were changes to the DC-3 airframe to make it a C-47. Some of the changes were okay to good others were bad.
All DC-3s have round or round corner windows, the C-47 has square corner windows and this is where cracks in the aircraft skin start because the sharp corner is a stress riser.
Dad in the late part of WW2 was flying in a C-47 when a crack started a window corner, by the time they got the plane on the ground the crack was about two feet long. A few days later Dad saw the same plane and it was a hulk because it had been stripped. The plane had cracks all over it under the paint.
I should note Dad had flight time in both of them as pilot on command mostly flying them in Alaska.
All DC-3s have round or round corner windows, the C-47 has square corner windows and this is where cracks in the aircraft skin start because the sharp corner is a stress riser.
Dad in the late part of WW2 was flying in a C-47 when a crack started a window corner, by the time they got the plane on the ground the crack was about two feet long. A few days later Dad saw the same plane and it was a hulk because it had been stripped. The plane had cracks all over it under the paint.
I should note Dad had flight time in both of them as pilot on command mostly flying them in Alaska.
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