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[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47A-85-DL Skytrain, 43-15513 (MSDN 19979) Delivered to USAAF on the 5th of April 1944. Ninth Air Force on the 16th of May 1944. 44th Troop Carrier Squadron (6E*M; Nose #53), 316th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Cottesmore (Station 489). Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' on the 6th of June 1944. Transported supplies for the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', on the 7th of June 1944. Transported paratroopers of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Overasselt, SW of Nijmegen, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', on the 17th September 1944. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials for the 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', on the 18th September 1944. TDY to Wethersfield (Station 170) on the 21st of March 1945. Transported British 13th Parachute Battalion paratroopers to a drop zone at the southern edge of the Diersfordt, three miles northwest of Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' on the 24th of March 1945. Returned to US on the 25th of September 1945. To RFC on the 25th of September 1945. NC32975 Spencer Airways on the 20th of January 1947. VP-YFD Spencer Airways (mispainted as VP-YFE) crashed Croydon, UK on the 25th of January 1947. Just after becoming airborne, the plane never gained altitude, overran the runway and crashed into a Ceskoslovenske Dakota.
Twelve of 23 onboard killed on the Spencer Airways none on the Ceskoslovenske. Loss of control by the captain of the Spencer Airways plane, who, when attempting to take-off a heavily loaded aircraft in poor visibility allowed it to become airborne in a semi-stalled condition.

 

[Viking1066]

Westland WG-13 Super Lynx Mk88A '83 + 13' August 2014 JETFIG

Westland Puma HC1 (SA-330E) '1213' RAF Waddington June 2007 JETFIG

Sud Aviation SE.3160 Alouette III '1398' Netherlands AF Sembach Germany June 1980 JETFIG

PZL-Swidnik W-3A Sokal '370713' Czezh Republic AF Kraliky 2023 JETFIG

NHI NH-90TTH '1305-TBEA04' Belgium AF September 2015 AIRPHO

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47B-5-DK, 43-48613 (MSN 14429/25874) to USAAF on the 5th of September 1944. European Wing ATC on the 10th October 1944. SOC on the 16th April 1946. Became SE-BBP "Alkan" (later renamed "Torgny Viking") of AABA on the 29th of April 1946.
Registered on the 18th of April 1947.
To F-BFGJ NTU Feg 1949. Sold as F-OABJ aigle Azur on the 15th of March 1949. Shot down Dlng Khe =, Donkin, Vietnam on the 27th of November 1949.

 

[Viking1066]

NHI NH-90TTH '1305-TBEA04' Belgium AF Texel Netherlands 2018 AIRPHO

Mil MI-171ShM '59489619813' Czech Republic 2022 AIRFIG

McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II '1398' Tucson Davis Monthan AFB March 2015 JETFIG

IAR-330L SOCAT '1350-06' Baza 71 Aeriana "General Emanoil Ionescu" Campia Turzil Escadrila 713 Bucharest Romania AIRFIG

Eurocopter EC-665 Tiger HAD 'ET-713' Spanish Army Cerklje Slovenia June 2023 JETFIG

Boeing Vertol CH-47F Chinook '13-08436' US Army Withheld Germany 2021

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47B-5-DK, 43-48713 (MSN 14529/25974) to USAAF on the 12th September 1944. 8th AF on the 27th September 1944. Returned to US on the 19th of July 1945. Converted to C-47D on the 1st of January 1948.
Crashed in waters of Cook Inlet, Alaska on the 2nd of September 1949 during routine instrument training flight from Elmendorf AFB.
All 7 onboard killed.

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47B-15-DK, 43-49313 (MSN 15129/26574) to USAAF on the 7th of November 1944. To RAF in India as Dakota IV KK120 via RAF Nassau on the 19th of November 1944.
ACSEA 15Dec44. 117 Sqn RAF. 194 Sqn RAF. 215 Sqn RAF. 48 Sqn RAF.
Missing in cloud between Changi and Saigon on the 26th of February 1947.
Wreckage not found.

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-54B-20-DO Skymaster, 44-9013 (MSN 27239) Damaged on the 26th of July 1945, Luliang, China. By 1956 ws N90449 "Starliner Seattle" of Alaska Airlines Inc. W/o on the 2nd March 1957 Blyn, WA. Crashed into a densly wooded mountain, 3 miles east of Blyn, en route to Seattle. Navigation error and poor judgement by the pilot in entering an overcast ainous area at too low an altitude.
3 crew, 2 passengers killed.

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47B-35-DK Skytrain, 44-76913 (MSN 16497/33245) to USAAF on the 9th of May 1945. To RAF in India as Dakota IV KN602 via RAF Montreal on the 11th of May 1945.
ACSEA on the 24th May 1945. 117 Sqdn RAF in June 1945.
Missing on the 27th of June 1945.
Presumably ditched 7 mi SW of Teknaf, Burma.

 

[Lucky13]

Douglas C-47B-35-DK Skytrain, 44-77113 (MSN 16697/33445) to USAAF on the 8th of June 1945. To RAF in UK as Dakota IV KP227 via RAF Montreal on the 11th of June 1945.
RAF UK on the 22nd of June 1945. 437 Sqn RAF on the 5th of September 1945. 435 Sqn RAF. To RCAF as KP227 9n the 11th of April 1946. ANS, Winnipeg, Manitoba Redesignated as CC-129. Renumbered 12906 in June 1970. Canadian Forces Flying Training Standards Unit, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 429 T Sqn RCAF, Winnipeg, Manitoba. WFS. SOC on the 20th of July 1976. Registered on the 12 of October 1976 as C-GYJJ. Registered on the 8th of July 1977 as N99665; cancelled on the 6th of September 1980 on export to Zaire. Swedish owner. Registered as 9Q-CUK. To Transports Aériens Zairois; named 'Cargo Queen'. Flown to Sweden 1991 after a coup in Zaire. Registered as ES-AKE. Based at Vallentuna, Stockholm. Registration 9Q-CUK reserved again in April 2007. Registered as N41CQ to Addison Aviation Inc., Pompano Beach, Florida.
To Adams Aviation Services. Incorporated, Wilmington, Delaware on the 6th of May 2016.
Sold in China 2019

 

[Lucky13]

Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando, 44-77713 (MSN 33109) w/o on the 27th of September 1951 in crash on Mt Tanazawa, Japan 11 killed.

 

[Lucky13]

Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando, 44-78713 (MSN 22536) leased by USAF to Nationwide Air Transport as N1669M in July 1948. Lease transferred to Resort Airlines in 1950 (on merger). Crashed on the 23rd of May 1953 near Des Moines, IA after structural failure during thunderstorm.
Crew of 2 killed.

 

[Lucky13]

Index of /usaf_serials/

 

[Viking1066]

Bristol 171 Sycamore Mk.52 '13446' German Navy Nordholz Cuxhaven August 2023 JETFIG

Vertol CH-47F Chinook '13-08436' US Army Schonefeld Germany 2018Vertol CH-47F Chinook '13-08436' US Army Schonefeld Germany 2018

 

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Bell UH-1H Iroquois (205) '13589' Madrid Soanish AF October 2023 JETFIG

Bell UH-1H Iroquois '13157' Hermansville AP April 2024 AIRFIG

AugustaWestmoreland Merlin HM1 (Mk.111) 'ZH847-13' RN Waddignton June 2006 JETFIG

AgustaWestmoreland AW139 '31300' Qatar Emiri AF Konya June 2023 JETFIG

AgustaWestland Merlin HC4 'ZJ135' RAF Salisbury Plain 2019 AIRFIG

 

[Viking1066]

Aerospatiale SA-365N3+Dauphin 2 '7013' Lithuania AF Nordholz 2023 AIRFIG

Aerospatiale SA-316B Alouette III '1377' Koksijde Belgium Austrian AF October 2016 AIRFIG

Boeing CH-47F Chinook '2513' United Arab Emirates 2023 JETPHO

737232 Mil Mi-17 Hip '1713' Mexico AF Santa Lucia 2023 JETPHO

 

[Viking1066]

1232538 McDonnell Douglas MD-530FF '1135' Mexico Air Force Santa Lucia 2023 JETPHO

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi F-2A '13-8513' Hyakuri Japan 2019 AIRFI

 

[Viking1066]

Spitfire PRXI RAF 541 Sqn at Benson Oxfordshire 1944 'CH13491'

 

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[Viking1066]

2/LLv 30 Fokker D.XXIs 'FR-129' 'FR-124' and 'FR-130' at Turku June 1941 SIHO