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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2/R2D / DC-3 Dakota / C-47/R4D Skytrain / C-53 Skytrooper
    Latest Model:C-47-DL
    Last Military Serial:4341 FAE
    Construction Number:04341
    Last Civil Registration:HC-AUZ
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-47-DL sn 4341 FAE cn 0434...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerotaxis Ecuatorianos SA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-47-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, California, USA.

    28 April 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-7842.

    3 April 1944

    Crashed.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    1946

    To Continental Sky-Van Inc, San Francisco, CA with new c/r N56968 (DC3C-S1C3G, 4341).


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    3 January 1948

    Civil registration, N56968, cancelled.

    To Aero Geral with new c/r PP-IBB.

    To Nacional with new c/r PP-ANP.

    To REAL keeping c/r PP-ANP.

    To Varig keeping c/r PP-ANP.

    March 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana with s/n 4341.

    May 1968


    Photographer: Rene Francillon

    1969

    To TAME with new c/r HC-AUZ.

    6 September 1969

    Involved in an incident.
    Summary: The passenger flight departed Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO/SEQU), Ecuador. The hijacking occurred at Santiago-Antonio Maceo Airport (SCU) (Cuba) while en route. Narrative: Twelve men and a woman, some of them armed with machine guns, hijacked two TAME Ecuador C-47 planes. The hijackers shot and killed one crewman and wounded another. Both aircraft landed at Tumaco (TCO), Colombia for refueling. One airplane was left behind as the hijackers continued to Panama City-Tocumen Airport (PTY)...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    By 1974

    To Aerotaxis Ecuatorianos SA keeping c/r HC-AUZ.

    2 May 1974

    Destroyed in a crash.

    October 1977

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
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    Aviation Safety Network
    Ed Coates Civil Aircraft Photograph Collection by Ed Coates
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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