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Built as a Douglas C-47B Skytrain c/n 16833/33581 with US military serial ’44-77249′. Transferred to the RAF as ‘KP279’.
In civil use it then flew in Britain, Spain, Sweden, South Africa and Botswana before becoming the 11th Basler Turbo conversion in 1992.
Since then it has operated in Brasil and South Africa carrying out electromagnetic surveys, currently operated by Spectrem Air, a division of Anglo American Corporation.
She is seen parked up at Wonderboom, Pretoria,
South Africa.
19-9-2014
