TN-ADS_1981-08_MUC_1290_RW2
Photo taken by Reimar Wendt and uploaded with his kind permission.
München-Riem
August 1981
TN-ADS
Douglas C-47A-15DK
12704
Atlas Aircraft Corporation, ex-Yugoslav Air Force
Work in progress on "TN-ADS", the former N8071X and Yugoslav Air Force 71241.
This plane has a long and interesting history.
C-47A N8071X, the later TN-ADS, (c/n 12704) was one of three ex-Yugoslav Air Force Dakotas that arrived at Riem around December 1979 and stayed there till spring/summer 1981.
The other two were C-47B N8071Y (cn 14101/25546) and C-53D N8071Z (cn 11746).
N8071X and N8071Y were repainted with a white top and grey belly, while N8071Z only received the white top and kept the Yugoslav Air Force camouflage below (photo as such with SAAF as 6875 (2) exists).
N8071X and N8071Y left Riem in September 1981 with fake registrations TN-ADS and TN-ADT, respectively. N8071Z already left in April 1981 with registration 9Q-CYI, apparently also fake. All three went to the SAAF, busting the sanctions in force at the time.
C-47A MSN 12704 was manufactured in 1944 and served with USAAF (42-92857), Soviet AF, Polish AF (4), LOT (SP-LCB), in Denmark as OY-AIC, with French AF (92857 and F-BRGM), Yugoslav AF (71241), Obrazovni Centar Zracnog Saobracaja (OCZS) at Zagreb, Yugoslavia (YU-ABU). Sold to Atlas Aircraft Corporation on 5 November 1979 and registered N8071X. Stored at Munich, Germany, for months. Received "temporary" registration TN-ADS in September 1981 for delivery to SAAF (6887 (2)). Converted to C-47TP (turbine engines). Still active in December 2017.
Information compiled from various web sources:
www.dc-3.co.za/dc-3-individual-aircraft-history/cn-12704....
www.oy-reg.dk/register/370.html
www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_5.html
This airframe as SP-LCB with LOT in 1953 at CPH:
www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l24180.jpg
This airframe as N8071X at Graz-Thalerhof (GRZ):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/9/9/0991991.jpg
(Judging by the colours, this must have been before its stay at Riem.)
This airframe with fake Royal Bavarian Air Force markings at Riem in March 1980:
www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49253437168
This airframe painted as TN-ADS at Riem in July 1981:
www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49253950101
This airframe as SAAF 6887 doing a roll at the Langebaanweg air show in December 2017:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/6/6/4749665.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.
TN-ADS_1981-08_MUC_1290_RW2
Photo taken by Reimar Wendt and uploaded with his kind permission.
München-Riem
August 1981
TN-ADS
Douglas C-47A-15DK
12704
Atlas Aircraft Corporation, ex-Yugoslav Air Force
Work in progress on "TN-ADS", the former N8071X and Yugoslav Air Force 71241.
This plane has a long and interesting history.
C-47A N8071X, the later TN-ADS, (c/n 12704) was one of three ex-Yugoslav Air Force Dakotas that arrived at Riem around December 1979 and stayed there till spring/summer 1981.
The other two were C-47B N8071Y (cn 14101/25546) and C-53D N8071Z (cn 11746).
N8071X and N8071Y were repainted with a white top and grey belly, while N8071Z only received the white top and kept the Yugoslav Air Force camouflage below (photo as such with SAAF as 6875 (2) exists).
N8071X and N8071Y left Riem in September 1981 with fake registrations TN-ADS and TN-ADT, respectively. N8071Z already left in April 1981 with registration 9Q-CYI, apparently also fake. All three went to the SAAF, busting the sanctions in force at the time.
C-47A MSN 12704 was manufactured in 1944 and served with USAAF (42-92857), Soviet AF, Polish AF (4), LOT (SP-LCB), in Denmark as OY-AIC, with French AF (92857 and F-BRGM), Yugoslav AF (71241), Obrazovni Centar Zracnog Saobracaja (OCZS) at Zagreb, Yugoslavia (YU-ABU). Sold to Atlas Aircraft Corporation on 5 November 1979 and registered N8071X. Stored at Munich, Germany, for months. Received "temporary" registration TN-ADS in September 1981 for delivery to SAAF (6887 (2)). Converted to C-47TP (turbine engines). Still active in December 2017.
Information compiled from various web sources:
www.dc-3.co.za/dc-3-individual-aircraft-history/cn-12704....
www.oy-reg.dk/register/370.html
www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_5.html
This airframe as SP-LCB with LOT in 1953 at CPH:
www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l24180.jpg
This airframe as N8071X at Graz-Thalerhof (GRZ):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/9/9/0991991.jpg
(Judging by the colours, this must have been before its stay at Riem.)
This airframe with fake Royal Bavarian Air Force markings at Riem in March 1980:
www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49253437168
This airframe painted as TN-ADS at Riem in July 1981:
www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49253950101
This airframe as SAAF 6887 doing a roll at the Langebaanweg air show in December 2017:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/6/6/4749665.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.