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OY-BPB_1989-04-26_MUC_1290_RS

 

Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

 

 

München-Riem

1989-04-26 (26 April 1989)

 

OY-BPB / K-682

Douglas C-47A Skytrain (DC-3)

20019

Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S

 

In the late 1980s, Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S used this ex-Royal Danish Air Force aircraft as a company plane, but also for pleasure flights at airshows. From the early 1990s, the C-47A was operated and maintainted by The Association for Flying Museums Planes/Danish Dakota Friends (DC-3 Vennerne).

 

In December 2019, the permanent grounding of the aircraft for technical and financial reasons was announced, but it then received a new engine and was kept in flying condition after all. So this is now (2021) the last airworthy DC-3/C-47 in Denmark.

 

Video of engine test run in October 2020: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er0NGlMHvcw

 

DC-3 Vennerne - Danish Dakota Friends website: www.dc3vennerne.dk/

 

Information on this airframe from joebaugher.com:

15553 (MSN 20019) delivered to USAAF 9Apr44; 1st Troop Carrier Group, Baer, IN 14Apr44; 805th Base Unit, George, IL 29Aug44; to Dorval, Montreal 26Apr45; delivered to the Royal Norwegian AF 24May45 as 43-15553; leased by RNoAF to Det Norske Luftfartselskab, DNL Jun46; registered LN-IAT;

named "Nordtind"; renamed "Terje Viking" 1Oct48; sold to DNL 15Dec48; Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) 8Feb51; registration cancelled 16Sep53; Royal Danish AF (RDAF) 1Oct53 as 68-682; ESK 721 (Squadron 721) 1Jan54; reregistered K-682 15Dec60; Radio call sign OV-JBM;

last flight for RDAF 30Jul82; stored at RDAF Base Værløse; leased by Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S 3Mar83; returned to storage 31Oct83; Bohnstedt-Petersen A/S 21Feb85; registered as OY-BPB Feb 1985; The Association for Flying Museums Planes/Danish Dakota Friends 25Jun92; repainted in original 1946 SAS colors and named "Arv Viking" 19Apr96; repainted in the 1966 Royal Danish AF scheme Spring 1998.

 

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/LN-IAT/903981

 

This airframe as LN-IAT with Norwegian Airlines at FBU ca. late 1940s:

c7.alamy.com/comp/2BDD25J/fornebu-international-airport-f...

 

LN-IAT with SAS at AMS in March 1952:

www.flickr.com/photos/iisg/8418717855

 

This airframe as 68-682 with Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) at CPH in 1959 (in camouflage):

www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l15265.jpg

 

This airframe as K-682 with RDAF in July 1982:

www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l23924.jpg

 

OY-BPB with Foreningen For Flyvende Museumsfly titles at AAL in June 1993 (orange panels partly overpainted, no RDAF roundel):

www.flickr.com/photos/jaydeekay/51115661965

 

OY-BPB with DC-3 Vennerne at Stauning (STA/EKVJ) in June 1996 (painted in 1946 SAS colours):

www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l21498.jpg

 

OY-BPB with Foreningen For Flyvende Museumsfly titles (starboard side) at Duxford in June 2019:

www.flickr.com/photos/96219572@N07/48199192682

 

OY-BPB with DC-3 Vennerne titles (port side) at Duxford in June 2019:

www.flickr.com/photos/nickj1972/48694934987

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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