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English: "G-AOBN Douglas DC-3A British United Airways (Radio Calibration Unit) LPL 06JUN66 Originally built as a Douglas C-53D Skytrooper, this aircraft was delivered to the USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) serialled 42-68784 in 1943. It was converted to civil DC-3A standard and sold to ABA Aerotransport (Sweden, and one of the forerunners of SAS) as SE-BAU in Oct-45. It was transferred to SAS Scandinavian Airline System in Feb-51. It also carried the French Overseas registration F-OAIF but I have no details. The aircraft was sold to BUA British United Airways (Radio Calibration Unit) as G-AOBN in Jun-66. It was sold to Ethiopian Airlines as ET-AGR in 1975 and transferred to RRC Air Services for Humanitarian Air work. It was written off in Aug-77 when it was destroyed in a air raid at Jigiga, Ethiopia."
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