to Helicopter Transport at Lae, PNG, who had registered it in July that year. The registration
was cancelled in August 1972, officially as sold in France. However it turned up in Rhodesia
in defiance of UN sanctions and became serial 5713 with its air force. The helicopter survived
the civil war to become part of the new Zimbabwe Air Force, which still operated Alouette IIIs
n 2016. It is not known if c/n 1738 was one of them.
