CR-ABK  Douglas DC-3CS1C3G                     (c/n  11763)

                           

                               Another of the excellent DETA shots taken by "Connie" Heggblom in Mozambique in the 1950s
                               (via John Heggblom).  CR-ABK was a former C-53-DO (42-68836) originally civilianized as
                               N48324 before going to DETA.  I later passed to the Portuguese Air Force as 6173 and may be
                               one of those C-53s that wound up with the embryo Mozambique Air Force before being scrap-
                               ped - probably at  Maputo (Lourenco Marques).