VP-YKN  Douglas DC-3                              (c/n 15993/32741)

                              

                                    Ah......the way things were!  Nostalgic shot of a CAA DC-3 basking in the sun in front of the
                                    Blantyre, Nyasaland terminal in 1954.  This aircraft was the former G-AMPS, and a Dakota IV
                                    (KN471) with the RAF before that.  CAA was dissolved following Ian Smith's Rhodesian Uni-
                                    lateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, and this late model ex C-47B-25-DK (1945 built)
                                    went to the Rhodesian Air Force as R7313.   When Zimbabwe came into being, it passed to the
                                    Zimbabwean Air Force.