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.