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Registration: PT-KUB

Construction Number: 17021/34285

Model Douglas C-47B Skytrain

Operator: Museo de Tecnologia de Sao Paulo

Airport: Sao Paulo - Parque Dom Pedro, Brazil

Photographer: Junior JUMBO - Grupo Ases do Ceu

Date Taken: 29/08/2012

Date Submitted: 19/03/2015

Douglas C-47B-45 DK (c/n 17021/34285). Hand USAAF (registration 45-1018). Acquired by VASP in January 1946, received the PP-SPO registration and the name "Caparaó" flying by this company until 1972 and then donated to Project Rondon on 07.02.1974 along with six other DC-3. In 1975 received the PT-KUB registration. In 1980 the aircraft was donated to the Museum of Technology, being reformed by the FAB with spare parts of three other DC-3 that were in the Aeronautical Material Park Field of Afonsos - Rio de Janeiro. From there, he went on his last flight to Mars Field - São Paulo, where it was disassembled and transported in a truck to the museum. Currently exposed in Parque Dom Pedro in the city of São Paulo.

Picture ID:1487491

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