N47HL Bluebonnet Belle

History

C-GCKE Originally built as a Douglas C-47B-20-DK for the USAAF as 43-49942. To the RAF as KN270, later to the RCAF, retaining RAF serial. Bought by Ontario Central Airlines and re-registered C-GCKE, in service until December 1984. In service until December 1985 then leased back to Ontario Central Airlines until March 1986. Leased to Perimeter Airlines Inland until May 1986. Leased to Ata Construction Lted, Norman Wells, Northwest Territories until 1989, then to Calm Air. Later sold to Randy Daoust, St. Albert, Alberta but registration cancelled in 1995. December 2008 - July 2018, registered as N47HL Bluebonnet Belle and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, Midland, Texas, United States.[1] Crashed on takeoff July 2018 ...

Links

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References

1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Ray Fread's Photos of Propellor Planes". Ruud Leeuw. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

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