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C/N 12161 ZS-DFN Information below supplied by Brendan Odell 5 November 2013 C/N 12161 USAAF 42-92368 RAF lend lease FZ606 Delivered to the SAAF on 27/02/1944 as SAAF 6826 Sold as spares to Africair/Wenela, rebuilt Rand Airport as ZS-DFN To Avikat, Katanga Congo, 1961 as KA-DFN Destroyed by two Indian Air Force Canberra B(I) Mk.58 bombers from No.5 Squadron, on a United Nations mission, when they attacked Kolwezi airfield on 6 December 1961. Image of destroyed KA-DFN here http://www.airwar.ru/history/af/congo/congo.html