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C/N 34225
Originally allocated C/N 16965
C-47B-45-DK
45-0962
NZ3553
ZK-ERI
D6-CAE
6871 SAAF
Converted to C-47TP
ZS-LJI Professional Aviation Services
Impounded at Beira Airport on 23 July 1998.
Stored (hangared) at Beira, Aero Club of Mozambique.
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Photograph: Will Blunt
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Lanseria 23 March 1997
In the background is HS 748 9L-LBF and Douglas C-54D Skymaster C9-ATS c/n 22192 of Interocean
Photograph: Martin Pole
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Photograph: Phillip Evans
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
March 2010
Photograph: Kevin Tidy and Robert Jones ORAFs (Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods)
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
March 2010
Photograph: Kevin Tidy and Robert Jones ORAFs (Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods)
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
March 2010
Photograph: Kevin Tidy and Robert Jones ORAFs (Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods)
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
March 2010
Photograph: Kevin Tidy and Robert Jones ORAFs (Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods)
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
A plate on the aircraft states ZS-LJI Wonder Air PTY LTD Box 710 Pretoria
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
March 2010
Photograph: Kevin Tidy and Robert Jones ORAFs (Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods)
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C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
January 2012
Photograph: Claude Oberholzer |
C/N 34225
ZS-LJI
Stored in Beira, Mozambique
January 2012
Photograph: Claude Oberholzer |
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The Beira Dakota Mystery
By
Bob Manser
Believe it or not this Turbo prop Dakota has been hangared in Beira for the past fifteen years and never moved.
As in the one picture you can see her tail feathers are getting a bit rotten as the Dak is too big for the hangar so the tail and elevators have been exposed to the Beira tropical weather for all this time.
Ant White who has been a resident in post war Mozambique for many years confirms that the Dak was impounded approx. 15 years ago by customs for smuggling in cigarettes which were in great demand in those days.
It seems such a shame that such a grand old bird is doomed to spend many more years in this hangar unless some orafs member is mates with Richard Branson or Bill Gates and can get one of them to buy it with their petty cash, as this Dak should be either in an aviation museum, or possibly even refurbished as I am sure she has many more flying hours left in her.
Pictures by Kevin Tidy and Rob Jones.
Bob Manser
Chimoio
The above Coutessy Eddy Norris
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DC-3 Individual Aircraft History