ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337519
| Date: | Tuesday 4 December 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Registration: | A65-53 |
| MSN: | 13441 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 15 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Port Moresby-Seven Mile Aerodrome (POM) -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The C-47 developed brake trouble, collided with RAAF Consolidated B-24M-10-CO Liberator A72-182 and ran into a ditch. Dual civil registration VH-CTO.
Sources:
Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History web site
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 April 1945 | 42-93520 | United States Army Air Force - USAAF | unknown |  |
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