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Date: | Monday 5 February 1951 |
Time: | 16:30 |
Type: | Cessna UC-78 Bobcat |
Owner/operator: | R.E. Kappel |
Registration: | PZ-NAB |
MSN: | 1236 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Eagle Beach -
Aruba
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Port au Prince,Haiti |
Destination airport: | Hato,Curacao |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:This Cessna, PZ-NAB was to be the first registered airplane in Suriname, but crashed during it's delivery ferry-flight to Zanderij airfield, Suriname on a beach at Aruba, after problems with fuel consumption in the left engine. Both occupants, the pilot R. Kappel and the passenger Muarice de Jong survived. The airplane was a gift from the young pilot's mother Nora Kappel-de Boer for earning his wings.
Sources:
Flying on trusted wings (Book ISBN: 978-9460222054)
http://landewers.net/PZ.TXT Amigoe di Curacao : weekblad voor de Curacaosche eilanden
06-02-1951
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03-Feb-2020 16:44 |
Cobar |
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23-May-2022 04:06 |
Ron Averes |
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05-Jul-2023 04:07 |
Ron Averes |
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