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| Date: | Monday 6 November 1967 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Biafran Air Force |
| Registration: | 5N-AAK |
| MSN: | 25366/13921 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Location: | Enugu Airport (ENU) -
 Nigeria
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Destroyed during an attack on Enugu Airport raid by a Nigerian Air Force Let L-29 or Jet Provost aircraft.
The aircraft used to be operated by Nigeria but was impounded during the Nigerian Civil War by secessionist state Biafra on April 5, 1967.
Sources:
Shadows,Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria / Michael I Draper
Images:
photo (c) N. Tye; December 1966
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