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| Date: | Monday 3 November 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-15665 |
| MSN: | 20131 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fletcher's Ice Island (Ice Station T3) -
 Arctic Ocean
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The C-47A 43-15665 was the first aircraft to land on North Pole ice on May 3, 1952. It later crashed at Ice Station T3, a manned scientific research station on an iceberg that drifted throughout the central Arctic Ocean.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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