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DC-3 History
G-AMPP

1944 Douglas C-47B-DK
C/N 15272/26717

25th November 1944
Delivered to USAF as 43-49456
28th December 1944
Transferred to RAF as KK136
13th December 1945
Transferred to 147 squadron based at Croydon
10th September 1946
Transferred to 1 TAMU
16th November 1946
Stationed in the Middle East
3rd February 1947
Returned to the UK
14th April 1947
Stored
4th May 1952
Registered as G-AMPP with Scottish Aviation Ltd
28th November 1954
Registered with Scottish Airline (Prestwick) Ltd
1954
Transferred back to RAF as XF756
30th March 1961
Registered as G-AMPP with Dan Air Services Ltd
1970's
Preserved Lasham Hampshire UK with starboard wing from G-AMSU and painted as "G-AMSU". (G-AMSU was Dan Air's first DC-3 & was scraped in the early 70's at Lasham).

7th February 1971
Registration canceled
November 1991
Acquired by Aces High Ltd
20th December 1991
Moved to North Weald
1992
Sold and moved to Euro Disney in Paris
30th August 2002
Moved to Wings of Liberation Museum Park Best in the Netherlands by the Royal Dutch Air Force salvage team.
26th February 2005
Acquired by Teamworx Television & Film GmbH and move to Berlin to be used in a film about the Berlin Airlift "Die Luftbrucke".
June 2005
Moved to Army land near Wroclaw Poland for filming. (rudders, elevators, engines, props, one wing & internal systems did not move).
July 2005
Used for a crash scene & set on fire.
September 2005
Remaining parts acquired by Przemyslaw Pawlowicz and moved to his house in Poland.

G-AMPP at Ostend 1965 (c)Alain Demonty	G-AMPP at Liverpool Speke 1967 (c)Steve Williams	G-AMPP at Manchester Ringway 1969 (c)Dave Jones
G-AMPP as "G-AMSU" at Lasham (c)David Unsworth	At Wings of Liberation Museum Best Netherlands (c)www.ruudleeuw.com	(c)www.ruudleeuw.com
(c)www.ruudleeuw.com	(c)www.ruudleeuw.com	(c)Wings of Liberation Museum
Being pepared for filming of "Die Luftbrucke" Brandenburg, Germany March 2005
(c)Jens Lewin	(c)Jens Lewin	(c)Jens Lewin
(c) www.sat.1.de	(c) www.sat.1.de	(c) www.sat.1.de
(c) www.sat.1.de	(c) www.sat.1.de	(c) www.sat.1.de
(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	At her new home in Poland Sept 2005 (c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz
(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz
(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz	(c)Przemyslaw Pawlowicz

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Links to the Teamworks/Sat1 Berlin Airlift Film
Die Luftbrucke
Die Luftbrucke(flashsite)