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[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h40m05s452.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | [[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h40m05s452.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | ||
At Aéroport de Léopoldville (Aéroport de Ndolo (NLO/FZAB) nowaday).<br> | At Aéroport de Léopoldville (Aéroport de Ndolo (NLO/FZAB) nowaday).<br> | ||
| − | OO-CAI wing in the foreground. | + | [[:Category: Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar|Lodestar]] OO-CAI wing in the foreground. |
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h42m22s900.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | [[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h42m22s900.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | ||
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h42m24s077.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | [[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-06-11-09h42m24s077.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.OO-AUK Junkers Ju 52/3mge of [[:Category: SABENA|SABENA-Société Anonyme Belge de Navigation Aérienne]].]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:18, 25 June 2024
Documentary (1942)
Production:
SABENA
Documentary about the Belgian Congo-Union of South Africa route inaugurated in January 1942.
Lockheed L-18-56 Lodestar
At Wingfield Aerodrome, former municipal airport of Cape Town.
Registration OO-CAI, c/n 18-2013. Built in 1940 ordered by Régie Air Afrique, registered F-ARTM but not taken up due to WWII. Delivered to SABENA in August 1941, registered OO-CAI. Sold to EAA-East African Airways in June 1949, registered VP-KHA. Sold to the USA in January 1952, registered N5381N, re-registered N555H in October 1955. Bought by D & D Aero Inc. Rantoul KS in May 1976, transferred to Dodson International Parts Inc. Cancelled in December 2018.
Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar
Taxiing in the background.
Registration ZS-ATA, c/n 18-2046. Built in 1940. Delivered to South African Airways/Suid Afrikans Lugdiens in January 1941, named Jan van Riebeek. Requisitioned by SAAF-South African Air Force in 1941, registered 1374. Returned to South African Airways/Suid Afrikans Lugdiens after WWII as ZS-ATA, renamed Alexander Biggar. Sold to Interstate Airlines in July 1955, registered N670. Sold to Peru as OB-F-558.
Taking off from Wingfield Aerodrome.
Bristol 152 Beaufort
At Wingfield Aerodrome in Cape Town.
Lockheed L-18-56 Lodestar
OO-CAI in flight to Bloemfontein with the Cape Flats and False Bay visible, past the Holland Mountains and over Little Kerroo, crossing the Orange River into the Orange Free State.
Arrival at Johannesburg Rand Airport.
Taking off from Rand Airport.
Lockheed L-18-56 Lodestar
OO-CAI at Aéroport d'Elisabethville in Congo (Aéroport international de Lubumbashi (FBM/FZQA) nowadays). See discussion tab]
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
In the far background.
Junkers Ju 52/3mge
At Aéroport d'Elisabethville. With big title BELGIQUE on the fuselage.
Registration OO-AUK, c/n 6410. Delivered new to SABENA in May 1939. Sent to Belgian Congo. Sold to French Gabon (Libreville) in November 1946.
Taking off.
Lockheed L-18 Lodestar
Continuity error in flight. The cockpit is from OO-CAI again.
Junkers Ju 52/3mge
In flight with OO-AUK again.
Junkers Ju 52/3mge
OO-AUK, unknown location.
Junkers Ju 52/3mge
OO-AUK, at Aéroport de Luluabourg (Aéroport de Kananga (KGA/FZUA) today).
At Aéroport de Léopoldville (Aéroport de Ndolo (NLO/FZAB) nowaday).
Lodestar OO-CAI wing in the foreground.
Unidentified Aircraft
Over the Congo river.
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