SA-307B, NC19906, sn 1998

Impress as 42-88623 in 1942.

details from Joe Baugher's web site...

42-88623 (MSN 1998) ex NC1940 (rergistered from NC19906) of TWA. Flew for a while with incorrect tail number of 288625. Returned to TWA in July 1944 and rebuilt as SA-307B-1 N1940. Sold to French Aigle Azur Transports Aeriens in May 1951 as F-BELU. To Air Laos in 1952 To Airnautic (GECA) Nov 1959, to CITCA 1965. Sold to Cambodia Air Commercial in 1974 as XW-TFP. Some reports that it was written off in a forced landing in Mekong River in 1975, but reports persist that this plane may still be flying. A book by Alexander Frater reports a sighting in Indonesia in 1985 of a plane which may have been this aircraft.

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