AP-ABD Douglas DC-3
(c/n 6258)
Orient Airways was formed before the partition of India in
1946. It originally operated charter
flights from Calcutta
to Rangoon. Being Muslin owned it migrated to the newly
formed Pakistan
and, for a while,
provided the much needed bridge between West and East Pakistan (now
Bangla-
desh). In
March of 1955 Pakistan International Airlines took over the routes and
assets of Orient,
and AP-ABD was absorbed by
the new Pakistani national carrier.