PP-YPP
Douglas DC-3
(c/n 19176)
By 1957 REAL had formed an operating
consortium with Aerovias Brasil. And so, appended
to the now familiar "Voe
Pela (Fly with) REAL:" was a hyphenated "Aerovias Brasil".
PP-YPP
was
built as a C-47A-70-DL Skytrain in 1942 for the USAAF as
42-100713. It was civilian-
ized in 1947
as NC54325 and then went to REAL. It had a couple of other
Brazilian owners
(as
PT-BEJ and PP-ASR) before being traded in by Sadia to Handley Page for
part payment
on a new
Dart Herald. H.P. managed to unload it to Bolivian Air Tourmen
(registered CP-820)
and Bob Garrard
caught it passing through Miami in July of 1968 as seen in the shot
below.
It
remained in Bolivia after that with at least one more owner but its
eventual fate is not known.