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Dornier Do.27A-1 (288)

 

 
Date: 70's

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this vintage 1959 build Piper was registered on January 16 1973 to Skyworks which was a company establised on January 1 1970 based at Antwerp airport for bannertowing.

Date: 29/04/1978

Location: Nijlen (Belgium)

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: on April 29 1978 while doing its job towing banners it had to make an emergency landing in a field at Nijlen (Belgium) after encountering some engine troubles, luckely without harm of the pilot on board, here depicted just after the accident.

Date: 29/04/1978

Location: Nijlen (Belgium)

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: the damage was too much for repairs and it became a write-off.

Date: late 70's

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: afterwards the wreckage was used for spares at Antwerp airport, here seen such. It was cancelled from the register on August 30 1978 and left the airport for a scrap dealer on December 28 of the same year.

 

Belgian register