And here's the (fuselage of the) wrecked Dakota at Prestwick in 1969. All the Important Bits have been taken off. Presumably it didn't take a lot of damage to make a Dakota beyond economical repair by 1969. Incidentally, it was a "proper" Dakota, ie a onetime-RAF WW2 one, built 1944, probably just happened to be in Africa in 1945-6 when demobbed and EAA were looking for aircraft.