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Old 25th Apr 2006, 11:30
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Continental-520
 
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Aha!

I used to fly a 207-900T in Western Zambia
I always wondered why the C209s I checked and trained on in Riga had Danish rego's. I'm intrigued to see that the variants in Western Zambia do too.

In fact, looking up my logbook, OY-SUC used to be a regular C209, then it was converted to an amphibious C206 after a landing accident caused by uncontrollability due to a too far forward C of G, sent to Kunnunurra, WA, where it was used for training in the Wheeland Flight Academy. It came to grief a second time there after a long tenure and was then reconverted to a C209-900T as is pictured above.

The rear engine was a bit unreliable (cooling issues)
Resilient busses nevertheless!

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