Originally Posted by
Cavair
anyone remember a Rhodesian DC6, VP-YYR. not sure of date or year but i can disticntly remember it coming in over the "quad" (playground) during a PE lesson!
If the reg is correct it was a DC-4, No. 10640, built for the US Air Force in 1945. Autair had it as G-ASZT early in 1965, then it was sold to Rhodesian Air Services in August that year as VP-YYR, who used it for only four months, which probably enables you to date your sighting of it. Rhodesia declared UDI in November 1965 and was cut off by the world community, the aircraft was sold on in January 1966 to a Zaire company, and two months after that it was back with Autair under it's previous British registration - probably someone was not paying their bill, or some fiddles associated with the UDI, somewhere along the line.