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tempest1944
 
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2012-09-27 GMT-5 hours 
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Something I've noticed here....why is it that a lot of Dakota photos are labelled as CC-129s? They were built as C-47s. The RCAF ones were known as such for about two decades, until the "unification" of the Canadian Forces in 1968-1970. Soo my question is...why have the designation "CC-129" available, unless the plane is painted in post-unification markings? Not a whole lot of people would recognize the designation, as DC-3/R4D/C-47/C-53 are much more well known.
I just see C-47 is being more accurate, since CC-129 was a post-1970 designation. Josh |
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Grimmi
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2012-09-28 GMT-5 hours 
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Just for info - he meant this one:
After his comment to the picture I was searching the net but had not found yet an correct answer - but on airliners it's stated as Douglas C-47A Dakota 3 (DC-3). When I was uploading the picture, the Registration was already on database and I just taken that as it. also on airliners you can read about the history: Quote http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Douglas-C-47A-Dakota/2001274/&sid=2d6c7d65dd7056d7ec66d91be6a5e22d Maybe the type occured from his service in canada ? Muuuuhhh - welcome in the land of milk and chocolate |
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tempest1944
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2012-09-30 GMT-5 hours
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The designation CC-129 was therefore used only for a max of 3 years of the plane's service life. In my books, unless it was a Canadian licence-built version (a la Canadair CF-104, CF-86, etc.), it should go by the designation all other countries know it as.
The Canadian Forces Air Command (used to be RCAF, now is RCAF) has had a....slightly amusing habit of re-designating types, ever since 1968. CF-116 (F-5 Freedom Fighter), CF-188 (F-18 Hornet), CC-177 (C-17 Globemaster), CC-129 (C-47), CP-140 (P-3 Orion), etc. Mind you, the CP-140 Aurora is the only canadian designated aircraft to be re-named, too. my air force is silly sometimes... |
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DDGboy
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2020-06-02 GMT-5 hours
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Here's something on this subject I made last year, triggered by yet again having to Google a Canadian designation to confirm what it actually was from memory!
https://www.airfighters.com/datas/users/8495-1.jpg |
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admin
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2020-06-06 GMT-5 hours 
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Looking through the database we have 74 photos of that one particular CC-129 belonging to one registration. What's the exact designation it should be for this exact aircraft: ZA947?
-Ray |
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mark_munzel
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2020-07-03 GMT-5 hours
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As a fellow Canadian, I'm in agreement with tempest1944. I would have ZA947 in the database as a Dakota Mk.III.
Tempest1944, a couple of bits of trivia: - The Aurora isn't the only aircraft to receive a new name in Canadian service. Officially, "CF-5" is the name for the CF-116 and "CF-18" is the name for the CF-188. However, absolutely nobody outside of Ottawa cares what the official designations are, so even in DND paperwork "Freedom Fighter" and "Hornet" have become accepted. And does anyone else call an AW.101 a "Cormorant?" - In addition to a wonky designation system, we have wonky serials. The first three digits are the designation and the last two are sequential numbers. But some serials have five digits and some have six, and in six-digit serials the fourth digit seems almost random: 1 for CP-140s, 6 for CC-144s, 9 for CH-149s, 7 or 9 for CF-188s... Why? So the last four digits of each serial will be unique to each airframe. There's only one 2944 (a CC-129), only one 2803 (a CT-142), only one 8782 (a CF-188), etc. If you want to set your head spinning, look online for a copy of "The Aircraft of the Canadian Armed Forces" by Jeff Rankin-Lowe and Andrew Cline, published in the mid-1990s. In addition to listing every aircraft that had a CAF designation to that time, it explains the methods behind the apparent madness in designation and serial assignments. |
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