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Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation: VP-WAW (transferred to Afro-Continental Airways)-this aircraft became a clubhouse at Charles Prince Airport (formerly Mount Hamden) when it was withdrawn from use. Believed to have been broken up in the
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C and DC-7CF aircraft (with the assistance of the Rhodesian Government) which were registered in Gabon, when the airline became a major part of the Rhodesian sanctions-busting operations. They flew beef to
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It was a charter airline flying cargo and/or passengers to many different destinations throughout Europe and Africa. The company (in chronological order):
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DC-8-55F: TR-LVK and TR-LQR (later to be changed to PAA40 under CargOman, another company of Affretair's)
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Air Trans Africa photos and info to be found in this website. Www.a2oxford.info
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aircraft. The airline's financial crises were compounded when the government of
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Fin and upper fuselage was medium blue fin, later green replaced the blue.
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Douglas DC-7C/F (registered in Gabon): TR-LNY, TR-LNZ, TR-LOJ, TR-LPQ
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quell the insurgency of a group of Congolese rebels called the Simba.
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after UDI for a weekly service from Salisbury to Windhoek.
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after independence, when it replaced Air Trans Africa.
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Index

IATA
ICAO
Call sign
Hubs
Focus cities
Salisbury
Libreville
Rhodesia
Jack Malloch
Rhodesian Air Services
Super Constellation
Douglas C-54
DH114 Heron
Southern Rhodesia
Ian Smith
unilaterally declared independence
mercenaries
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Biafran Civil War
Nigeria
VP-WAW
Afro Continental Airways
Douglas DC-7
Gabon
Affretair
Affretair
Zimbabwe
Douglas DC-4
C-47

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