Image: DC-3 wreck at the Swedish Air Force Museum (starboard propeller and front)

Description: Wreckage of "the DC-3," a Tp 79 aircraft (the Swedish Air Force's designation for the C-47 Skytrain, a military transport variant of the Douglas DC-3) with serial number 79001, at the Swedish Air Force Museum in Linköping, Sweden. Shown here are the remains of the starboard propeller and the front of the aircraft. The unarmed aircraft was carrying a crew of three men from the Air Force and five from the National Defence Radio Establishment on a classified but lawful and routine radio and radar reconnaissance mission over Swedish and international waters when it was shot down on 1952-06-13 at 11:28 CET by a Soviet MiG-15bis fighter jet, piloted by Captain Grigory Osinsky from Tukums air base in Soviet-occupied Latvia under orders from Colonel Fyodor Shinkarenko. A Catalina (Tp 47) search and rescue aircraft sent to look for the DC-3 was also shot down over international waters by Soviet aircraft three days later. No survivors from the DC-3 were found. The Soviet Union officially denied involvement until its dissolution in 1991. The events are known as the Catalina affair. The DC-3 wreckage was found on 2003-06-10 at a depth of 125 meters. The fuselage was salvaged on 2004-03-19 and taken to Muskö naval base for examination and preservation. The remains of four crewmen were identified. The wreckage was moved to the Swedish Air Force Museum on 2009-05-13.
Title: DC-3 wreck at the Swedish Air Force Museum (starboard propeller and front)
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Author: Alex Nordstrom
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