PP-AVS  Douglas DC-3                     (c/n  19792)

                                    

                                         Another busy maintenenace scene taken in one of Aerovias Brasil's hangars in the late 1940s.
                                         PP-AVS was ex C-47A-80-DL 43-15326 which went directly to Aerovias Brasil upon being
                                         civilianized in 1947.  It returned to the US for refurbishing in the late 1950s (as N9308R) and
                                         then went to Royal Nepal Airlines becoming 9N-AAD.  It was destroyed in a take-off crash
                                         at Bhairawa Airport in Nepal on 5 November 1960.