Looks like Bad Aircraft Karma month for Erik Prince. First we heard about his LASA T-Bird being disassembled in Paphos, Cyprus now we learn that his PMPF/BridgePorth souped up DC-3 is being picked apart and cataloged for some interested folks. PC-6 and Ugandan LASA next?
ZS-MFY is a 1943 era, low serial number (mil: 501) c/n 12073 Douglas DC-3 Dakota converted in South Africa to be a DC-3TP or turbo prop. It survived a previous crash and had a bad landing in Bossaso. Also part of some legal dustup in Kenya. #DramaQueennation.africa/kenya/news/502…
Last year Erik's kill team was working out of a Egyptian military base using this plane but had to haul ass out of Luxor. The DC-3 was seized. GID wanted to know about the $12M in surveillance gear aboard. Magically the Egyptians became the new owners of a slightly used Dakota.
The team hotfooted it to Uganda and then continued down to Mozambique where they were fired by Mohamad Dahlan and told to go home. Moz is where two more Prince-linked sensor equipped Gazelles showed up and were later impounded by South African police. It never stops....
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