Date:	Monday 3 November 1952
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	43-15665
MSN:	20131
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Fletcher's Ice Island (Ice Station T3) -   Arctic Ocean
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The C-47A 43-15665 was the first aircraft to land on North Pole ice on May 3, 1952. It later crashed at Ice Station T3, a manned scientific research station on an iceberg that drifted throughout the central Arctic Ocean.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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