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A Fourth Life for a Ryan STM-2

Vintage Aviation News

S-58 was packed along with 35 or 36 other STMs aboard the cargo ship MS Tijnegara on Feb. “There was no firewall forward, there were no motor mounts or oil tank, no fuel tanks,” Devries said. To preserve some of their assets, the Dutch ordered the STM-2s to be prepared for shipment to safety in Australia.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

The contents of this article have been limited to commercial aircraft performing public transport flights, whether carrying cargo or passengers (or both). As the month ended, on March 31, 2024, a Safe Air Boeing 727 operating a cargo flight from Juba to Malakal in Kenya crashed following a heavy landing at Malakal Airport in South Sudan.

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