NAMC YS - 11 / A213
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Nihon
Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation in Japan produced in
the years 1962 to 1974 the civilian passenger and turbo
prop airplane YS-11. These planes have had 20 crashed
through history, and in 1983 the Japanese company went
bankrupt. Outside Aruba rest the wreck of one of these
planes that served for Air Aruba. In 2004 the plane was
sunk as an artificial reef and dive site right outside the
airport. The wreck rest next to the wreck of an Convair CV-440 plane on a depth of
approx 13 to 22 meter outside Sonesta Reef.
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 Picture:
Air Aruba, YS - 11
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain  |
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