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C/N 13541
ZS-CAI
No titles but owned by Dewaldt at the time this photograph was taken.
Wonderboom Airport 10 October 2006
Photograph: Tamas Polonyi
Dewaldt Brussow was the registered owner but his Father Manfred did the organising of the work for ZS-CAI.
The aircraft was used to operate into Zambia, supplying the copper mines around Ndola and Kitwe.
The name of the previous owner of Business Aviation is Yunus Munshi, for some months at that time the aircraft was operating the Air Botswana cargo contract into Gaborone and various other flights into Swaziland.
It was intended to go to the DRC, but this did not materialise. I recovered the aircraft after a long period of inactivity at Wonderboom and put it back into service some months later for Manfred (all that work was done at Swartkop, and the aircraft even operated some flights to Zambia from Swartkop). After SA Historic Flight was closed by Transnet, Manfred no longer had an AMO and he had to cease operation.
For a short period when owned by Dewaldt the aircraft carried the name Koos Wildebeest on the nose.
The aircraft had an engine failureduring taxi at Wonderboom which sealed the fate of the aircraft until I took Marilyn Andre to see Manfred and we did the deal to purchase the aircraft for Skyclass.
I used to have a photograph of ZS-CAI taken by Robin Norton in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1970, but I'll have to look for it.
Text: Brendan Odell
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DC-3 Individual Aircraft History 
