With the aqcquisition of Real in 1961 and the closure of Panair do Brasil in 1965, Varig became the main operator of the DC-3s in Brazil and latin america, being the backbone of the national operations linking the country in many less prepared fields and long sequential flights, with a excellent safety historic for it´s era.

The PP-VBF carried a historical and tragic history; built in August 1943 to the USAAF (42-24294)  then Air Carrier Service (NC68358), where arguiably was flown by Howard Highes himself. She arrived in Brazil in 1947 to fly with Varig and got the tailnumber PP-VBF. In 1959 it was damaged and repaired, and then turned to fly mostly in the famous "air bridge" between brazil´s major cities Sao Paulo and Rio, until it was retired from active flight with the rest of the DC-3s in 1971.

After the retirement it was partially restored and put in public display in Flamengo square in Rio for many years, until it was moved to Varig Maintenance in the Rio International airport. After Varig became insolvent, the debt managers decided that there was no commercial value in the VBF, so it was destroyed by buldozers in january 2020 for it´s aluminum to be sold as scrap, followed by commotion of the history that was since then finished.

Hope the VBF will be back to the skies in this version as it should be in real life.