page_title: Dakota VT-CLA
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Dakota VT-CLA / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: A memorial to the crash of the Dakota VT-CLA in Ngoto, Bantul
context_page_description: Dakota VT-CLA was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying medical supplies to the de facto republican government of Indonesia at Yogyakarta on 29 July 1947.
  During the Indonesian National Revolution, several Indonesian nationalists, including Deputy Commodores Agustinus Adisucipto and Abdul Rahman Saleh, were tasked to deliver medical supplies from Malaya. Near the completion of the mission, as their aircraft – chartered from an Indian businessman and flown by an Australian pilot – approached the airfield at Maguwo, Yogyakarta, two Dutch Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks flew in and shot the aircraft down over Ngoto, Bantul. Only one person surviv
  Although the Dutch initially denied complicity, investigation showed that the Kittyhawks had caused the crash; the Dutch later made restitution to India. On 1 March 1948 a monument to remember the event was built in Ngoto. Since 1979, the Indonesian Air Force has celebrated a Service Day in commemoration of the crash and in remembrance of the deaths.
context_section_description: On 1 March 1948, a monument to commemorate the crash was built in Ngoto. Both Adisucipto and Saleh were declared National Heroes of Indonesia in 1974. In 2000, Adisucipto and Saleh were moved from their initial burial spots to the monument, where they are buried together with their wives.
  Since 1979, the Indonesian Air Force has celebrated a Service Day (Hari Bakti) in commemoration of the crash and in remembrance of the deaths, based on Decision of the Indonesian Air Force Commander Number 133/VII/1976.
caption: Memorial to the crash, in Ngoto
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