VH-TAP     'Matthew Flinders'                                              c/n  42

                                     Essendon, 1955

                                     Delivered early in 1949 and saw first service on 1 April 1949 from Melbourne to Brisbane.
                                     Sold to Pakistan International Airlines in 1956 as AP-AHO.  Purchased by Fokker in
                                     Holland in 1959 as PH-NHZ.  Was to have been leased to Euravia Air Charter NV as PH-EUR
                                     but that didn't happen.  Instead it was purchased by the St. Louis-based aircraft broker Remmert
                                     Werner as N557R.   After refurbishing to executive transport standard they sold it to Falstaff
                                     Brewing Co in 1961 as N503.    It was acquired by Alaska Coastal Airlines (and converted back
                                     to 44-pax seating) in 1966 and re-registered N196N.  When Alaska Airlines absorbed that carrier
                                     in 1968 they had no use for it in their existing fleet and it was withdrawn from use.   Start up
                                     Pacific Nevada Airlines leased it from Jan to May of 1973 when Alaska were forced to repossess
                                     it back for non payment of lease. It was sold later that year to Pacific Coast Airlines (which may
                                     have been a restructured and re-named Pacific Nevada) and in 1975 passed to Pacific Airlines.
                                     It was repossessed by Crocker National Bank in 1976 and withdrawn from use and broken up
                                     at Long Beach Municipal in 1978.