VH-TAR   'Thomas Mitchell'                                                          c/n  92

                                   Essendon, 1954.

                                   Delivered in 1949, this aircraft had its name changed later to 'John Roe' and later still to 'William
                                   Dampier'.  When airlines named aircraft (which, I always thought, gave them a more personalized
                                   touch) it was common for new and more modern additions to the fleet to assume the 'pioneer' names
                                   and hence the older types got pushed down in the hierarchy.   VH-TAR was leased to Guinea Airways
                                   in 1958, and my shot below shows it on a dull day at Essendon in that mixed livery.    It returned to
                                   TAA and then was sold in the USA in 1959. Its history pretty much then parallels that of its sister
                                   craft VH-TAO and a full history of it can be found on Fred Niven's site at:
                                                        http://www.ansettinwa.org/Pages/fredspages/convairs.htm