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 the nice color shot below. from the archives of the Civil Aviation Historian Society of SA
                                   (via Nigel Daw) shows it in that livery at Parafield.    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