VH-TAV      'Todd'                                                                            c/n  13622
                                        Essendon, 1955
                                        Built as a C-47A-25-DK, this Dakota was assigned USAAF serial 42-93683, and was
                                        civilianized in Manila, before going to Qantas Empire Airways as VH-AII in 1945.  It was
                                        re-registered VH-EBI in 1949.   In 1950 it was acquired by TAA  and re-registered into
                                        their sequence.   It passed to the TAA's New Guinea ('Sunbird') operation in the mid 1960s
                                        and was re-registered VH-SBJ.  It was sold (donated?) to CASI (Continental Air Services)
                                        in Laos in 1969 and became XW-PEE.   From there it appears to have received a US regis-
                                        tration N13622 (same as its c/n) and sold in December of 1970.  Its history from then on is
                                        obscure. 

                                 

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