VH-ABR
'Kanana'
c/n 2029
This
is a pre-War DC-3-232A fitted with Wright Cyclone engines.
It
was originally delivered to
Australian
National Airways in October, 1938 and named "Kanana". During the
war it saw service
with the RAAF as A30-3.
It is seen
above at Essendon in 1955.. It is Australia's oldest airworthy
'real' DC-3, the oldest
being VH-ANR which is static at the Queensland Air Museum at
Caloundra.
Seen below is a nice Peter Gates color shot of it in latter days in
Airlines of South Australia livery.
Beneath that
is a contemporary shot by Martyn Covey taken at the Point Cook Air Show
in February,
2009, wherein it is dressed up in immediate post-war
Ansett livery (although it never flew with the
original Ansett Airways).

