VH-ANJ
'Kadana'
c/n 9105
Essendon, 1955 (VH-ANQ in background)
Built as a C-47-DL and given USAAF serial number
42-32879. It was seconded to
the US
Navy in Brisbane
during the war and civilianized in 1946. It passed to Ansett-
ANA
in 1957 and did stints with Victorian Air Coach
Services (a
1960s lower cost
commuter
service) and also with Airlines of NSW. Greg Banfield took
a shot of it in
those latter markings at Mascot in November of 1963 (below). It
was
damaged beyond
repair in a landing
at Warrnambool, Victoria in 1966, taken to
Essendon Airport, and
reduced to scap in
1969.