VH-ANM    ''Yannana'                            c/n   18923

                                Essendon, 1954

                                There were actually two VH-ANMs.  The above is the second one.  The first was a C-47-DL
                                serial number 42-32845 formerly with the 10th Air Force in India. It wound its way to Australia
                                after the war becoming ANA's VH-ANM.  It was destroyed in a disastrous hangar fire at Mascot,
                                Sydney on 7 September 1946.   (Which is why I don't have a photograph of it).

                               VH-ANM (2) was built as a C-47A-65-DL with USAAF serial number 42-100460.  It joined ANA
                                in 1946.  In the 1950s it was leased to Queensland Airlines and a couple of shots of it thusly attired
                                appear below.  The first was taken at Mascot in 1951, whilst the lower one is a late Gus Grulke image
                               (via Peter Gates), taken slightly later than mine at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, after the rego had been moved
                                to the tail, and the white top deepened.   In 1957 it was registered to Ansett-ANA following the merger
                               although went immediately to Butler Airlines who converted it to "Viewmaster" standard and repainted it
                               in the new light blue livery as seen in the image at the foot of the page from the Bob Smith collection.  In
                               1961 -ANM was seconded to the New Zealand branch of Ansett as ZK-CAW.  After a stint with Fiji
                               Airways as VQ-FAI it returned to New Zealand and was converted into an adjunct to a McDonald's
                               restaurant!  For more details of this exciting phase in the life of this old lady go to:
                                                                  http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/pages/miscdak5.html