VH-ANT   'Wandana'                                        c/n 10078

                                                       Essendon,  1955

                                                       This aircraft was built as a C-47A-50-DL with USAAF serial number 42-24216.   It
                                                       was procured from war surplus by ANA in 1946.   It passed to the Ansett-ANA  con-
                                                       cern in 1957 and in 1958 was converted to a freighter.  The shots below are from the
                                                       Peter Gates collection and shows it, (i) at Brisbane in its ultimate (Australian) livery,
                                                       and (ii) carrying the registration XW-TDK, prior to being flown to Cambodia where
                                                       it had been sold following a decade of cargo work in Australia.   Now, it turns out that
                                                       XW-TDK should really have been XW-TDM, so either the sign writer got it wrong or
                                                       (more likely) the paperwork emanating from Cambodia was screwed up. In the event, it
                                                       probably left Australia as it is seen here and was repainted upon reaching Phnom Penh.
                                                       It was shot down in Cambodia by communist rebels in 1973.