VH-ANU            'Lemana'                                        c/n  13521

                                                    Essendon, 1956

                                                    This aircraft spent all its life as a freighter, (and therefore was never white-topped).  It was built
                                                    as a C-47A-25-DK with USAAF serial number 42-93592.  It was sold to Pacific Air Transport
                                                    in 1944 and  purchased by ANA out of Manila, in 1945.    However, it was not one of those
                                                    aircraft assumed by Ansett when that airline took over ANA, since it had been sold to Mt. Cook
                                                    Airlines in 1955 as ZK-BKD.  It spent time with Fieldair in New Zealand, but I am not sure if it
                                                    was converted to a crop duster or not (several DC-3s were).  It wound up as a decoration for
                                                    the "Smash Palace Wine Bar" in Gisborne, N.Z.