VH-INK
'Kiopana'
c/n 12735
Western Junction, Launceston, 1954
The second of ANA's Britstol 170s
was ex G-AHJC and arrived in Australia in September
1949. It
was retired some ten years later. The Bristol Freighters were
used in the early 1950s
on the
Air Beef Pty Ltd scheme, a company formed, along with MacRobertson
Miller
Aviation for
the transportation of chilled beef from the outlying stations (ranches)
of Western
Australia to
the marketplace. Loading them was far simpler than it had been
with the earlier
DC-3s. This shot was taken at Western Junction
Airport, Launceston, Tasmania in 1953.