
VH-INX
'Kattana'
c/n 18327
Western Junction Airport, Launceston, 1952
This aircraft was an ex C-54B-5-DO
built for the USAAF (43-17128) in May 1944.
Post war it went to Pacific Overseas Airlines as
N74628, then to South Africa as ZS-BYO,
then to the UK Silver City mining operation
as G-ALEP. ANA purchased it in 1951, and
it remained with them (well, Ansett-ANA,
anyway) until it was retired in 1970. It was broken
up at Melton,
and the remains were still around as late as the
mid-1980s. Greg Banfield's
shot (below) shows it in full Ansett-ANA
Cargomaster livery at Mascot in February 1963.
