VH-BAB  (3)  Douglas DC-3CS1C3G                  (c/n  14050/25495)

                              

                                     This was formerly DCA's VH-CAO and was sold to Brain & Brown and operated by them as a
                                     freighter from 1962 to 1974.   Greg Banfield's shot (above) was taken at Essendon in February
                                     1965.   It passed to Air Express Holdings in 1976 and then was on display at the museum at
                                     Chewing Gum Field, Tallebudgera, Qld in the late 1970s.  When that museum closed it went to
                                     Drage's Air World at Wangaratta, Victoria and when the latter folded it was sold at auction,
                                     although by that time all that remained was the fuselage..   This machine can be seen flying in
                                     formation with the DC-3 VH-SBL at an air show at Point Cook in December 1976 in the
                                     entry for VH-SBL.