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.