VH-INE   Douglas DC-3CG202A  'Mungana'                                              (c/n  9452)

                                      

                                              A former USAAF C-47A-30-DL (42-23590), -INE operated in Australia during the war
                                              with the call sign VHCGI.    Post war it was acquired by Australian National Airways and
                                              appeared to have remained a  freighter for all of its Australian service.  Hence, it never did
                                              carry a white top.   I saw it at Essendon in 1954.  The MacArthur Job collection shot below
                                              (via CAHS) was at the same venue but probably a little earlier.
                                              In 1956 it was sold to Canadian Aircraft Renters as CF-JIP.  Later as CF-CAR. It was
                                              sold in  South Africa in 1966 becoming ZS-EDX and operated by Air Cape. 
                                              It moved on to Air Kasai in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the former Zaire) as
                                              9Q-CTR.       Now, bear in mind, when it left Australia it was not one of ANA's better
                                              machines, shall we say.    By the time it got to the Congo it surely must have been a regular
                                              heap.  Whatever, it is reported as 'stored' at Ndjili Kinshasa.  Is it possible this old bird
                                              still exists?