VH-MAB  de Havilland D.H.104 Dove 5                      (c/n  04119)

                              

                                  This Dove was purchased by Mandated Airlines in 1950 from East African Airways where it
                                  flew as VP-KDG.  The aircraft was built in 1948.  In 1955 it was acquired by Airlines (WA)
                                  Ltd of Perth, where it is seen in the above photograph.  AWA soon re-registered it into their
                                  series as VH-AWF.  However, after a very short tenure it was sold to MacRobertson Miller
                                  Aviation and re-registered VH-MMP.     Its next owner (1959) was a company named Air
                                  Charter and they registered it as VH-RAJ.   In 1962 it was re-registered VH-TLU and a year
                                  later as VH-RCI with South Australia Air Taxi.   1965 saw it with City Center Air Taxi, now
                                  as VH-CTS who (mercifully for the bloke assigning the registrations) wrote it off in an accident
                                  at Lovely Banks Field, Geelong on 17 Nov 1968.   It wound up in an air museum in Mildura.