Blue/white Fin

scrapped at Luton in June 1972

Photo caption says Bankstown airport but the hangar with its large vent over the door makes it more likely to be Moorabbin. VH-PSZ crashed near Maitland, NSW, on June 10, 1961, when it ran out of fuel.

8/44: TOS USAAF. 10/44 Transferred to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI s/n KH191. The plane flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of Operations until late 1945 when it was abandoned in Khanpur, India. 1948: TOS Indian Air Force with s/n T-18. 1968: Given to the Indian Air Force Technical College in Jalahali, to be used for mechanic training. 1981: Doug Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain. 5/82: Airfreighted disassembled by a Belfast transport plane to Blackbushe Airport, England. 1984: Doctor Robert F. Collings, and transported by ship to the USA. 6/89: Registered as N224J. 1989: Restored.

8/44: TOS USAAF. 10/44 Transferred to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI s/n KH191. The plane flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of Operations until late 1945 when it was abandoned in Khanpur, India. 1948: TOS Indian Air Force with s/n T-18. 1968: Given to the Indian Air Force Technical College in Jalahali, to be used for mechanic training. 1981: Doug Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain. 5/82: Airfreighted disassembled by a Belfast transport plane to Blackbushe Airport, England. 1984: Doctor Robert F. Collings, and transported by ship to the USA. 6/89: Registered as N224J. 1989: Restored.

8/44: TOS USAAF. 10/44 Transferred to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI s/n KH191. The plane flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of Operations until late 1945 when it was abandoned in Khanpur, India. 1948: TOS Indian Air Force with s/n T-18. 1968: Given to the Indian Air Force Technical College in Jalahali, to be used for mechanic training. 1981: Doug Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain. 5/82: Airfreighted disassembled by a Belfast transport plane to Blackbushe Airport, England. 1984: Doctor Robert F. Collings, and transported by ship to the USA. 6/89: Registered as N224J. 1989: Restored.

Ex-JW9003/Tanzanian Air Force. Registered to Newcal Aviation. Scrapped at Safi November 1986; remains used for PT-6 engine nacelle mock-up in April 1988; fuselage still intact February 1993; taken by road to International Fire & Safety School at Hal Far on 14 February 1994 for fire fighting training.

Some nostalgia from MIACO's Safi facility, as N486F runs up her Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps.

Delivered new to Chicago & Southern (C & S), leased to Pacific Northern Airlines in April of 1955 then sold to PNA. Acquired by WAL thru merger.

Pederson operated as USN-NSF Deep Freeze support

It had last flown with Spantax (1966-1974) and was retired in 1974. Fully broken up circa 1978.

8/44: TOS USAAF. 10/44 Transferred to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI s/n KH191. The plane flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of Operations until late 1945 when it was abandoned in Khanpur, India. 1948: TOS Indian Air Force with s/n T-18. 1968: Given to the Indian Air Force Technical College in Jalahali, to be used for mechanic training. 1981: Doug Arnold/Warbirds of Great Britain. 5/82: Airfreighted disassembled by a Belfast transport plane to Blackbushe Airport, England. 1984: Doctor Robert F. Collings, and transported by ship to the USA. 6/89: Registered as N224J. 1989: Restored.

My first aircraft image! Taken with a Brownie Cresta II camera!

Ex NR786. Damaged beyond repair in a fatal accident at Audley End on 30 June 1991. A rebuild was considered but parts were reportedly used in the rebuild of G-AHAG. The registration was eventually cancelled on 26 July 2013 as permanently withdrawn from use.