Not the real VH-BPA, but ex N5590C painted as such. There never was a DC-3 registered VH-BPA.

Nice to see a Douglas DC-3 visiting Adelaide wish they came more often.

USAAF 42-93010 - RAAF A65-46/VHCIC. This aircraft had a number of Australian registrations including VH-JVF and VH-CAR. Seen here in the Aiir Queensland livery at Cairns.

USAAF 42-93010 - RAAF A65-46 This aircraft had a number of Australian registrations including VH-CIC VH-JVF AND VH-CAR Seen here in the Air Queensland livery at Cairns.

VH-PWN was withdrawn from Air Queensland service in 1987. VH-PWN had its double cargo doors replaced by a pre-war style passenger door, probably during its years with East-West Airlines. Other EWA C-47s also had the single door fitted.

Allocated U.S. serial number 44-76613 March 26, 1945 Transferred to the R.A.F. under lend / lease agreement at Montreal as KN470 - March 28, 1945 Returned to U.S.A.A.F. as 44-76613 - May 13, 1947 it became H-717 with the Pakistan Air Force on the 25th of November in 1947.Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-ANMA - January 11, 1954 Sold to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-MML - April 20, 1954. It was sold to Air Niugini in January 1974 and registered P2-MML. it was also operated by Bush Pilots. Dick Lang Safaris, Dakota National Air.

This F27-200 Friendship VH-FNW was first ordered by All Nippon Airways on the 3rd of July 1963. First flight was under registration PH-FFV in June 1964.It entered the Japanese register as JA8632. it was later sold to Ansett Airlines on the 10th of November 1971 and registered VH-FNW.It entered service with Ansett Airlines of South Australia in 1971 and leased to MMA in June 1973. It was also flown by Bush Pilots and Air Queensland which sold it to Pakistan AP-BDF transferred to the Pakistan Air Force as 10254 on August 2 1994. Itcrashed into mountains in Feb. 2003 with fatal results.

Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Corporation at Oklahoma City in Oklahoma and rolled off the production line on 28/3/1944. Aircraft was designated as a C-47A-20-DK

Seen here at Cairns in Queensland this DC-3 has quite a history. It was built in 1943 and was operated by the USAAF as 43-49219. It also served in the Philippines as PI-C486 and VH-PNM with Patair, Bush Pilots and Air Queensland. It was reregistered VH-SBT in 1984 and exported to New Zealand as ZK-DAK in 1987.

Resting between flights.

This DC-3 also served with East West Airlines as VH-EWA and VH-EWE. It was registered VH-PWN in Nov 1967. it also served with Bush Pilots and saw time in Papua &New Guinea. Seen here showing off her Air Queensland livery. It also served Dick Langs Desert Air Safaris. it Entered the New Zealand Register as ZK-AMS and later returned to Australia as VH-CWS This Registration later also used by another DC-3, c/n 26001.

VH-BPL had a long history in Australia, starting with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. It went to Qantas after the war and used on services in Papua New Guinea, then an Australian territory. It passed to Trans- Australia Airlines when it replaced Qantas in the territory and then to Air Niugini on independence. It entered the Australian register again in 1982, as VH-BPL. It is now with the Qantas Founders Museum, at Longreach, Queensland, restored as a static exhibit in its original Qantas markings (VH-EAP).

While VH-BPK is still in BPA markings, the airline had changed its name in December 1981 to Air Queensland. -BPK remained with the airline until 1984 when it was sold in the US as N368SA.

Delivered to Bush Pilots Airways in 1979, which became Air Queensland in 1981. VH-BPA was exported to the US as N1005Y in 1984

Sold in Pakistan in 1988