Withdrawn from use by 1976. Jim Millar photo.

Crashed and burned on takeoff at Binbrook, UK, during filming of the movie "Memphis Belle" July 25, 1989. John Hopton photo

VH-REM crashed at Cosgrove, Victoria, on September 24, 1965.

VH-REK photographed from sister ship VH-REL on the last leg of their delivery flight from the US to Australia. It is over the Tasman Sea between Auckland and Sydney. The scientific organisation CSIRO used the two 310s for research work. Photo from Phil Lightband.

N9775 was withdrawn from in 1945 and stuck off charge in 1947. Photo by John Harrison.

NC777 on its second visit to Rose Bay (the first was in November 1938). Qantas installed extra fuel tanks so the aircraft, owned by Dr Richard Archbold, could be used to survey an Indian Ocean air route for the Australian government. In June it island hopped from Port Hedland to Mombasa in Kenya. Guba returned to the US where it was sold to the British Puchasing Commission for use by BOAC. Sunk at its moorings at Pwellheli, Wales, in 1945. The hangar in the photo was for Qantas and completed in October 1939. Demolished after flying boat operations ended at Rose Bay in the 1970s.

One of an excellent series of photos Qantas took of VH-EAD over Sydney and along Sydney's coast. This photo off Box Head, Broken Bay. -EAD was built as an L1049E in 1955 and was upgraded firstly with weather radar and then turned into a Super G with tip tanks. Sold in the US as N9721C in 1960.

CAC photo of the Ceres production line. VH-CEQ was withdrawn from the register in March 1961 without flying while a buyer was found. It finally flew in December that year and was restored to the register the next month as VH-WAX.

VH-UHH was involved in one of the most famous accidents in Australian aviation history. On February 19, 1937 it vanished on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney with two pilots and five passengers on board. Nine days later, Bernard O'Reilly, of the Lamington Guest House, hiked into the McPherson Range convinced that was where the plane had come down. On March 1 he found the wreckage and the two surviving passengers. Two passengers and the pilots died in the crash and the fifth passenger fell to his death over a waterfall trying to reach help.

To Malaysian air force in 1971 as FM-1978. RAAF photo

VH-CLI now with the Central Australian Aviation Museum. Bessie Springs is on McArthur River Station and was once a regular stop for Connellan. Since those days a new airport with a sealed runway and apron has been built 20 miles away at the McArthur River Mine.

A9-93 in service with the Base Torpedo Unit. WFU 1945 and scrapped.

Last flight 1966, scrapped 1971.

Bought by famed aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, G-ABCF was used for record-breaking solo UK-Australia flight in October 1930. Smith sold it to Guy Menzies, who made first solo Australia-New Zealand flight in January 1931. Flight ended with G-ABCF on its back. Until then G-ABCF was a single seater with a fuel tank in front cockpit. Rebuilt as two seater. Crashed at Mascot airport (Sydney International) April 12, 1931, killing pilot and passenger. At time G-ABCF was a landplane. This Milton Kent photo showing it on floats remains unexplained but it might have been in connection with a planned flight to Japan that did not go ahead. Avian never took up allocated marks VH-UPT.

The second FU-24 registered VH-BOM in a few months. This one survived the rigours of agricultural flying to return to New Zealand as ZK-BOG in 1963. The other FU-24 is VH-BOT. Photo by Mal Mitchell.

A52-326 among an impressive RAAF line-up of two Lincolns, a Wirraway and a Beaufighter. In the background is an RAAF P-2E Neptune and a Vampire. -326 was sold for scrap in 1958.

The third DC-4 conversion by Douglas after World War II, NC88884 had been built as a C-54E. Sold by Pan Am in 1961, went to the Spanish air force.

VH-UNK crashed at Maryborough, Queensland, on December 31, 1930. QAN ceased operations soon after.

Destroyed by fire at Mackay, Queensland, on July 1, 1938.

VH-AAG became derelict at Darwin after being damaged in collision with a kangaroo in 1963.