Making two flights to Melbourne in two days both from Townsville, is VH-UYB.

Parked up at Brisbane is this fantastic tribute to the RAAF by Alliance Airlines.

What makes this photo unusual is the Australian National Airways logo. UYB was owned by ANA but the ANA logo on the fin has been changed to AOA aka Airlines of Australia. ANA owned AOA which continued to operate as a separate airline until 1942 on services north of Brisbane. Ross Plains airport was opened in 1930. Postwar the RAAF aerodrome at Garbutt became Townsville's civil airport. Photo from: Townsville City Library

This aircraft was towed to this terminal gate on Sunday May 23, 2021. It had arrived in Adelaide on Thursday May 20 having flown from Orange NSW to Mildura Vic as Unity9838 then on to Adelaide as Unity9839. It had been reported that Qantas would utilise Alliance E190s for new regular services from/to Adelaide later in the year but from observations of flight records on May 25, it appeared at least some of those services had commenced. Up to May 25 though, this particular aircraft had no flight record after arriving on May 20.

Withdrawn from use 1946 and scrapped at Essendon in 1948