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Douglas DC-3 VH-UZJ
Douglas DC-3 VH-UZJ - Refueling at Kingsford-Smith Mascot 1941 (Courtesy John Hewson)
Douglas DC-3 VH-UZJ - Kingsford-Smith Mascot 1941 (Courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways PTY. LTD. DC-4 VH-ANF "Loongana". Sydney Airport mid-1954. This aircraft suffered a wheels up landing at Eagle Farm Airport Brisbane 28 November 1954 and after repair was converted to freighter configuration. (Original photo courtesy John Hewson.)
Australian National Airways PTY. LTD. DC-4 VH-ANB "Lackrana". At Sydney Mascot Airport late 1947 early 1948. (Original photo courtesy John Hewson.)
Douglas DC-2 VH-UXJ "Loongana" of ANA. Taken on December 4, 1936 on the aircraft's initial test flight at Essendon after arrival in Australia. The test was carried out by Captain Clarrie Scott and the aircraft was finally withdrawn from service in December 1947. (Original photo courtesy John Hewson)
Douglas DC-3 VH-UZK "Kurana" of ANA taken at Sydney's Mascot Aerodrome in August 1945. The aircraft was unfortunately lost in a crash at Mt. Macedon north of Melbourne on November 8, 1948. (Original Photo courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-INX "Katana" photographed at Sydney's Mascot Airport around 1952. This aircraft was purchased by the airline in April 1951. A pair of ANA DC-3s are on the right and in the distance is earth moving equipment filling in the Cooks River to make way for the present day East-West runway. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-ANB "Lackrana" photographed in the late 1940s possibly at Hobart's Cambridge Airport. To the left taxying is an Ansett Airways DC-3. "Lackrana" was purchased new by ANA in March 1946 and served with the airline until being sold in April 1958. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-6 VH-INV "Nairana" at Sydney's Mascot Airport in 1954. Purchased from National Airlines in September 1953 and sold to a US company in March 1960. The aircraft eventually crashed at Oakland Airport, California in January 1967. To the right is a RAAF DC-3 and behind that aircraft a Butler Air Transport DeHavilland Heron. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-AND "Tatana" at Mascot Airport late 1940s. Purchased new by the airline in June 1946, the aircraft crashed at Sydney on October 16,1952. Behind is ANA DC-3 VH-INM "Iragana". (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-ANG "Palana" on take off from Mascot Airport 1955. Purchased from Western Airlines in November 1948, it was sold to 20th Century Aircraft in April 1958 and crashed in India in 1961. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-INY "Laxapana" at Melbourne's Essendon Airport 1954-55. Purchased in 1951 the aircraft was eventually converted to an Aviation Traders Carvair. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-6 VH-INW "Kwinana" at Essendon Airport 1955. Purchased from National Airlines in September 1953 the aircraft was eventually scrapped in Miami in 1977. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 VH-ANE "Arkana" photographed at Cambridge Airport Hobart 1954-55. The aircraft was purchased new in July 1946. (Original photograph courtesy John Hewson)
Australian National Airways stewardesses preparing in flight meals in the DC-6 galley.
