VH-TAW    'Brockman'                                                      c/n  12539
                                           Essendon, 1955
                                           An ex C-47A-10-DK, USAAF serial 42-92708, this Dakota saw service with the RAAF         
                                           as A65-40 (call sign VHCUM).    Civilianized to TAA in 1948.    Went to the New Guinea
                                           Sunbird sector in 1960 becoming VH-SBE.    Purchased by CASI (Continental Air Services
                                           Inc) in 1968 and was one of the DC-3s leased by Air America during the Viet Nam war.
                                           This one was registered XW-PFT, based in Vientiane.  It (somehow) survived that S.E. Asian
                                           conflict and was returned to CASI and sold to J.M. Garfinkle, of Tarzana, California, dba East
                                           Asia Air Transport of Phnom Penh, as N83AC.   Its registratiuon was cancelled in 1981. 
                                           Presumably the aircraft was scrapped in Cambodia.