VH-ANV
Douglas DC-3CG202A
'Louana'
(c/n 10082)
Sister aircraft to
VH-ANT. It was built as a C-47A-50-DL with USAAF serial
number
42-24220. Its
RAAF call sign was VHCCD. It was procured from war surplus by ANA
in 1946.
However, unlike VH-ANU this aircraft began its career with ANA as a
passenger
liner, (as the shot below,
taken much earlier, illustrates) but was relegated to
freight duties in
1953. It passed to
the Ansett-ANA fleet in 1957 when A.T.I. (Ansett Transport Industries)
took over
ANA. The shot below, by Peter Gates, shows it in this livery.
Like VH-ANT it
was sold in
Cambodia in 1968 becoming
XU-EAH. It was scrapped in 1975 at
Phnom Penh.