VH-BKY Lockheed
414-08 Hudson IVA (c/n 6034)
The above image comes courtesy of Geoff Goodall, while thr
drawing below is from the Fred Niven
collection..
Curtis Madsen Airlines operated in NSW in the late 1940s, primarily
on a route from
Sydney to Cootamundra and
Temora. The airline
folded in 1950 and VH-BKY was sold to East-
West
Airlines as VH-EWB. . A complete history of this machine, along
with more photos of it in
subsequent identities can
be found at: Ron Cuskelly's site at:
http://www.adastra.adastron.com/aircraft/hudson/vh-fxf.htm