VH-BPF  (1)    Douglas DC-6                   (c/n 43126)

                              

                                  A somewhat better photograph than that of VH-BPE but still not brilliant.  BCPA's DC-6s were
                                  not particularly photogenic.    It was tough to get far enough away to get the entire machine in the
                                  frame, and when one did that the markings tended to be out of contrast.  This was Essendon,
                                  Melbourne, early 1954. The inscription above the rego on the fin were the names of the cities
                                  on the route.  Like the three remaining BCPA DC-6s, VH-BPF was sold to Tasman Empire
                                  Airways of New Zealand in May of 1954 where it became, first ZK-BFA and then re-assigned
                                  as ZK-BGA.          Bill Larkins' shot of it below shows it on finals into SFO in 1948.