VH-CAW  Aero Commander 560E                  (c/n  729-53)

                             

                                In the late 1950s, and with the easing of the currency regulations, the department of Civil Aviation
                                elected to upgrade its aging Ansons with two Aero Commanders, VH-CAU and -CAW. The latter
                                was assigned to the South Australia/Northern Territories Region.  During its tenure with DCA it had
                                several different liveries.  It is seen above at Adelaide Airport in November 1962 in this shot by Geoff
                                Goodall dressed in the then standard DCA paint scheme of the day.  A shot of it taken during its long
                                delivery flight from the US through the UK, and Middle East appears on the The Airways Museum &
                                Civil Aviation Historical Society site at:
                                          http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Aero%20Commander%20560E%20VH-CAW.htm
                                This Commander was eventually sold off by DCA and is still on the Australian Civil Register (and
                                surprisingly still registered as VH-CAW) its latest owner being Mohammed Mostafa dba Coral Sea
                                Airlines Pty Ltd of Townsville, Qld.     George Canciani took a photograph of it a Moorabbin in
                                January 2004 (below) whilst it was under a prior ownership.