VH-EBP  Douglas DC-4-1009                      (c/n  42920)

                                 

                                     VH-EBP was originally a National Airlines machine (N33681) which was sold to non scheduled
                                     carrier Resort Airlines in 1952 who converted it into an all freighter configuration.  Qantas purchased
                                     it for their growing Air Cargo business in 1955.  This rather uncontrasty and cluttered shot shows
                                     it at Mascot that same year.  It passed to Zantop Air Transport as N601Z in 1959, to TMA (Trans
                                     Mediterranean Airways) as OD-AED in 1962 and to Omni Investment Corp as N480G in 1968.  
                                     From there it was brokered by Carolina Aircraft Corp to Pan African Airlines and incredulously is
                                     listed as "lost in a Biafran bombing raid on Port Harcourt, Nigeria, November 1969".  Whether it
                                     was fitted with bomb racks or whether they just chucked 'em out the door isn't recorded. .