VH-JCM Lockheed 414-08 Hudson
IV
(c/n 6039)
Grainy shot by Bruce Winley
(via the Ron Cuskelly collection) of a recently demobbed Hudson
(ex A16-110)
which went to work for Curtis Madsen Aircrafts Pty Ltd in 1947.
Owned by
Vernard James Madsen, of Leichhardt, NSW the aircraft was chartered to
European Air
Transport and
used on "migrant runs" from Athens to Sydney in 1947 and '48. It
was later
used on
regularly scheduled services from Sydney to Cootamundra and
Temora. It was sold
to East-West
Airlines in 1950 and became VH-EWE.