VH-TBD
(AP-AMK) Bristol 170 Mk 31M
Freighter
(c/n 13191)
As with its sister craft VH-TBC, the
registration VH-TBD was never officially taken up. The Bristol
had been
acquired from the Pakistan Air Force in 1961 and was eventually reduced
to spares at
Bankstown. Greg Banfield's photograph above was taken
outside the de Havilland facility at that
field on
8 November 1964. The tail in the background was that
of the Catalina VH-AGB which
was also
to suffer the same fate. AP-AMK was painted in a drab olive green
and brown camouflage.