VH-TOD  (1)  Short S.45 Solent 3                              (c/n  S.1303)

                           

                                  Last of the Solents for Trans Oceanic was VH-TOD, seen here docked at Rose Bay in 1952
                                  in this image from the Geoff Goodall collection.   Previously BOAC's G-AHIO, it departed the
                                  U.K, for Australia in November of 1951.    Like its sister craft VH-TOB it was sold to South
                                  Pacific Airlines and ferried to Oakland, California in November 1955 to become N9945F.