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SKYTRAIN/42-92196

Serial #: 42-92196
Construction #: 11970
Civil Registration:
  VH-EWB
  VH-PWN
  ZK-AMR

Model(s):
  C-47A-1-DK Skytrain
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2007

History:
Built by Douglas at the Oaklahoma City plant, October 1943.
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 42-92196.

• BOC: October 13, 1943

Delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force as A65-21.

• BOC: December 15, 1943
• SOC: October 01, 1957
• Assigned radio callsign 'VHCTC'
• Assigned to No 36 Squadron, 3 AD
• Transferred to No 37 Squadron and coded 'FD-I' and later 'FD-G'
• Transferred to 9 C. U. based at Torokina, September 01, 1944
• Utilised in the return of ex Prisoners Of War from Java, Sumatra and Thailand
• Transferred to 1 A.D., May 06, 1946
• Transferred to 3 A.D., August 01, 1946
• Transferred to No 36 Squadron, September 30, 1946
• Transferred to the 86th Transport Wing, December 26, 1947
• Transferred to 2 C. S., February 18, 1948
• Withdrawn from service, September 23, 1957
• Flown Tocumwal - Tamworth for storage pending conversion to civil airliner standards

East West Airlines Pty Ltd, Tamworth, Australia, August 25, 1958-1973.

• Registered as VH-EWB.
• Named Namoi City.
• Later changed to Warwick City.
• Entered service, August 29, 1958
• Leased to M.M.A. in the East-West livery except for MMA rudder titles, October 06, 1965 to January 15, 1966
• Reregistered as VH-PWM, November 27, 1967
• Converted for survey work with the fitting of magnetometer, July 1968
• Chartered to Compagnie Generale de Geographique for survey work in PNG & Indonesia, August 1968
• Chartered by N. S. W. Ambulance Service, April-July 1969
• Returned to Compagnie Generale de Geographique, July 1969 - October 1970
• Returned to East West at Tamworth and converted back to passenger configuration, October 1970
• Emerged from a major overhaul at Tamworth in the Connair livery, September 23, 1973
• Performed East West's last DC-3 passenger flight from Narromine - Albion Park - Tamworth, October 01, 1973
• Ferried Tamworth - Alice Springs on delivery to Connair, October 03, 1973

Connair Pty Ltd, October 12, 1973.
Rebel Air Pty Ltd, November 27, 1979.

• Painted to represent the T.A.A. DC-3 'VH-AES' in the film A Town Like Alice, May 1980

Wan-See Company Pty Ltd, Hamilton, N.S.W., June 27, 1986.
A. McGreevy, Alexandra, New Zealand, July 04, 1986

• Departed Sydney on the ferry flight to New Zealand, July 07, 1986
• Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register, August 18, 1986
• Registered as ZK-AMR, August 29, 1986

Classic Air Services Ltd, September 29, 1986.
Fieldair Freight, Ardmore, May 29, 1989.

• Withdrawn from use and stored, March 1993

North Shore Helicopters, Albany, March 1993.

• Leased to Morris Catering for use in Cambodia, March 1993
• Later operated in Somalia and Kenya by Morris Catering.

Noted stored, 2007.

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