VH-AFA  'Hume'                     c/n  9813                          Previous Identity:  42-23951

                                        Three shots of -AFA in various stages of its career:  My own, above, at Essendon in 1955, below,
                                        from the Dick Hourigan collection showing VH-AFA at Archerfield in April 1945, immediately
                                        after civil conversion for the Commonwealth Government for the planned new postwar Govern-
                                        ment airline which became TAA, and, at the foot of the page, from the NLA, the aircraft in its
                                        original TAA livery.  This DC-3 was loaned to Qantas while the new airline was being established.
                                        It then flew with TAA until 1957 when it was sold to Australian Aircraft Sales who had already
                                        on-sold 4 other TAA DC-3s to West African Airways.  VH-AFA  became VR-NCO.     The
                                        contract to ferry these 5 DC-3s from Australia to Lagos, Nigeria was given to Captain Bryan
                                        Monkton, founder of Trans Oceanic Airlines in Sydney and South Pacific Airlines in Honolulu.
                                        He captained each DC-3 over 4 months with a different copilot on each delivery.