VH-TAB      DC-4-1009          'John Gilbert'                                c/n  43066

                                            Delivered in 1946.  Was leased to British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA) in 1948
                                            as VH-BPB 'Endeavour', returning to TAA the following year.  The photo above, from the
                                            Geoff Goodall collection shows it at Launceston, Tasmania in September 1962  as a freighter.
                                            In my own shot, immediately below, taken at Essendon in 1956 it was still in mixed pax/cargo
                                            configuration.  It was leased to Ansett-ANA in 1959 as a mixed freight/passenger machine and
                                            Richard Maclean's photo (# 3) shows it in the markings worn during that lease.  At the foot of
                                            the page is a Greg Banfield image taken at Mascot in February 1966 showing the old lady in
                                            latter-day TAA livery   VH-TAB was sold to Air Vietnam in 1970 becoming XV-NUL.  It was
                                            withdrawn from use in 1975.