VH-TAC    DC-4                    'John Gould'                                 c/n  7466

                                          Built as a C-54A-5-DO, it was delivered to the USAAF in 1944 under a 1941 contract
                                          having serial number 41-107447.   It was civilianized in 1946 for the (then) Argentinean
                                          national carrier Flota Aerea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) as LV-ABP.. TAA purchased it
                                          in 1954.  It was the first of TAA's DC-4s to be relegated to freighter duties (in 1959) and,
                                          like VH-TAB, did a stint under lease to Ansett-ANA (in 1969).    The image immediately
                                          below, by Greg Banfield, was taken at Mascot in December 1963 showing -TAC as a
                                          'Cargo Master'.    Originally named 'John Gould' it became 'Nat Buchanan' when the
                                          Viscount VH-TVP took the former name.  The shot at the foot of the page (also by Greg)
                                          was taken at Mascot in April 1970 and shows  -TAC having now been modified to include
                                          a DC-6 style radar nose.  It was sold to Air Siam in August 1970 becoming HS-VGX.
                                          Eagle Aircraft in the U.K. acquired it in 1974 when it was registered G-BCDT before
                                          going to Royal Air Lao in 1975 as XW-PKH.     It was destroyed in 1975 at Phnom Penh
                                          Airport during a Communist attack.