VH-TAD  DC-4-1009      'McDouall Stuart'                              c/n  43068

                                    Delivered new from Santa Monica in 1946, VH-TAD served the airline until 1969 when
                                    it was sold to International Air Development as CF-LOY and worked in Canada's Northwest
                                    Territories.   In its latter years with TAA it was renamed ' John Ross'.  It was probably used as
                                    a freighter (or mixed freight/passenger configuration) when operated in Canada.     European
                                    Asiatic Airlines purchased it in 1960 when it bore the US  'foreign operated' style (i.e. outside
                                    of the U.S.) registration N9702F.  It was last heard of in storage in Delhi, India in 1965.
                                    Seen below are two historic images of -TAD from the Bruce Robinson collection.  Immediately
                                    below it is seen in its original, fuselage mounted rego markings, in company with VH-TAA
                                    outside the old TAA terminal at Essendon, probably in the late 1940s.  Following that is an
                                    early TAA publicity shot. .