VH-TAK      'Evans'                                                              c/n  13338

                                     Essendon, 1957

                                     Started life as a C-47A-25-DK, USAAF serial 42-108949.   Went to the RAAF as A65-52,
                                     call sign VHCIJ.   To Trans Australia in September 1946.   The gorgeous shot by Tom Amor
                                     (via Greg Ball) below shows -TAK refuelling at Longreach en route to Winton carrying the
                                     investigation team to Viscount VH-RMI in September 1966. This DC-3 went to New Guinea
                                     in 1968 and to Forrestair Cargo Pty Ltd in 1975, as seen in the shot at the foot of the page by
                                     Mike Madden, taken at Essendon in May 1975.  Withdrawn from use in 1978, it was scrapped
                                     at Essendon.