VH-EWS    Lockheed L414-08 Hudson IV                              (c/n  414-6034)

                               

                                      This was the former VH-EWB, re-registered as VH-EWS in March 1958.   It is seen aboive
                                      in the hangar at Tamworth, NSW in July 1962 two years after it had been withdrawn from service
                                      by East-West Arlines.   Photo from the John Hopton collection.  It was sold to John Fairfax and
                                      Sons shortly after (September 1962) becoming VH-SMO.