A65-9 C-47A C/N 9286
Delivered to the RAAF 01/05/43. 'VH-CTI' 24 sqn.
To QANTAS as VH-BAL Registration not taken up.
Changed to VH-EAM 12/12/46.
21/07/53, VH-EWA East West Airlines.
28/05/59, VH-EWF 'Peel City'.
02/06/65, leased to Airlines of South Australia.
27/11/67, VH-PWN Pacific & Western Aviation Ltd - Tamworth.
1971, leased to Queensland & Pacific Airways. East West Airlines.
Bush Pilots Airways until 1979.
Cairns Apt Fire Service damaged by fire 11/80.
Reading
this one wonders about the "Cairns Apt Fire Service damaged by fire 11/80". It seems the aircraft did have a life beyond the end of Bushies?