Daniel Leahy  Caloundra

Photos and text by Daniel Leahy from his September 2001 visits.

DC-3

 

Home of the Queensland Air Museum. They have one of two surviving RAAF Venturas plus a DC-3 used by General MacArthur.

I know that the DC-3 was originally a civil aircraft which was impressed into USAAF service and carried the radio call sign VHCXL in Australia. It was later allocated the USAAF serial 44-83229. In 1946 it was given the civil registration VH-ANR and used bu Australian National Airways. It was once used as a transport for General Douglas MacArthur

Also, in their collection is a propeller blade from a Japanese Betty bomber. It was apparently recovered from a swamp near Kaving, New Ireland in 1978. Now on display at QAM, Caloundra.

 


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