HARS members, Mike De La Hunty, Trevor Wallace, Bill Smith, Clive Gibbons, John Fields, Don Binskin and Ron braved the drenching rain and monsoonal weather in Brisbane to continue progress on the HARS DC-4. Due to the excessive rain and water, members occupied their time with the recovery of the DC-4 spares inventory.  With the assistance of [...]

  Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company Inc. at Santa Monica and delivered to the U.S.A.A.F. on 14/5/1945 seeing war service as 44-9126. The only difference with this aircraft from the other types was that it had a different fuel tank arrangement whereby the cabin tanks were replaced by collapsible bag tanks in the wing. Whilst [...]