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Ford Tri-Motor
- Reg: A45-1 photos
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- Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
- Photo Date: Mar 16, 1988
- Uploaded: Jan 26, 2010
- Other Location - PNG War Museum - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Rare close cropped rear Port-side view of former RAAF 24 Squadron Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor A45-1 at the Port Moresby War Museum on 16Mar1988. The corrugated aluminium wing and fuselage skin is distinctive. (The nose of P-38F 42-12647 is at rear.) The aircraft was a UK-based Ford demonstrator as NC401H, then owned by Lord Lovelace and operated in East Africa from Dec 1930 as G-ABHO "Tanganyika Star". To the British Air Navigation Co. in Nov 1933 (named "Voyager"), then sold to Guinea Airways on 26 Oct 1935 becoming VH-UBI, and was impressed into RAAF Service on 06 Feb 1942. She crashed at Myola Lake on 24 Nov 1942, and was recovered by the RAAF in 1979 and taken to the War Museum. Low res photo. Apologies for Quality of this 1988 photo.
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Rare close cropped rear Port-side view of former RAAF 24 Squadron Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor A45-1 at the Port Moresby War Museum on 16Mar1988. The corrugated aluminium wing and fuselage skin is distinctive. (The nose of P-38F 42-12647 is at rear.) The aircraft was a UK-based Ford demonstrator as NC401H, then owned by Lord Lovelace and operated in East Africa from Dec 1930 as G-ABHO "Tanganyika Star". To the British Air Navigation Co. in Nov 1933 (named "Voyager"), then sold to Guinea Airways on 26 Oct 1935 becoming VH-UBI, and was impressed into RAAF Service on 06 Feb 1942. She crashed at Myola Lake on 24 Nov 1942, and was recovered by the RAAF in 1979 and taken to the War Museum. Low res photo. Apologies for Quality of this 1988 photo.Camera
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- Reg: A45-1 photos
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Ford Tri-Motor
- Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
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Other Location - PNG War Museum - Port Moresby
- Papua New Guinea