Ordered new by Australian National Airways in 1944

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-ANB - November 1, 1945

Registered to Australian National Airways Pty Ltd

Aircraft named 'Lackrana' (great)

Accepted by A.N.A. at Santa Monica - March 7, 1946

Departed Santa Monica at 1400 hrs on delivery flight to Australia (Capt H.F. Baker) - March 7, 1946

Arrived Melbourne's Laverton Airport at conclusion of delivery flight - March 12, 1946

Delivery route: San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Nadi-Melbourne

During this delivery flight / commercial service a movie was screened in the main lounge

Entered Australian service with A.N.A. - March 1946

Chartered on an ad hoc basis to B.C.P.A. for trans Pacific services - September 15, 1946 to April 21, 1948

Inaugurated A.N.A.'s non-stop Sydney-Hobart service - February 15, 1952

Withdrawn from service and sold to Twentieth Century Aircraft, Burbank, California - April 8, 1958

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to California - April 9, 1958

Ferry route: Melbourne-Tontouta-Canton Island-Honolulu-Los Angeles-Las Vegas-Burbank

Flight crew: Capts K. McFadden, R.W. Davies; F/O N. Smith; F/E McDonough; Navigator W.C Kennedy

Entered onto U. S. Aircraft Register as N5517V - April 16, 1958

Cancelled fromAustralian Aircraft Register - May 5, 1958

Sold to Trans Mediterranean Airways, Lebanon - May 15, 1959

Entered onto Lebanese Aircraft Register as OD-ADK

Sold to Air Gabon - July 1971

Entered onto Gabonese Aircraft Register as TR-LPU

Sold to Sofimatex - December 1971

Entered onto Congolese Aircraft Register as TN-ACF

Sold to l'Agence de Messageries Aeriennes du Zaire

Entered onto Zaire Aircraft Register as 9Q-COK

Withdrawn from use, stored then scrapped during 1973

VH-ANB. Australian National Airways - in the white top livery at Mildura Airport, December 1953.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-021.)

VH-ANB. Australian National Airways - in the last livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport.

(B. Colledge Photograph. 1125-299.)

VH-ANB. Australian National Airways - in the last livery at Wagga Airport, December 1956.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-159.)