Delivered new to Australian National Airways Pty Ltd

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-INS - August 26, 1956

Accepted by A.N.A. and departed Los Angeles on delivery flight - August 30, 1956

Delivery route was Los Angeles-Honolulu-Nadi - arriving Melbourne - September 2, 1956

Aircraft was named 'Beltana' (running water)

Operated its 'last' service with Ansett-ANA - Sydney-Melbourne - July 2, 1966

Placed in storage at Melbourne's Essendon Airport - last Douglas DC-6B in Australia

Re-entered service with Ansett-ANA - November 2, 1966 to May 11, 1967

Sold to F.E.A.T. via Australian Aircraft Sales P/L - becoming B-2007 - July 29, 1968

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Taipei - July 29, 1968

Delivery route was via Darwin-Kota Kinabalu-Taipei

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - August 1, 1968

Sold to Yung Shing Airlines, Taiwan - becoming B-12201 - October 22, 1972

Withdrawn from service and stored at Taipei - 1977

Derelict - scrapped at Taipei - 1986

VH-INS. Australian National Airways - in the last livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1125-146.)

VH-INS. Australian National Airways - in the last livery at Launceston Airport, January 1957.

(B. Colledge Photograph. 1125-055.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the final livery at Hobart Airport, date unknown.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1125-111.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the final livery at Sydney Airport, November 1965.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-103.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, May 1966.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-191.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, August 1966.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-061.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, January 1967.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-015.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, April 1967.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-060.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, April 1967.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-058.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, May 1967.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-059.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Sydney Airport, May 1967.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-062.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-362.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - in the last livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-363.)

VH-INS. Ansett-ANA - last colors & without titles at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-364.)

B-12201. Yung Shing Airlines - in the last livery at Taipei, 1984.

(G. Wilkes Collection. 1125-130.)