SPANZ was the New Zealand subsidiary of Australia's Ansett Transport Industries, which owned several Australian airlines. ZK-BYE was ex Ansett (VH-IND). The photo was taken the month SPANZ ceased trading. -BYE was sold in Laos. Eric Allen photo

Build as a C-47A. Sold to ANA in Australia VH-IND. Double cargo doors replaced by a single passenger door and P&W R-1830 engines replaced by Wright R-1820s in line with rest of the fleet. ANA taken over by Ansett. VH-IND transferred to subsidiary South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand (SPANZ) as ZK-BYE. Given Viewmaster windows and P&W R-1830 refitted. WFU when SPANZ closed. Sold to Air America in Laos as XW-PFX in February 1968.

The month of January 1979 saw a total of 138 extra cargo charters at Rotterdam due to a strike from British truck drivers. Initially British Air Ferries would operate 9 flights a day between Southend and Rotterdam. Mainly with cigarettes from the UK destined for the Middle-East. The harsh winter delayed several flights. After 17 January BAF stopped operating to Rotterdam because they got a better contract flying parts between Ford factories in the UK. Transavia took over the flights to Southend.

Delivered new to Qantas as VH-VZF 1st Sep 2009 and transferred to JetConnect as ZK-ZQA 16th Sep 2009 in full Qantas livery. Back to Qantas as VH-VZF 25th Oct 2017