Intended to be Winston Churchill's personal aircraft but he preferred the Avro York. AL504 was lost near the Azores on March 27, 1945 while crossing the Atlantic from the UK to Canada. Some floating debris located but there was no trace of the seven crew and seven VIP passengers. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Ex AL552 with the RAF. Civilianised as G-AHZR in 1946 and registered as SX-DAB 10 Dec 1949. Cancelled 10 Feb 1951 and returned to the UK. To F-BEDS 29 Jun 1951 with Transports Aériens Alpes Provence. CofA expired 1 Jun 1954, stored at Marseiile. Broken up there during the 1960s.

G-AGKT transitions from BOAC camouflage to Qantas bare metal. It was used to fly between Australia and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) as part of a wartime UK-Australia air link. G-AGKT remained with Qantas after the war and was scrapped in Sydney in 1947. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Became G-AHYD with BOAC in 1946. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

G-AGKT carries a small kangaroo after wartime service connecting Australia with Sri Lanka. It was scrapped at Sydney in 1947. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Reregistered VH-EAI in June 1947. Operated by Qantas but owned by BOAC. Photo from: National Library of Australia

At a London airfield, exiled Dutch Queen Wilhelmina greets her daughter Juliana who returns from her safe house in Canada, VVIP enough to use Churchill's personal Liberator. Commando had a bed and a galley installed. It was converted with a PB4Y-2 Privateer single tailfin and a solid nose earlier in 1944. The aircraft was lost without trace in the Atlantic on 27 March 1945. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

In 1944, Liberators replaced Catalinas on the long wartime route from Western Australia to Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The aircraft came from BOAC but were operated by Qantas. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales

G-AGKT was provided by BOAC to Qantas to operate from Australia to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) replacing Catalinas. The long-haul route avoided Japanese airspace and opened a quicker route to the UK than via the Pacific and the US. -AGKT, stripped of paint, continued with Qantas after the war and was the first Qantas aircraft to carry the kangaroo logo. Withdrawn from use in 1947, it was scrapped at Sydney airport without entering the Australian register. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales

RAF serial number AL594 in use by the AAF Air Transport Command.