One of four DC-2's delivered to Swissair prewar - HB-ITA/E/I/O - taken shortly after delivery. Obtained from Swissair 50 years ago.

US Navy 9993 delivered 07-Sep-1935, struck off charge 28-Aug-1944, to NC39165 registered by Jan-1946, to N39165 reregistered 1949. It is here representing KLM's famous PH-AJU "Uiver" from the 1934 Mildenhall-Melbourne race, with race number 44. Its real US registration is visible under the tailplane.

A former RAAF aircraft, A30-11 was one of several DC-2s that had had been stored next to Bankstown airport by aviation pioneer Sid Marshall. It was acquired in 1979 by the West Albury Rotary Club for a memorial to the original PH-AJU, which had landed in Albury under arduous conditions in 1934. Control surfaces were fabricated from sheet aluminium and other non-aviation materials were used in its assembly. Safety concerns due to corrosion forced its removal from display in the early 2000s. In 2017 A30-11 was being restored for a new Uiver Memorial in Albury.

After a considerable time in the holding pattern DC-2 'Uiver' entered the arena during the last Coventry Classic Air Show. The original crashed in adverse weather in Iraq on its second journey to Batavia, in December 1934. NC39165 redid the London-Melbourne-London journey during 1983-1984. In 1999, the Aviodrome museum acquired NC39165 from its owner in the U.S. and brought her to Europe once again. After several years of flying she was put on display indoors at Lelystad airport, although still airworthy.

Three CMA C-39's are in the background. The C-39 had the DC-2's slab-sided fuselage and nose lights, combined with the DC-3's larger fin. XA-DOQ (right) was built in July 1939 for the USAAC as 38-520. Sold to CMA in November 1944. Crashed in Mexico on 27 November 1951. From CMA 60 years ago.

Painted as the famous 'Uiver' the unique flying DC-2 is seen in a modest turn during a rather spectacular flying display over Coventry airport.

A pre-delivery image of Panagra's first DC-2. This provides a good view of the DC-2's slimmer fuselage, propellors and engine cowlings; also the nose landing light arrangement. From Douglas 60 years ago.

VH-CDZ was grounded after a minor landing accident at Bankstown in 1957. For several years it sat next to Marshall's hangar (out of sight to the left of this photo) until the area was needed for a car park. It was then towed to the middle of the airport and the Marshall Airways titles removed. After Sid Marshall died, the DC-2 was sold to an American Airlines pilot but an export permit was refused. It has since been intermittently under restoration in Australia but its current state is not known. Photo by the late Bob Kensett.

Was officially registered to Richard M. Rosser (Graham, TX) as N8486D in Nov 1981, and to the Confederate Air Force in Apr 1983, with the same registration. But the aircraft was never delivered and remained at Bankstown, and the registration was never applied. It was cancelled from the US register on 17 Dec 1984.

The first DC-2 for Panagra, delivered on 2 September 1934. The type was used on their route from Miami down the west coast of South America. Damaged beyond repair at Arajuno, Ecuador, on 31 July 1944. Photo obtained from Douglas.

A30-14 photographed in its fading wartime camouflage in the yard of Sid Marshall, aviation pioneer, aircraft collector and the owner of Marshall Airways. Marshall, who died in 1975, kept a collection of derelict aircraft, cars and buses where he lived adjoining Bankstown Airport. A30-14 was bought by him in 1947 as a source of spares for DC-2 VH-CDZ. After Marshall's death, A30-14 was sold the Dutch Dakota Association for display at the Aviodrome.

N39165 was flown to Australia to mark the 50th anniversary of the original PH-AJU "Uiver" winning the handicap section of the MacRobertson Miller London-to-Melbourne air race. Air Race 44, Uiver did so while operating the regular KLM service to Batavia (now Jakarta) and despite a dramatic night landing on the racecourse at Albury aided by car headlights. N39165 is now part of the Aviodrome collection Lelystad Airport.

Delivered to Eastern Air Lines as NC13782 in December 1934. Sold to the Australian Air Force as A30-9 in December 1940. Bought by Sid Marshall in 1946 for spares and by 1971 stored at Narellan. Later under restoration at the Moorabbin musem near Melbourne.

KLM's scheduled DC-2 inside Ringway's 1938 hangar when operating KLM's schedule from Schiphol. Ringway's new Austin ambulance poses alongside. From the airport archive 40 years ago.

Delivered to Panagra 27 August 1934. Damaged beyond repair at Arajuno, Ecuador, on 31 July 1944. From Douglas 60 years ago.

Built in 1935 for KNILM and delivered to Batavia (Jakarta) as PK-AFL. To Australia in 1942 as VH-ADZ for ANA. Bought by Marshall Airways in 1948 and flown as a 17-seater as VH-CDZ until damaged in u/c collapse at Mascot on 10 November 1957. It was stored at Bankstown from 1958 until loaned to the Camden Museum of Aviation in 1965. Then to an off-airport compound in Narellan in 1971 as seen here, and back to Bankstown in 1972. It's still there today (2017).

VH-CDZ was an KNILM aircraft that came to Australia in World War II and impressed by the USAAF. After the war it was sold to Australian National Airways as VH-ADZ. By 1948 it was owned by Marshall Airways registered as VH-CDZ and used for joy flights from Bankstown airport. It was damaged in a landing accident in 1957 and for a quarter of a century or more it sat in the middle of the airport corroding away. There have been several attempts to restore the aircraft to flight, the last of which started in 2002 at Bankstown by owner Steve Ferris. It was still under restoration by early 2011, with its wings still marked as VH-CDZ. Its status in 2017 is uncertain, but it is assumed to still be hangared at Bankstown.