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Ex Ansett Douglas DC-4 VH-INX had been in storage at Melton Airfield for quite a few years when members of the CNAPG heard that the aircraft was being broken up. Originally it was planned to turn the aircraft into a restraunt, but this idea was never completed and the aircraft sat at the airfield for many years.

Dion Makowski put up the money and the CNAPG acquired the wreckage of the aircraft with the idea of preserving the cockpit section. Other major portions of the aircraft were offered for free to several other aviation museums in Australia and what was left over was disposed of as scrap in a deal with the scrap dealer who was then going to transport the forward section of the aircraft to Clyde North.

Before the cockpit was moved the winter rains started and the cockpit move had to be postphoned untill the ground dried out enough for the truck to get access to it.

Unfortunately the cockpit was stolen before we picked it up.

The forward section of the aircraft which we intended to restore and part of the wing.

 

The nose and underside had been badly gashed when the airfield owner tried to break up the aircraft. We had intended to repair the nose and removed the bottom up to the underside of the floor and restore the cockpit and the first few rows of seats in the passenger cabin.

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