02/28/2011. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This Douglas Model DC-3A-456 was ordered by the USAAF as a C-47A-35-DL, s/n 42-23951 and delivered on July 5, 1943. By August 20, 1943, it was in Australia assigned to the Fifth AF. Transferred to the Australian Department of Civil Aviation on July 10, 1944, it was leased to Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. of Sydney, New South Wales. The C-47 was converted to a DC-3C and registered VH-AFA on March 25, 1945.

VH-AFA was sold to Trans Australian Airlines of Melbourne, Victoria on September 11, 1946 and over the next eleven years was named 'Hume', 'Collins' and 'McMillan'. Sold to an Australian aircraft broker on October 31, 1957 and resold to the Nigerian airline West African Airways Corp (WAAA) of Lagos the next day and registered VR-NCO. Nigerian Airways took over WAAA on October 1, 1958 and in 1961, the aircraft was reregistered
SN-AAO.

This DC-3 was next sold to the Irish airline Aer Turas Teoranta of Dublin on February 27, 1964, registered EI-ANK and used for charter flights. The registration was canceled on January 15, 1965 when sold to an individual on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, registered G-ATBE but was never used. The next sale was to Handley Page Ltd. of Radlett, Hertfordshire, England on June 13, 1967.

In 1970, the aircraft moved to Canada when sold to North Coast Air Services of Prince Rupert, British Columbia on May 8, was registered CF-CQT and used for surveying work. In 1974, it was sold to Ilford-Riverton Airways Ltd. of Winnipeg, Manitoba flying passenger and cargo flights in Arctic Canada. The aircraft crashed on March 24, 1975 at Gimli, Manitoba located about 53 mls (85 km) north of Winnipeg. The aircraft was derelict until repaired in March 1979 when it was sold to Northland Aviation of Edmonton, Alberta (renamed Air Manitoba on July 9, 1991) as C-FCQT and used for charter flights.

The next sale was to Northwestern Airlines of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories flying cargo charters. The airline now operates as Buffalo Airways. In September 2003, it was seen engineless in Saskatchewan; its fate is unknown."