Bought by Douglas Aircraft Company 13 December, 1945 and converted to DC-4, conversion No. 24. Bought by Delta Airlines 2April, 1946 registered as N37475. Bought by Pacific Northern Airlines 27 February, 1953. Bought by Overseas National Airways in 1957, registered as N410NA, named "Loma D". Sold to Witwatersrand Native Labour Association of Rhodesia (WENELA) and registered ZS-CLN in 1960. Reregistered VP-YST March 1961, reregistered September 1968 as A2-ZER. Crashed two minutes after take-off from Francistown, Botswana 4 April, 1974, due to contaminated fuel. 78 of 84 killed.


The story of Wenela can be read on the South African Airways Museum Society website here