As with other Australian National Airlines (ANA) plane’s, this plane’s name ended in ‘ana’.
This Douglas Airliner, considered a giant in 1936, could carry 14 passengers. Bungana dwarfed a D.H. Gipsy Moth parked alongside it at the Maylands Aerodrome in 1937.
Bungana flew at 210 miles per hour and inaugurated a new Perth-Adelaide service on a 1.5 day timetable.
See our Bungana Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
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