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Brian Abraham
26th May 2011, 06:41
Anyone with info on whats happened to this aircraft. Details on the web say damaged in a forced landing 11.10.85 No further info or elaboration available. Rego later went to a B200 used for RAAF training at Sale.
Frank Arouet
27th May 2011, 04:40
Check your PM's.
Jabawocky
27th May 2011, 07:08
Did you bend it Frank? :E :=
And here we are thinking you is a passionate aviation lover!
J:}
Ejector
28th May 2011, 14:11
Care to share?
Captain Dart
28th May 2011, 22:18
While we're here does anyone know what happened to Auster Mk III -BYJ? Apparently 'damaged in a storm' and the rego reallocated to a Yak ,but I'd love to know if it still exists; Jack Ellis sent me solo in it at Moorooduc many many moons ago.
Frank Arouet
30th May 2011, 04:59
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr13/scud_2008/EC_2A11_27VHBYJ.jpg
Frank Arouet
30th May 2011, 05:10
VH BYJ registered 21/05/54 to 16/08/79. originally A11-27 S/N 333.
Blew over 1978. Purchased 1998 by John Carr. Can't find any more sorry.
I would suggest a start at Murwillumbah. PM me if you are serious enough to make phone calls. I have a few numbers.
Wunwing
30th May 2011, 07:11
John sold it a couple of years ago in a partially restored state.
Wunwing
2 Dogs
30th May 2011, 09:15
Jack Ellis sent me solo in it at Moorooduc many many moons ago. ..... me too ! but at Tyabb, before the move. 1967, I think.
Frank Arouet
30th May 2011, 10:36
That was Captain Dart. I owned one of the KB series of J1B Aiglets.
Captain Dart
30th May 2011, 22:33
Thanks Frank and Wunwing. When I flew BYJ in the mid seventies it was all-over yellow and stripped of lighting/electrics. A bit 'doggy' but the only thing a high school kid could afford to fly once or twice a month. Later repainted in a rather ghastly maroon, yellow and white scheme.
From Moorooduc in those times I also remember Austers various, a 'Darter Commander' (stolen by joyriders and fatally crashed on the field) a Cessna and a thing called a Meta-Sokol. And of course 'Cranky Jack'!
Rawdyn
3rd May 2012, 09:34
I located this plane in 2009. I have sent another email to get an update on it and will report in due course.
This is her in about 1955. My father was learning to fly while at Duntroon.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XA9hX4U3B6c/VSn71xWbG1I/AAAAAAAAFUQ/jC7DmaxI5yk/w800-h533-no/A11-27_VH-BYJ__C_1955_screen.jpg