Now they were the days.
We ordered a -4BRA could get it it on the AOC but couldn't get it past customs into the country, it was that two airline policy wot done it.
You could fly around all day in private or aerial work but you weren't allowed to operate it in charter.
The good ole DCA had a pair of them for "navaid calibration"
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And then when they were way past their use by date a certain enterprising used aircraft salesman of no fixed percentage (who went on to bigger things
in the airline business) painted one up and I think it was VH-CAO and sold it to some gormless hopeful bizjet owner for a motza. Can't remember his, the owners, name nor heard the conversations that must have resulted when he tried to operate it.
There was then as now one born every minute.
