Guys now you've got me stonkered, I was around in them days and there was VH-TOM and VH-BBJ, Tom the Cheap and Bell Bros (Harry Baker? Bells came to there via Austers Cessna and yes Meta Sokol etc....)respectively and we couldn't get ours in to the country for charter use due Customs and that really dumb two airline policy, despite running all over MMAs DC3s and F27s with our Navajos and C402's.
The piccie of VH-TOM has me buffaloed, are you sure that is Perth Airport as the sawtooth industrial buildings to the rear dont look like anything I remember at Perth Airport?? the building in the foreground is familiar being standard DCA issue.??
Had a look at the Ad Astral website and Barclay Archbold = VH-TOM gets a mention, anybody know what happened to him?