CAC-17 Mustang
Just over a decade later these Mustangs were purchased as is by Stanley Booker of Stan's Airplane Sales, Fresno California, who engaged Tony Schwerdt of Adelaide to remove them. Tony was to keep one himself, and chose the prototype Australian built Mustang A68-1 which his team made air-
worthy under primitive conditions. The other five were dismantled and shipped to the US . Tony flew A68-1 out to Coober Pedy and then on to Parafield with the gear in the fixed down position,but DCA at that time had a firm policy restricting ex-military combat aircraft flying as civil machines, although they did allocate the registration VH-EMQ (he wanted VH-EMU but that was already allocated to a Cherokee) for it. Schwerdt was taken to court by DCA for his unauthorized ferry flight out of Emu.