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Old 13th Nov 2012, 11:54
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glen beard
 
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I will stand corrected if i am wrong,but i believe VH-BEB PA31- 41 was first Navajo in Australia.Was Bib Stillwell's when he owned Civil Flying Services and a great friend of mine _ the late Alex McDonald used to fly it.Alex was W.A. manager of CFS when they were Piper distributors for Australia circa late sixties,early seventies.Ansett General Aviation were appointed national distributors early seventies and Fred Blake Piper Aircraft Sales and Cliff Brown's Piper West were dealers.I worked for Cliff as his parts manager for 15 odd years and we sold heaps to RFDS and other operators from 74ish until the 1980's. VH-BEB is still operating at JT.Great aircraft when operated in their given capacity & range

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