CallAir A9 VH-MPG

[Pete Fardell]

Hello all,
I build small scale flying models, usually rubber powered. At the moment I'm particularly interested in this CallAir A9, registered VH-MPG in this striking"Red Baron" paint scheme. In the 1980s it was used as an ad banner tower in these colours, based I think at Jankadot, and then as a glider tug at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. I got this info here: IMCO CALLAIR A-9 & B-1 IN AUSTRALIA (http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/callair/callair.htm)
I've found four photos of it on the internet in the Red Baron scheme, but am really just wondering if anyone knows of or has any more as I have no views of the top of the left wing or the underside of the right, so don't yet have quite enough info to make the model.
Thanks in advance!
Pete

[tail wheel]

Have you thought of writing to the current owner?

RegoSearch | VH-MPG Australian Aircraft Registration Details (http://www.regosearch.com/aircraft/au/MPG)

https://www.casa.gov.au/aircraft-register?search_api_views_fulltext=&vh=MPG&field_ar_serial=&=Search

[gerry111]

How about simply owning a full scale Callair A9A instead?

RAAF Richmond Gliding Club's long serving Callair, VH-MPL sadly no longer flies. Surely it's for sale somewhere?

As an aeromodeller, Pete Fardell, you'll know that if you provide sufficient propulsion anything gets to fly. Even with lacky bands..

[Pete Fardell]

Good idea to contact the current owner. Thanks!
(and I'd love to own a real one, but will stick to small balsa versions for now!)

[john_tullamarine]

RAAF Richmond Gliding Club's long serving Callair, VH-MPL

That takes me back to the early 70s .. I was co-opted into doing some towing at short notice. As I recall the endorsement (Kerry M ?, one of the Herc pilots, watching from the ground) was late Friday afternoon, after work, with an uncomfortably low cloud base ... and then into it on Saturday morning .. great fun coming in over the main road for, shall we say, an abbreviated final onto 10 (?). Flew it off and on for a while prior to heading down to Melbourne for work.

Dreadful aircraft with full flap .. the ailerons might just as well not have been there at all.. with all turns on rudder ... but did it get up and go ..

[jas24zzk]

A friend of mine has pics of the left wing upper.
Not sure i am allowed to share them off his facebook tho.

If it helps, the left was the same as the right.

Out of interest, it was glider towing from Euroa when it came east

[bolthead]

Well it definitely wasn't designed to be pretty. But what it was designed for, I reckon it did really well.
I got a few hours in it, and its sisters, at Cunderdin WA in the eighties.

[Pete Fardell]

A friend of mine has pics of the left wing upper.
Not sure i am allowed to share them off his facebook tho.

If it helps, the left was the same as the right.

Out of interest, it was glider towing from Euroa when it came east

That's very useful info, thanks! (Don't know if you can ask your friend if he minds sharing his pics? I'd be very grateful, but no worries if not.)

[catseye]

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