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heres another one of the goose.
Its registration was ZK ENY.Operated at the time by a company called canterbury planes. I was there the day those photos were taken. It had just arrived direct from NZ. It landed and they removed the ferry tanks, installed the seats and then they took a bunch of people for a ride (including myself!) i remember doing some touch and go's out on the bay in it, exciting stuff for a little kid!
The only name i can associate with it was Brett Young an EX RNZAF chap who used to fly regularly at berwick at the time. i beleive the plan was to put it on the register and do joy rides somewhere around the great barrier reef. It stayed a casey briefly then went to moorabbin where it underwent extensive maintenance at schutts. ( i beleive it had a fair bit of corrosion in the hull) and was briefly placed on the australian register as VH ENY. The joyriding plans didnt eventuate and the aircraft was sold off some where in the pacific (or the phillipines??) and left the country. i dont know where it is now.
Its registration was ZK ENY.Operated at the time by a company called canterbury planes. I was there the day those photos were taken. It had just arrived direct from NZ. It landed and they removed the ferry tanks, installed the seats and then they took a bunch of people for a ride (including myself!) i remember doing some touch and go's out on the bay in it, exciting stuff for a little kid!
The only name i can associate with it was Brett Young an EX RNZAF chap who used to fly regularly at berwick at the time. i beleive the plan was to put it on the register and do joy rides somewhere around the great barrier reef. It stayed a casey briefly then went to moorabbin where it underwent extensive maintenance at schutts. ( i beleive it had a fair bit of corrosion in the hull) and was briefly placed on the australian register as VH ENY. The joyriding plans didnt eventuate and the aircraft was sold off some where in the pacific (or the phillipines??) and left the country. i dont know where it is now.
here is a another good photo of ATJ i just found on the NET (courtesy of Wal Nelowkin). I think just about all the tigers based at berwick over the years ended up on their backs
I beleive Charlie (Alberts nephew) was responsible for what happened to ATJ in the photo above. VH FAH got blown over and VH TIG which was online at group air got busted a few times too!
the Fairey Firefly in the background was saved from the scrappers By Col Hatfield around 1968. it was later sold to the UK and subsequently ended up in the US where it is being restored to airworthy condition.
I beleive Charlie (Alberts nephew) was responsible for what happened to ATJ in the photo above. VH FAH got blown over and VH TIG which was online at group air got busted a few times too!the Fairey Firefly in the background was saved from the scrappers By Col Hatfield around 1968. it was later sold to the UK and subsequently ended up in the US where it is being restored to airworthy condition.
Good to see IRQ is still going! i went solo in that aircraft. PFK and WXP were sold to the RVAC and re registered. WXP was the 150 that ended up in someones back yard at moorabbin not so long ago
. RAD was repainted and was still flying a few years ago when i last saw it at YMMB.
. RAD was repainted and was still flying a few years ago when i last saw it at YMMB.
S & S, thanks for the info on the Goose. Having established the identity, I can confirm that it actually went to Thailand, and is currently under restoration in Germany. 
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I know the guy that used to own ELA. I remember he put it on Ebay and some guy in the US was trying to convince him that it wasn't the Darter model. He didn't get any takers :-(
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Probably. A Fly-Away Weekend....? Club photos, not mine. The other ones remind me of Keppel
(Slept on the beach off the end of the strip, after midnight, and after the bonfire went out, one New Years Day morning, but wasn't alone - back in my Milroy/Countryair period.)
(p.s. Also under a Cherokee 6 at Orchid Beach on another New Years Day morning, - but I was alone -, however the other guy in the 6 wasn't.
My goal is still the same, - to see the sun come up out of the Pacific, on New Years Day, from a different Pacific island. This year I took off before sunrise and was east of Fraser before the first rays hit. Air Pacific used to have a slogan, Your Island in the Sky, - that was mine this year.)
(Slept on the beach off the end of the strip, after midnight, and after the bonfire went out, one New Years Day morning, but wasn't alone - back in my Milroy/Countryair period.)
(p.s. Also under a Cherokee 6 at Orchid Beach on another New Years Day morning, - but I was alone -, however the other guy in the 6 wasn't.
My goal is still the same, - to see the sun come up out of the Pacific, on New Years Day, from a different Pacific island. This year I took off before sunrise and was east of Fraser before the first rays hit. Air Pacific used to have a slogan, Your Island in the Sky, - that was mine this year.)
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Frigatebird,
One from the other Maryborough........
I also spent a while up in Rocky flying for Country Dare in '79 sometimes giving the pax I flew into Keppel in the Islander a somewhat literal meaning to the TAA slogan of those days about "Getting Wrecked on Great Keppel".
I took this (rather beat up) photo at MYB in about 1974. For those wondering - the Moris-esna was used by the "Firies" there.
Although I took a fair few photos in those days, for some reason I never managed any of Country Air's SYU, TIP, MCO, MCX and the twin PA-24's- MCW and MCY - if anyone has any from around that time, I would love to see them.