| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | VH-BYM |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Taylorcraft Plus D |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Taylorcraft D/E/F/G/J Auster Mk1/2/3/4/5 |
| Aircraft Version: | Taylorcraft J Auster Mk5D Ajax |
| C/n (msn): | 1772 |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Langwell StationMap |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Airport Codes: | None |
| Photo Date: | 4 October 2009 |
| Photo by: | Phil Vabre |
| Photo ID: | 35432 |
| Photo Comment |
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Even the redoubtable Auster gets stuck in sand! Awaiting a push out after breakfast. Built to wartime RAF order as Auster Mk 5, TW433, with a Lycoming O-290: first flight 12 Sept 45. Used by Auster for trials post-war 1947-48. SOR Apr 53 & sold the following year to Australia where it became the one and only Mk 5D Ajax, fitted with an in-line Gipsy Major & other civil mods. SOR 1971 - later rebuilt with an O-320 and returned to Register Feb 1983. Damaged by fire in Dec 2004 but rebuilt and looking good! This photo is copyright © Phil Vabre, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 27 January 2018, and has since been viewed 176 times. |