| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | VH-FBD |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Commonwealth CA-6 Wackett |
| Aircraft Version: | Kingsford Smith KS-3 Cropmaster |
| Manufacturers: | Commonwealth / Kingsford Smith |
| C/n (msn): | 410 |
| Operator Titles: | Airwork |
| Location | |
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| Location: | Not known |
| Region / Country: | Western Australia, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo from: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 92434 |
| Photo Comment |
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A rare colour photograph of a Kingsford Smith KS-3 at work, supplied by Bill Boulden the chief pilot of Airwork. Only a handful of KS-3s were built using components from CAC Wackett trainers including the Warner Scarab engine. VH-FBD crashed on November 27, 1961 at Borden, Western Australia. Concerns over the Wackett's glued wooden wing resulted in the grounding of it, the remaining KS-3s and several other types including Avro Ansons. The continued development of the Wackett as a cropduster resulted in the Yeoman YA-1 Cropmaster with a metal wing. This photo was added on 9 October 2018, and has since been viewed 493 times. |