VH-AGP and VH-AGS in formation off Sydney's Manly Beach. This rare formation photo was taken in the Hudson's twilight years with Adastra and the survey company started 1974 with none in service. At the time of upload, VH-AGP is owned by the Australian War Memorial and AGS is maintained in an airworthy state at Temora registered as VH-KOY. Photo courtesy of Australian Flying magazine.

Withdrawn from use in 1960. Used as a gate guardian for Civil Flying Services until removed by the Moorabbin Air Museum. Fell into disrepair and engine taken for use in a Cessna C34. -AGP last reported as a flying restoration project using a metal wing from a Yeoman Cropmaster. The YA-1 Cropmaster was a development of the Wackett in which the suspect glued wooden structures of the Wackett trainer were replaced with metal

Visiting at the Aldinga pilots fly-in at Gawler, SA

A frequent visitor to Hunt Field

Touching down at Old Noarlunga

Built as USAAF A-28 41-23175 and delivered to Australia as A16-105 in December 1941. Stored from November 1945. To East-West Airlines as VH-EWB in December 1950. Converted to survey aircraft in 1957, becoming VH-EWS and VH-SMO in October 1962. Later operated by Adasta Aerial Surveys and re-registered VH-AGP in May 1967. Withdrawn in November 1971. After storage it joined the Malcolm Long Collection painted as "A16-123" and coded 'FX-F' of 6 Squadron RAAF. Serial later corrected to A16-105.

Ex VH-SMO, VH-AGP was reregistered in June 1966, bring it into the same block as other Adastra aircraft. In 1976 it became part of the warbird movement, painted in RAAF colours as A16-123 although it had been A16-105. Over the next 40 years in remained unregistered, the only flying being ferried from aviation museum to aviation museum until acquired by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Re-registered VH-EDA in 1993. It had been A85-434 in RAAF service

An ex Adastra aerial survey aircraft. In 1976 it was painted as A16-123 although in RAAF service it had been A16-105. A plan to change the registration to VH-FXF, to match the codes, never happened. After the picture was taken, it flew only a handful of times, mainly ferry flights from museum to museum. The last flight was in 1985 to Wangaratta. In 2001 the Australian War Memorial bought the aircraft and restored it for static display as A16-105.