VH-ACA Percival P.10 Vega
Gull
(c/n K98)
Rare shot from the Neil Follett collection
of a Vega Gull at Essendon, circa 1940. This aircraft
was delivered new to Major The Hon. Richard
G. Casey (later to become Governor-General of
Australia) in April 1938. With the onset of WW II
VH-ACA was impressed into service with
the
RAAF as A32-2 and allotted to the Communications Flight at
Laverton. It was restored to
the civil register
on 24 December 1946. Owner Peter J. Loneragan forced landed it
at Hill End,
NSW on 18 April1949 damaging a
wing. Upon being repaired it was re-registered VH-BQA