VH-AEG Avro 643 Cadet II
(c/n 854)
To say that photographs of VH-AEG are rare is
an understatement. and I am indebted, therefore,
to Geoff
Goodall who unearthed the air-to-air one above from some ancient
obscure publication.
This image
originally came from the archives of the Royal Newcastle Aero Club.
The nice shot
of it below as
it was as A6-5 in the RAAF is courtesy of the John Oxley Library, State
Library of
Queensland. This appears to have been taken at Archerfield in the
early 1940s. The Cadet was
civilianized in May 1945 (even before VJ Day), and its sole owner was
the RNAC. It was destroy-
ed when it
spun in some 12 miles NE of Kempsey, NSW on 11 November 1951 whilst
practicing
aerobatics. Both instructor and pupil were
killed.