VH-AGY Avro 652A Anson 1
Rare photograph of an Anson registered
VH-AGY, from the Geoff Goodall collection. Rare, since
this registration was not taken up. i.e. a CofA was not issued
under this rego. (-AGY was eventually
re-allocated to
a Tiger Moth). Anyway, this
-AGY was ex EG425 and was originally purchased from
disposals at RAAF Station Ballarat, Vic by an Adelaide partnership of
L. Burgess and H. Rosenhain.
They
commenced work on its civil conversion at the RAAF Station and the
registration VH-AGY
was allocated by
DCA. The duo planned to use it on charter work in
Adelaide but, unable to find
any
worthwhile business in South Australia, they sold it for 400 pounds to
Tradair, who ferried it to
Mascot
where all 5 of Tradair's Ansons were being converted to civilian
freighters. EG425 then
emerged
with a CofA as VH-BJN on 27
November 1947.