VH-AHW (2) AESL Airtourer Super
150
(c/n A543
Ferried across the Tasman Sea as
ZK-DAB, this newly built Airtourer arrived in Australia in Dec-
ember 1969. It was cancelled from the New Zealand register in February
1970, although it would
be seven months
before it appeared on the Australian register just before the Aviat 70
air show
staged at Bankstown airport on September 20. David Carter
photographed VH-AHW in May
1976
when it was part of the Royal Queensland Aero Club fleet at Archerfield
airport. The aircraft
was lost in tragic circumstances on September 3, 1989, when the pilot,
the sole occupant, suffered
a fatal heart
attack on approach to South Grafton airport, sending VH-AHW plunging
into the
Clarence
River.