VH-AVQ
(1) Avro 652A
Anson 1
This
is a rare shot of the first VH-AVQ. Bankstown, circa 1946. It was
an ex-RAF/RAAF Anson
serialed W2239. It was destroyed in a
crash at Port Moresby, New Guinea in 1947. This shot
shows it immediately after it had been
civilianized and acquired by Australian Air Traders. As in the
United States,
immediately after WW II almost anyone with a pilot's license and a few
bucks could
pick up an aircraft and commence some
sort of commerce with it.