This aircraft was formerly Qantas' VH-EAV delivered in November 1954.  In 1959 it was used
                                      in New Guinea and sold back to de Havillands at Bankstown in March 1959, wherein it was re-
                                      registered VH-DHI.  .  From there it was fitted with floats and went to Fiji Airways as VQ-FAA.
                                     In February 1953 it was sold and returned to Australia as VH-AVR for Aerial Agriculture Pty Ltd
                                     and registered VH-AVR.  It is seen above at Bankstown in this photo from the Wally Scott collec-
                                     tion.  Why it was not in their VH-AA block with the company's other Beavers is not known.  Its
                                     Australian crop-dusting life was short, the aircraft being destroyed at Aberfoyle, (near Armidale),
                                     NSW on 9 July 1964 when a wing broke away in flight. It was the second similar event, following
                                     VH-AAQ which suffered a wing collapse, also at Armidale in September the  previous year. The
                                     DCA investigation resulted in a redesigned wing strut fitting for elderly Beavers built in the 1950s.