VH-BJB Avro 643
Cadet
II
(c/n 1069)
This Cadet, one of some 17 civilianized after WW II, was
photographed at Bankstown, NSW
in 1954. It was built
for the
RAAF as A6-34. Somewhere around 1951 it received a Wackett
Trainer style canopy,
although that had disappeared when it became a single-seat agricultural
machine as seen in Neil
Follett's shot (below) taken at Moorabbin in 1960..
Its conversion for
ag work occurred in the
late 1950s and came
to grief during an agricultural
sortie at Woordoo,
Victoria in November
1961. The wreckage was
stored for forty years and
it re-emerged at
Shepparton, Victoria in
2001 as VH-RUO. It
was retired to the RAAF Museum at
Pt. Cook
in March 2009 and will
become part of the static display.
Hopefully Phil Vabre's head-on
shot of it at
that venue (foot of page) can soon be augmented by a side image!.
