VH-GGB Percival P.34A Proctor
III (c/n
H.404)
This ex-RAF Proctor (LZ597) was
civilianized as G-ANGB and exported to Australia in 1956
becoming VH-GGB. It was photographed
here at Moorabbin that same year. The enterprise
name of 'Australian Air Charterers' seems a little
stilted. I would have named it 'Australian Air
Charters', but possibly that name
had already been registered. It was withdrawn from use at
Parafield, Adelaide's airport, in 1965, following
the refusal of the DCA to grant Cs of A to wood
bonded aircraft. Below are two nice shots from
the Barrie Colledge collection, the lower one
(at Essendon, circa 1958) showing it in
a somewhat 'livened up' livery. Finally, it moved to
South Australia where Geoff
Goodall caught it one day in 1964 at Parafield (last image).