VH-IAL  Auster J/5 Adventurer                        (c/n  2882)

                               

                                  This plain Autocrat (Adventurer, in Australia) was first imported as VH-KSA through the Kingsford
                                  Smith dealership.  It was re-registered VH-IAL in 1962 and written off when it hit power lines at Zara
                                  Station (near Deniliquin, NSW) in December 1965.  Greg Banfield's shot, above, was taken at Banks-
                                  town on 30 December 1962, while in Geoff Goodall's view of the remains, below, in a hangar at Coota-
                                  mundra in December 1966 it had titling stating "Country Life Newspaper".