VH-KAB Auster J/1B Aiglet
(c/n 2644)
Mr. Goodall has sent me a plethora of
pictures of VH-KAB. I'll display a few of them. Seen
above at Parafield, Adelaide, is the aircraft as it finished the 1964
R.M. Ansett Air Race in
March
1964. At this time, despite having come into the country in 1950,
it was still resplendent
in original
Auster livery. By the time Geoff sighted it at Jandakot in 1970
it had a rather plain,
almost
drab appearance (immediately below). This had changed by
early 1977 into a more
attractive orange and white checkerboard tail scheme seen in the lower
shot, taken at Serpentine,
WA in
March of that year. VH-KAB is still on the register and is
still resident in West Aussie.