VH-KBW  Auster J/5B Autocar                                 (c/n  29400)

                                    

                                         Sometimes the only shot of a particular machine which can be gleaned are those taken after the
                                         aircraft's demise. This photo is from the vast collection of the indubitable Geoff Goodall.    First
                                         registered in December 1951, VH-KBW crashed on take off from Albany, WA airport on 29
                                         November 1958.  Pilot John William Downie was killed.  .  Did the cross on the rudder indicate
                                         it was some type of aerial ambulance?