VH-KSJ Auster J/5
Adventurer
(c/n 2808)
Externally the four seat Adventurer was
indistinguishable from the its early three-seat sister craft,
the
Autocrat. CASA merely lists the VH-KS series as
Auster J/5s. I originally called them
all Autocrats, but evidently the 2800 series c/ns were, in fact,
Adventurers. - KSJ is seen above
at Orange, NSW
in October 1962 in this photo by Bob Neate (via Geoff
Goodall). It was re-
registered
VH-WAY two months after this shot was taken (1 December 1962) and then
was
off
the register in the 1970s. Restored in 1980, it
became VH-RJP and is still
currently registered
under
that
identity.