VH-PRU Avro 643 Cadet II
(c/n 1060)
VH-PRU at Ballarat in January 1964
when it was stored in the Mafair hangar. Image by Geoff
Goodall.
This was the former VH-AEI (A6-25
in the RAAF) before going to Proctors
Rural
Services for
conversion to a crop duster. It was later with Aerial Missions of
Moorabbin and
retired at
Ballarat. Barry Cosson of Stawell owned it for a while and
it then went to Joe Drage's
collection at
Wodonga. Barry Macclean saw it at an air show at Nowra, NSW in
the 1990s
(below) all decked
out in its former RAAF livery, or a reasonable facsimile
thereof. In 1998
it was sold to Kermit
Weeks and is now on display at
the Fantasy of Flight Museum,
Polk City,
Florida,
registered N643AV (and displaying A6-25 of course).