VH-RSX (1) Percival P.50
Prince
(c/n P50-38)
Here's a rare shot from the Geoff Goodall collection of
the Royal Aero Club of NSW's Prince.
This was formerly the
RAAF's A90-1, delivered in February 1952. Declared surplus in
1955,
it was placed in
storage until acquired by the RACNSW in January 1958. It
seemed to spend
most of its time in
the back of the Royal Aero Club of NSW hangar as seen in the shot below
from the Jeff
Atkinsion collection (via Nigel Daw). In June 1959 it was
acquired by Sir Reginald
Barnewall (ex Southern
Airlines, Essendon) as the first aircraft for his newly formed
Polynesian
Airlines in Samoa, and was
registered in New Zealand ZK-BMQ. As such it was written
off in
a crash at Faleolo,
Samoa on 4 December 1960.