VH-TYF Beech A23A Musketeer Custom
III
(c/n M-1094)
Beech agents Hawker de Havilland registered VH-TYF in March
1968. David Carter saw it at
Bankstown (above) on October 14, 1970 looking brand new. It may
be that there was a long gap
between
being registered and actually being assembled and flown for a
buyer. Whatever the story,
–TYF was not
long for Australia and was cancelled in July 1972 as sold in Fiji,
where it became
DQ-FBT.
It returned to Australia and was registered to Navair,
Bankstown, in July 1974.
–TYF was still
current in November 2016 and believed based at Camden. It has not
been a straight-
forward
journey, however, and the aircraft was withdrawn from use from January
1985 to September
1986 (corrosion was a
problem with Musketeers) and having its registration being briefly
revoked by
authorities in 2006.