VH-UPS Beagle A61 Terrier
2
(c/n B.618)
This was the former
G-ASCG which had a number of owners before being purchased by William
G. Wright
of Glasgow, Scotland in April 1968. He moved to Adelaide the
following year and the
Terrier
was re-registered to him as VH-UPS on 8 May 1969.
Four days later ownership was
transferred to
the Royal Australian Navy Gliding Association at Nowra naval base in
NSW as a
glider
tug. It was written off on 4 March 1974 when it
struck power lines and crashed during
take off near
Trundle, NSW with a glider in tow. Both pilots were seriously
injured. The nice
shot above, from
the Geoff Goodall collection, was taken by Norm Weeding at Camden, NSW
in 1972.