VT-TAU  Airspeed A.S.65 Consul                                 (c/n 5175)

                                 

                                      Built as Airspeed Oxford EB974, this machine was converted to Consul standard in 1947 as
                                     G-AJWY and registered to Airspeed Ltd.    It was sold in Tanganyika as VR-TAU in March
                                     1948 to United Air Services Ltd of Dar-es-Salaam.    After two years' service it was purchased
                                     by W.A. Rollason Ltd of Croydon and reverted back to G-AJWY.   In September 1950 it was
                                     sold abroad again, to Jordan as TJ-ABA  and registered to Air Jordan in Amman.       A scant
                                     month later, on 31 October 1950, it crashed whilst taking off from Jerusalem-Atarot Airport
                                     for reasons unknown. The six occupants (pilot and five passengers) were rescued, but TJ-ABA
                                     was written off.