ADF Aircraft Serial Numbers
RAAF A4 Avro Anson

RAAF.SerialRAF SerialFate
A4-1K6212Ex K6212 (DC). 1AD 20.11.36. 21 Sqdn 9.12.36. Landed undercarriage up Laverton Vic 20.4.38. Collided A4-7 on TO, Currie, King I 23.8.38. 1AD 28.9.38. 21 Sqdn 2.12.38 ('R' in 1940) Sank into boggy ground taxiing Benalla Vic 16.8.39. ATS 1SFTS 2.5.40. Dam in heavy landing Pt Cook, Vic 3.12.40. 1AD 31.3.41. 4SFTS 1.4.41. FL Geraldton 4.4.41. McRobertson Miller for overhaul 4.6.41. ANA Maylands WA 13.9.41. 4SFTS 3.8.42. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 8.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48.
A4-2K6213Ex K6213. 1AD 16.12.36. P&C Flt 19.3.37. Renamed C&S Flt 8.6.37. Eng trble & through fence Box Hill NSW 23.4.38. 2AD 12.5.38. 2SFTS 5.8.40. 3SFTS 4.4.41. 1SFTS 12.4.42. 1AOS 28.7.42. 2AP 2.10.44. 3AD 11.12.44. APL Archerfield SA 14.3.45. 3CRD 5.7.45. Approved to scr 21.11.45.
A4-3K6214Ex K6214. 1AD 16.12.36. 22 Sqdn 23.2.37. FL Richmond NSW 1.4.38. 1AD 22.11.38. RAAF Pearce WA for 25 Sqdn 4.4.39. ATS 1SFTS 2.5.40. FL fuel shortage Pt Cook Vic 13.6.40. 1AD 31.3.41. 4SFTS 1.4.41. Glue failure identified 25.9.44. Approved to scr 20.10.44.
A4-4K6215Ex K6215 (DC). 1AD(ARS) 5.1.37. 23 Sqdn 30.6.37. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 23.12.38. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. Missing on a flight from Pearce to CFS Camden NSW 14.5.40. Found Mt Torbreck near Wangaratta Vic 24.1.41. The aircraft struck near the summit of Mt Torbreck, VIC in foggy weather. The aircraft failed to clear the top of the mountain by only 200ft. Crew; F/O Anthony Ashby Daniel 243 CPL Ivan Lapen Stowdor 2472 CPL Francis Ettiene Hyland 3515 CPL Herman Fred Sass 2560.WOC approved 5.12.40.
A4-5K6216Ex K6216 (DC). 1AD(ARS) 5.1.37. 4 Sqdn 8.7.37. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. Struck post taxiing 31.8.39. 1FTS for GRS 30.4.40. 1AOS 23.6.40. Undercarriage collapse taxiing Cootamundra NSW 27.6.40. 1ANS 15.11.40. (5 K). Crashed at Glenbrook, NSW on a medical flight from Parkes to Mascot 28.1.41. The plaque placed near the accident site reads "On 28 Jan 41 an Avro Anson aircraft, No A4-5 of No1 Air Navigation School, RAAF Parkes, crashed in this area whilst en route from Parkes to Mascot on a Medical Evacuation flight. All five airmen were killed." Crew; P/O J.I. Newman (Pilot), F/O Henry Theodore Skillman 625 (Nav), AC C.R. Tysoc (Wireless Op), S/L James Manning Rainbow (Medical Officer), P/O Bailey Middlebrook Sawyer 1704 (patient). Approved scr 26.2.41.
A4-6K6217Ex K6217. 1AD 5.1.37. 22 Sqdn 14.4.37. Touched wingtips in formation 6.4.38. Landed undercarriage up Richmond NSW 27.12.38. 1 Sqdn 29.8.39. ATS 1 SFTS 29.3.40. GRS. ITS 1SFTS 27.6.40. Undercarriage collapse on landing Cressy Vic 22.1.41. 1AD 27.5.41. 6SFTS 19.9.41. Collided in flight with A4-31 Mallala SA 13.2.42. LAC Stanley Livingstone McFarlane (student pilot) and LAC Charles Tilley Collett Shopee (student pilot) killed in this aircraft. Approved to scr 12.3.42.
A4-7K6218Ex K6218. 1AD 5.1.37. 21 Sqdn 24.4.37. Collided with A4-1 Currie, King I. 23.8.38. 1AD 28.9.38. 1 Sqdn 24.10.39. CFS 29.5.40. 1 AOS 19.7.40. Butler Air Transport o'haul 6.12.41. 2AD 27.4.42. 1 CF 18.5.42. Ansett Workshops 14.6.43. 1AD 27.1.44. 6SFTS 28.1.44. Storage 29.1.45. Strength 9.2.45. Storage 4.6.45. SHQ Mallala SA for disposal 3.7.47. DAP 30.7.47. Action complete 18.12.47.
A4-8K6219Ex K6219. 1AD 5.1.37. 22 Sqdn 24.3.37. FL Richmond NSW (Engine failure) 17.8.37. Landed undercarriage up Richmond 28.7.38. Cr on the banks of South Creek, McGrath's Hill near Windsor NSW 16.10.38 after the pilot executed a series of planned power dives, which saw one of the aircraft's wings break off. The pilot, AirCDT John Fletcher, 19 years old, was the sole occupant. SOC 31.1.39.
A4-9K6220Ex K6220. 1AD 5.1.37. 21 Sqdn 21.4.37. Damaged in strong wind at Laverton Vic 21.9.37. Exch with 2 Sqdn for N4946 18.4.40. ITS 1SFTS 8.7.40. 1AD 20.5.41. 1SFTS 26.8.41. 2AOS 28.12.41. 1WAGS 25.11.43. 2AOS 20.12.43. Cat F at 2AOS awaiting o'haul 15.2.45. Approved for conv to Inst AF No 15 6.2.45. Approved to scr 21.3.46.
A4-10K6221Ex K6221. 1AD 5.1.37. 22 Sqdn 30.4.37. Landed undercarriage up Inverell NSW 20.11.37. 2AD 13.12.37. 22 Sqdn 5.12.38. 1 Sqdn 29.8.39. 1SFTS 30.4.40. Damaged in attempted t/o with controls locked 1.9.40. 3SFTS 10.11.40. Struck by Port wheel of W1599 9.5.41. 1SFTS 6.4.42. 1AOS 17.8.42. Turret broke off in flight 9.8.42. Marshall Airways for o'haul 19.10.42. Butler Air Transport ??. 2AP 10.4.43. GRS 14.6.43. Storage 26.2.45. DAP 16.10.47. Action complete 12.12.47.
A4-11K6222Ex K6222. 1AD 5.1.37. 21 Sqdn 29.4.37. Dam by wind Whitemark Flinders I 14.3.48. Cr into Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip Bay near Point Ormond, Elwood, Vic, in bad visibility during a training flight 2.5.39. P/O Ronald Davies, Cpl Gordon Peake and AC1 John Quinn. killed. Approved to scr 26.7.39. Engines became Instr CH4.
A4-12K6223Ex K6223. 1AD 5.1.37. 2 Sqdn 14.11.38. RAAF Pearce for 25 Sqdn 5.4.39. 1AD 1.6.40. 1SFTS 27.8.40. Eng Failure on t/o and ran into deep drain Pt Cook 14.1.41. 1AD 28.10.41. 6SFTS 1.11.41. Cr Mallala SA and dam tail unit 3.7.43. Ansett Essendon 8.5.44. Approved to scr 22.11.44.
A4-13K8792Ex K8792. 1AD 11.8.37. Storage 5.9.37. FTS 22.9.37. 23 Sqdn 26.11.37. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 23.12.38. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. 1SFTS via 1AD 9.5.40. 4SFTS 25.4.41. FL Pearce WA 12.2.42. Undercarriage collapse on t/o Geraldton 1.3.42. ANA Maylands 5.7.43. 4SFTS 13.3.44. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.8.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 28.2.47.
A4-14K8793Ex K8793. 1AD 11.8.37. Storage 5.9.37. 23 Sqdn 13.9.37. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 23.12.38. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. 1SFTS 9.4.40. Dam in windstorm Pt Cook 7.6.40. 1AD 21.7.40. 1SFTS 9.4.41. Ansett Airways (o'haul) 21.8.41. 1SFTS 30.10.41. 6SFTS 1.11.41. 3CU 22.3.44. 2AP 24.4.44. 6SFTS reserve 4.1.45. 67 Sqdn 8.1.45. 6SFTS storage 24.1.45. Strength 9.2.45. Storage 21.5.45. SHQ Mallala 3.7.46. Auth WO 16.5.47. DAP 30.5.47. Action complete 18.12.47.
A4-15K8794Ex K8794. 1AD 11.8.37. 1AD storage 5.9.37. 21 Sqdn 21.10.37. Dropped into a ditch during forced landing on King I and destroyed by ensuing fire 11.9.38. WO approved 20.9.38. Engines became Inst CH3.
A4-16K8795Ex K8795. 1AD 11.8.37. Storage 5.9.37. 21 Sqdn 27.10.37. Collision with A4-1 no damage 31.7.38. FL King I. 11.9.38. GRS 15.5.40. 1SFTS 27.6.40. FL near Werribee, Vic 6.3.41. 4SFTS 30.3.41. Dam in strong wind 4.4.41. FL Caron WA 20.4.41. ANA Maylands 7.11.42. 4SFTS 17.5.43. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU storage 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48.
A4-17K8796Ex K8796. 1AD 11.8.37. Storage 5.9.37. 21 Sqdn 22.9.37. Dam by wind Whitemark, Flinders I. 22.2.38. Eng Fail. on t/o/ Laverton Vic 14.8.38. 1AD 15.8.38. 21 Sqdn 5.9.38. Hit hangar landing Laverton 22.5.39. 1AD 22.5.39. 1 Sqdn 23.9.39. Cr on landing Pats (or Pate) River, Tas. 20.12.39. Conv to Instr Airframe No1 19.6.40. App to scr 11.7.40.
A4-18K8797Ex K8797. 2AD 17.8.37. 4 Sqdn 30.9.37. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. Taxied into Seagull A2-1 Richmond NSW 3.2.39. CFS 29.5.40. 1AOS 12.7.40. 1ANS 6.11.40. 2AD 23.8.41. Airflite P/L ?? 1.5.42. Ansett ?? 31.7.42. 2AP 1.7.43. 6SFTS 19.7.43. Storage 29.1.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 30.5.47. SHQ Mallala SA 3.7.47. Action complete 18.12.47.
A4-19K8798Ex K8798. 2AD 13.9.37. 4 Sqdn 8.10.37. Landed undercarriage up Richmond BSW 19.1.38. Ditto 5.12.38. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. FL Mascot AD NSW with oil system failure 17.7.39. Struck A4-31 in formation Richmond NSW 28.11.39. 1SFTS 29.3.40. 4SFTS 30.3.41. HQ RAAF Pearce for o'haul 31.5.41. 4SFTS 9.2.42. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU storage 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48.
A4-20K8799Ex K8799. 2AD 13.9.37 4 Sqdn 8.10.37. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. CFS 29.3.40. 1AD 30.3.41. 2AOS 5.4.41. 1AD 29.4.41. 2AOS 17.5.41. 1AD 29.7.41. 2AOS 12.10.41. Taxied into mobile refuelling unit Mt Gambier SA 6.3.42. 1AOS 13.12.43. Cr at Newrybar,10m N of Ballina NSW 22.5.44. Lt Allan Shackell (pilot) F/O Trevor Woodgate (navigator), W/O Edmund Ahern, and SGT Gordon Hill (trainee navigator) killed. 3CRD 15.6.44. Approved to scr 26.5.44.
A4-21K8800Ex K8800. 2AD 13.9.37. 22 Sqdn 13.10.37. 1SFTS 30.5.40. FL Ramsey RLG due weather 22.12.40. 1AD o'haul 8.3.41. 1SFTS 30.8.41. 2AOS 17.10.41. FL Murtoa Vic fractured oil line 2.1.42. FL Hamilton Vic port eng failure 27.4.42. FL due weather 12.6.43. 3AOS 10.12.43. 1CU 13.3.44. GRS 13.7.44. 1SFTS 29.7.44. Badly deteriorated 3.9.44. 1CRD 11.9.44. SHQ Pt Cook storage 18.9.44. Conv to Inst AF No 13 and to AGS for dinghy drill 26.9.44. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 16.10.47. Action complete 25.3.48.
A4-22K8801Ex K8801. 2AD 13.9.37. 22 Sqdn 22.10.37. Landed undercarriage up Canberra 26.6.38. 1 Sqdn 29.8.39. 1SFTS 29.3.40. 2AP 23.9.40. 1SFTS 6.10.40. 1AD 19.2.41. 1SFTS 27.5.41. 2AOS 28.12.41. Ansett Essendon Vic o'haul 25.10.43. 1AD 8.8.44. 6SFTS 9.8.44. 1APU for drop testing 5.7.45. 11EFTS storage 6.9.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 12.5.48. Action complete 25.5.49.
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  • A4-23K8802Ex K8802 1AD 8.9.37. 21 Sqdn 27.10.37. FL King I 11.9.39. 1SFTS 2.5.40. Mid air coll with N4916 landed Werribee Sat. Field Vic 20.9.40. 3SFTS 13.11.40. Qantas o'haul 9.4.41. 3SFTS 9.12.41. 1SFTS 6.4.42. AAS 26.10.42. Ansett o'haul 29.3.43. 1AD 7.9.43. 6SFTS 11.9.43. Reserve 4.6.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 30.7.47. Action compl 18.12.47.
    A4-24K8803Ex K8803 1AD 8.9.37. 23 Sqdn 10.11.37. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 1.1.39. FL Laverton Vic - engine trouble 18.1.38. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. 1SFTS 9.4.40. GRS 15.5.40. 1AD o'haul 1.8.41. 6SFTS 29.10.41. Guinea Airways o'haul 15.9.43. 8SFTS 22.2.44. 2CU 13.3.44. 5AD storage 26.7.44. 1WAGS 12.10.44. Storage 19.3.45. AGRS storage 27.11.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 21.2.47. Sold 2.5.47. Issued to buyer 29.5.47.
    A4-25K8804Ex K8804 1AD 8.9.37. 23 Sqdn 16.11.37. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 1.1.39. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. CFS 14.5.40. 1AOS 19.7.40. 2AD 31.5.41. 1AOS 4.10.41. Tail dam in prec ldg Mangus NSW 23.5.42. Ansett Mascot NSW 2.10.42. 2AP 17.3.43. GRS 23.3.43. Storage 26.2.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 16.10.47. Action complete 12.12.47.
    A4-26K8805Ex K8805 1AD 8.9.37. 2 Sqdn 12.5.38. Undershot on night ldg and hit boundary fence Laverton Vic 29.11.38. Landed u/c up Pt Cook 8.2.39. 1SFTS 16.6.40. 1AD o'haul 18.6.41. GRS 2.10.41. 6SFTS 1.11.41. Reserve 9.1.45. 5CRD storage 13.9.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 20.8.47 Action complete 12.2.47. Sold in auction and remained on a farm at Port Pirie S.A. until around 1987.
    A4-27K8806Ex K8806 2AD 13.10.47. 22 Sqdn 10.11.37. Cr Green Hills Bombing Range (now part of Holsworthy Army Base), Liverpool NSW 29.5.38 after completing bombing practice. Crew; F/L M.P. Alsopp (Pilot), CPL W.A. Lockwood, AC R. Lawson, LAC J Gordon, AC J. Mackey. Approved to scr 24.8.38.
    A4-28K8807Ex K8807 2AD 13.10.37. 22 Sqdn 18.11.37. Taxied into sandbag dump Richmond NSW 14.9.39. 1SFTS 30.5.40. FL Cressy Vic 30.3.41. Ansett 17.7.41. 1SFTS 4.9.41. 2AOS 28.12.41. 1AOS 7.12.43. 2AP 2.8.44. Ansett Mascot NSW o'haul 29.1.45. 3CU storage 27.3.45. Ansett Mascot 21.5.45. 3CRD 13.11.45. Approved to scr 17.4.46.
    A4-29K8808Ex K8808 2AD 13.10.37. Storage 22.2.38. 2 Sqdn via 2AD store 22.2.38. Cr while on a five aircraft navigational exercise that had been recalled due to worsening weather A4-29 while flying in low cloud slammed into a hill called Arthurs Seat, near Dromana VIC 10.8.38. AC1 James Glover in the rear turret survived with minor injuries. Killed were SGT John Gillespie, P/O Robert Symmonds, AC1 Kenneth McKerrow and AC1 Robert Mawson. A/f WO 2.12.38. Engines to instructional CH1 & CH2.
    A4-30K88092AD 13.10.37. 22 Sqdn 27.7.38. Hit Tilley lamp ldg Richmond NSW 15.11.39. 1SFTS via 1FTS 30.5.40. 3SFTS 10.11.40. Qantas o'haul 14.8.41. 8SFTS 6.4.42. Collided with AX505 on ground Bundaberg Qld 25.5.43. 2CU 13.3.44. 2AP 1.5.44. Ansett 4.12.44. 2AD 30.7.45. CMU Evans Head NSW 31.7.45. CMU Narranderra NSW storage 15.3.46. Sold by CDC to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee NSW 17.7.46. Issued 16.10.46. Registered VH-BFJ to U-Drive Pty Ltd, Sydney 28.10.47. Departed overseas on ferry flight 12.11.47 for resale. Sold to M. LeGrand, Saigon, Vietnam 12.47 and canc from Australian Register 4.3.48. Subsequent history unknown but has been suggested as going to Hong Kong as VR-HDR. Another less likely suggestion is that it was given French overseas registration as F-O???.
    A4-31K88102AD 13.10.37. 4 Sqdn 30.8.38. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. FL with engine trouble Richmond NSW 14.2.39. Struck by A4-19 in formation Richmond 28.11.39. GRS 29.3.40. FL Nhill Vic engine failure 7.5.40. 1AD 2.8.41. 6SFTS 19.9.41. Collided with A4-6 after t/o Mallala SA 13.2.42. LAC Keith Allan Mustow (student pilot) and LAC Keith Grant Hayter (student pilot) killed in this aircraft. Approved to scr 12.3.42.
    A4-32K8811Ex K8811 2AD 23.10.37. 4 Sqdn 9.8.38. Prop dam in collision with A4-49 (?) 24.11.38. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. Spun into ground nr Riverston NSW while returning to Richmond 28.4.39. The four occupants, P/O L.J Harness, P/O M.L.Hickson, AC1 R.D Knight and AC H Clark, were killed instantly. Approved to scr 20.6.39.
    A4-33K8812Ex K8812 2AD 23.10.37. 2 Sqdn 29.11.37. Skidded ldg Laverton Vic 14.7.38. Struck object ldg Laverton 22.7.38. Struck flares ldg Laverton at night 8.2.39. 1SFTS 1.7.40. 2AP 7.10.40. 3SFTS 31.10.40. 2AD o'haul 22.7.41. 1AOS 24.1.43. Ground looped and cr during FL Cootamundra NSW 13.10.43. 5AD 8.12.43. 2AP 15.8.44. 2CRD 29.12.44. Scr 9.1.45.
    A4-34K8840Ex K8840(DC) 1AD 23.10.37. 2 Sqdn 30.11.37. Trg Depot Laverton Vic 9.5.38. 21 Sqdn 2.6.39. 1 Sqdn 30.8.39. 1SFTS 2.5.40. 1AD o'haul 19.5.41. Ansett Essendon Vic 4.7.41. 1SFTS 28.8.41. 2AOS 28.12.41. 3AOS 13.12.43. Twisted mainplane diagnosed 27.2.44. Ansett Essendon 20.3.44. 1 Eng Sch 14.7.44 Approved conv to Inst AF No 11 3.8.44. Auth WO 16.4.46. DAP 26.11.47. Action compl 8.2.49.
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  • A4-35K8841Ex K8841(DC) 1AD 23.10.37. FTS 30.11.37. Hit trees night ldg in rain Pt Cook Vic 5.9.38. 1AD 9.9.38. 12 Sqdn 10.2.39. FL near Exford Weir Vic 11.8.39. 1 Sqdn 24.8.39. Acft abandoned by crew out of fuel at night over rough country and landed near West Maitland NSW 10.1.40. Allotted 1 Eng Sch as Inst AF No 2 16.1.40. Approved scr 11.7.40.
    A4-36K8842Ex K8842(DC) 1AD 5.11.37. 2 Sqdn 14.2.38. 2AD 21.2.38. 22 Sqdn 23.2.38. FL in icy conditions Whitfield Vic 15.8.38. 1AD 14.9.38. 2AD 16.11.38. 22 Sqdn 17.11.38. Dam when struck tail of towed vertical target Richmond NSW 26.12.38. Landed u/c up Richmond 26.1.39. 1SFTS 30.5.40. 1AD o'haul 19.2.41. 1SFTS 27.5.41. 2AOS 28.12.41. FL short of fuel Kingston SA 10.2.42. Dam in FL Egerton 19.5.43. 3AOS 8.12.43. GRS 6.3.44. Req o'haul 20.5.44. Grounded 10.7.44. 10EFTS as Inst AF No 10 22.8.44. CMU Narranderra 30.6.44. To be issued to Australian Docks Service Training Company RAF 1.8.45. 7CRD 10.10.45. Not req by ADSTC 16.10.45. No further record.
    A4-37K8843Ex K8843(DC) 1AD 2.11.37. 23 Sqdn 7.12.37. 1AD 18.1.38. 2 Sqdn 25.2.38. Hit on ground by A4-42 Laverton Vic 13.9.38. Undershot and fence Laverton 27.9.38. Ditto and hit pile of timber 1.2.40. 1AD 1.2.40. 2 Sqdn 21.2.40. 1SFTS 1.7.40. Hit fence on approach 1SLG Pt Cook Vic 24.7.40. 1AD o'haul 3.6.41. 1SFTS 7.9.41. 6SFTS 3.1.42. Single engine ldg Nhill Vic 16.1.42. Wire strike 5m SE of Swan Beach 4.12.42. Storage 4.6.45. 5CRD 13.9.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 20.8.47. Action complete 12.12.47.
    A4-38K8844Ex K8844(DC) 1AD 5.11.37. 23 Sqdn 26.1.38. Renumbered 25 Sqdn 1.1.39. 14 Sqdn 14.2.39. CFS 14.5.40. 1AD 24.2.41. 4SFTS 28.2.41. Wind dam Geraldton WA 4.4.41. ANA Maylands WA 29.6.42. 4SFTS 18.1.43. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48.
    A4-39L7913Ex L7913 1AD 23.8.38. 2 Sqdn 30.8.38. FL in fog on road near Toolern Vale Vic 21.5.40. 1SFTS 16.6.40. ANA Essendon Vic o'haul 10.7.41. 1SFTS 11.9.41. 6SFTS 3.1.42. DAP Finsbury 3.7.45. 5CRD 6.9.45. Scr 29.11.45.
    A4-40L7914Ex L7914 1AD 23.8.38. 2AD 5.9.38. 4 Sqdn 5.9.38. Renumbered 6 Sqdn 1.1.39. Struck trailing aerial of A4-18 18.7.39. CFS 29.5.40. 1AD 24.2.41. 4SFTS 28.2.41. ANA Maylands WA 14.9.41. 4SFTS 7.6.42. FL Cockleshell Gully WA 29.1.44. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.47. DAP 28.2.47. Action compl 22.6.48.
    A4-41L79151AD 17.8.38. 2AD 29.8.38. 4 Sqn 29.8.38. Renumbered 6 Sqn 1.1.39. 1FTS for Round Australia Flight 11.11.38. 6 Sqn 11.1.39. 1SFTS 30.4.40. O'shot in night landing and hit R3541 Pt Cook Vic 3.9.41. Overran and hit fence after night landing Werribee RLG, Vic 1.12.40. 4SFTS 6.4.41. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU storage 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48. (Note: This aircraft was ‘gifted’ by Sir Thomas Strickland who gave £10,500 in 1938 to the Commonwealth Government for an “Anson bomber”. He requested, and is recorded as having been given, a flight in the aircraft.)
    A4-42L7916Ex L7916 1AD 17.8.38 2 Sqdn 28.8.38. Struck wing of A4-37 Laverton Vic 13.9.38. 1SFTS 16.6.40. 1AD o'haul 20.5.41. 1SFTS 8.8.41. 2AOS 3.10.41. 1AOS 7.12.43. 2AP o'haul 25.5.44. Ansett Mascot 30.1.45. 3CU storage 27.3.45. Ansett 21.5.45. 2RSU 18.7.45. 2CRD 31.8.45. Scr 26.2.46.
    A4-43L7917Ex L7917 1AD 25.8.38. 1FTS 8.9.38. GRS 10.6.40. 1SFTS 27.7.40. 4SFTS 25.5.41. Fl port eng failed, 4 m NW of Yuma WA 18.5.41. ANA Maylands o'haul 22.6.41. 4SFTS 18.5.42. Mid air coll with AW903 Oakabella WA 19.11.42. Fl Beargooda (?). ?24.7.44. Conv to Inst AF No 12 and to 4SFTS 26.9.44. Scr 9.10.44.
    A4-44L79181AD 19.8.38. 2 Sqdn 12.9.38. 1SFTS 8.7.40. Ansett AW 20.6.41. 1AD 8.8.41. 1SFTS 13.8.41. 6SFTS 3.1.42. 1WAGS 29.5.44. Ansett Essendon o'haul 8.1.45. 1AD 28.5.45. 94 Sqdn 19.7.45. CMU Evans Head 15.10.45. Sold by CDC to E McIlree, Sydney 15.11.46. Issued to buyer 30.1.47. Registered to U-Drive Pty Ltd, Sydney as VH-BFK 30.10.47. Departed overseas on ferry flight 12.11.47 for resale. Sold to Hong Kong 1.48 and registration cancelled 4.3.48. Registered as VR-HDX to Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong 1.48. Based in Burma. Cr Sandoway, Burma 9.2.48.
    A4-45L7919Ex L7919 1AD 19.8.38. 21 Sqdn 20.9.38. Trg Depot 19.6.39. Survey Flt 4.10.39. 2SFTS 3.7.40. 3SFTS 4.4.41. Dam u/c in swing on ldg Amberley Qld 4.8.41. 1SFTS 8.4.42. 6SFTS 13.7.42. Ansett 11.9.42. Survey Flt 25.11.42. 1AD for oxygen fit 30.11.42. Survey Flt 14.12.42. Port eng failed and acft cr on t/o Cape Palaranda, Qld 31.5.44 (3 slight inj). 13ARD 5.6.44. Appr to scr 30.6.44. 6CRD for conv 17.7.44.
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  • A4-46L7920Ex L7920 19.8.38. 2 Sqdn 21.9.38. FTS 10.11.38. 2 Sqdn 17.1.39. Trg Depot for Survey Flt 19.4.39. 1SFTS 2.8.40. 1AD 29.9.40. 1SFTS 6.10.40. 1AD 2.2.41. 1SFTS 30.3.41. 2AOS 11.1.42. Fl Hamilton Vic in bad wthr 9.3.42. Dam when struck by N4936 on approach Mt Gambier SA 10.5.42. Appr to scr 1.8.42.
    A4-47L7921Ex L7921 1AD 6.9.38. 21 Sqdn 26.9.38. 1 Sqdn 30.8.39. CFS 29.5.40. 1AOS 5.8.40. Dam taxying Mildura Vic 13.8.40. 1AD 29.8.40. 1ANS 14.11.40. Butler Air Transport 1.6.42. 2AD 3.12.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. Cr on low level cross country Skinbingal (Stockinbingal?) NSW 15.11.43. (4 Inj). 4SFTS 1.3.44. Storage 22.1.45. 87OBU storage 2.8.45. Auth WO 16.5.46. DAP 28.2.47. Action complete 22.6.48.
    A4-48L7922Ex L7922(DC) 1AD 6.9.38. 22 Sqdn via 2AD 4.11.38. 1 Sqdn 28.8.39. O'shot and hit boundary fence Laverton Vic 28.10.39. 1AD 30.10.39. 1 Sqdn 29.12.39. 1SFTS 29.3.40. Hit by N4996 on ground Pt Cook Vic 19.9.40. 1AD 14.6.41. 2AOS 3.10.41. Fl in bad whr Dartmoor, 9.3.42. Fl due whr & partial eng failure Hamilton Vic 21.1.43. 3AOS 8.12.43. Grounded 3AOS awaiting o'haul 16.10.44. Approved conv to Inst AF No 16 6.2.45. Approved to scr 18.9.45.
    AW451.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. Guinea Airways 20.11.44. DAP Parafield 1.5.45. 6 SFTS 2.4.45. School of Army Cooperation 17.5.45. SHQ Canberra storage 14.5.46. Sold to East West Airlines, Tamworth 11.12.47.
    AW483.2 AP 10.10.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. 5 AD 21.12.42. Ansett 31.10.44. 2 AD 21.5.45. CMU Narranderra 25.6.45. NSW Police Dept 8.2.46. CMU Cootamundra 1.5.46. Sold 14.8.46. CoR No 1037 as VH-AVP issued 15.8.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 19.11.46 to Interstate Air Services Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Wfu 13.8.48. Sold as spares 10.48 to Wollongong and South Coast Aviation Co, Wollongong, NSW. Cancelled 6.8.51. Cockpit reported to be under restoration by Friends of the Anson at Ballarat in .07
    AW484.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. Guinea Airways 19.4.44. 6 SFTS 2.10.44. 6 CU 14.12.44. 5 CRD 17.12.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    AW485.2 AP 10.10.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. Cr r Maclean, 30 miles south-south-west of Evans head NSW 7.3.44. (aircraft reported to have disintegrated in mid-air - possibly the result of loss of control in cloud) possible.
    AW486.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 4.5.42. Struck by taxying W1532, Mildura, SA, 21.7.42. Forced landing in paddock 2 miles from Nhill, Vic, 28.9.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Ansett 20.4.44. 1 AD 19.12.44. 6 SFTS 4.1.45. CMU Mallala (date?) . CMU Nhill 22.2.46. SOC 30.7.46.
    AW516.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. Forced landing, Amberley, Qld, 11.3.42. Qantas 19.3.42. 8 SFTS 1.2.43. 71 Sqn 15.2.43. 5 AD 19.10.43. 71 Sqn 1.11.43. 67 Sqn 3.8.44. HQ Point Cook 4.11.44. Ansett overhaul 20.11.44. 1 AD 16.4.45. 67 Sqn ‘MK-P’ 17.4.45. 11 EFTS storage 15.10.45. Damaged during storm at Benalla, Vic, 26.2.46. Converted to components 27.5.46.
    AW518.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 19.12.41. Ansett 3.5.45. 1 CRD 18.8.45. Converted to components 13.9.45.
    AW519.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 19.12.41. Guinea Airways 15.1.45. 6 SFTS 27.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point Cook store 22.8.46. Airflite Pty ltd 13.4.50. 2 ASD 18.12.50. 1 AD 9.1.51. 2 AD 19.9.51. Sold 27.8.53 (although Dept of Cicvil Aviation show it as purchased 22.1.53). CoR No 2306 as VH-CAD issued 22.12.53 to Department of Civil Aviation, Melbourne, Vic. (Allocated to SA/NT Region and based at Parafield). Withdrawn from service 14.9.60. Used for fire practice and burned Parafield SA 8.62.
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  • AW593.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 19.12.41. Guinea Airways 28.3.45. 6 SFTS 5.11.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 23.12.46. 3 AD 17.2.48. SAN 17.9.48. East Sale 25.8.50. 1 AD 19.10.50. Sold to K. Challender, Randwick, NSW 18.8.54.
    AW618.1 AD 9.10.41. AAS 18.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett overhaul 8.2.44. 1 AD 26.9.44. 3 CU 2.10.44. 2 AD 15.10.45. SHQ Richmond 25.3.46. 1 CU 27.5.46. SHQ Laverton for fire patrol (date?). Force landed in paddock 1 mile north of Laverton 11.7.48. No further information.
    AW658.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. Guinea Airways 23.1.45. 6 SFTS 3.9.45. CMU Mallala (date?) CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. For sale Point Cook 24.4.53. Painted as VH-AOC at Moorabbin, Vic, 6.55 during C of A conversion but registration not taken up. CoR No 2327 as VH-GVD issued 22.7.55 to Southern Airlines Pty Ltd, North Melbourne, Vic. Transferred 17.7.57 to Flinders Island Airlines Pty Ltd, Cheltenham, Vic and re-registered VH-FIC on the same day. Took part in farewell Anson fly past over Melbourne 30.6.62 with VH- BSF, VH-FIA. Then withdrawn from use 30.6.62 (in accordance with regulations).
    AW659.1AD 9.10.41. 1CF 16.11.41. 6SFTS 13.12.41. Forced landing at night after striking overhead wires and a car, Maitland ELG, NSW, 7.7.42. Guinea Airways for repairs 13.7.42. 33 Sqn 7.6.43. While stationary, struck by jeep, Kokoda, PNG, 20.6.43. 15 ARD 28.9.43. 1 RCS 24.10.43. 9 CU 4.11.43. Crashed after engine failure 15 miles southwest of Garaina during flight Barry Strip to Garaina, PNG, 14.3.44. 15 ARD 15.4.44. Approved for conversion to components 12.5.44.
    AW660.1AD 12.10.41. To 6 SFTS 29.11.41. Converged and collided with W2530 after take-off, Mallala, SA, 3.6.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 19.12.44. 6 SFTS 2.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 26.3.46. 3 AD 22.1.48. SAN 30.9.48. Crashed in Bass Strait, southwest of Lakes Entrance Vic 26.9.49. . Some of the fuselage was recovered at a later date (possibly 3.11.49).
    AW661.1AD 12.10.41. 2 AOS 23.11.41. 3 AOS 10.12.43. 2 AOS 13.3.44. Guinea Airways 19.5.44. 6 SFTS 24.11.44. Sold to East-West Airways, Tamworth, NSW, 19.3.47.
    AW664.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 1 CF 2.11.42. Ansett 22.3.43. 1 CF 29.3.43. 1 SFTS for use of AOC No 1 Training Group 3.8.44. CFS Comm Flt 20.9.44. 1 CU 26.12.44. Ansett 5.3.45. 1 AD 23.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. 1 AD Test & Ferry Sqn 6.2.46. 1 AD 6.8.46. Sold to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgeee, NSW, 14.8.46. (Also reported to have served with No 1 Wireless Gunnery School, Ballarat, Vic - poss misreading of AW669?).
    AW665.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. Qantas 19.3.42. 3 AD 28.9.42. 71 Sqn ‘PP-B’ 1.10.42. Struck telephone wire after take-off, Lowood, Qld, 14.2.43. 2 AP 6.5.44. 3 AD 30.12.44. APL overhaul 5.3.45. 3 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    AW666.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 10.1.42. 5 CRD 12.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    AW667.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 30.5.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-K’ 25.8.43. Returned to Mallacoota, Vic, with engine trouble probably due to water in the fuel .43. Crashed on test flight, Yanakie, Vic, 17.4.44. F/Sgt D.G Shanks (pilot) LAC J Griffin and AC1 R.O. Rathke killed.
    AW668.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 10.1.42. Guinea Airways 15.1.45. 6 SFTS 18.7.45. 1 CU 7.8.45. Badly damaged by electrical fire on ground, Mascot, NSW, 9.11.45. (SOC or converted to components date?)
    AW669.1 AD 27.10.41. 6 SFTS 13.12.41. Undercarriage collapsed on landing, Mallala, SA, 9.6.43. Guinea Airways 31.3.44. 6 SFTS 25.10.44. 1 WAGS 12.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold to Captain Lynch, Northbingle, NSW 4.10.46.
    AW674.2 AP 10.10.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. 33 Sqn 23.9.42. 15 RSU 18.11.42. 1 RCS 26.12.42. 33 Sqn 29.1.43. Wheels up forced landing, 7 miles from Port Moresby strip, PNG, 11.3.43.
    AW675.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 25.12.44. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Forced landing after engine failure, 3 miles north of Berojondo, Qld, 7.10.43. 2 AP 16.10.44. 3 AD 30.12.44. APL overhaul 26.2.45. 3 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    AW676.2 AP 10.10.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. Mid-air collision with AW797 while changing formation, 32 miles south-west of Mount Gambier, SA, 19.8.43. Guinea Airways 6.11.43. 6 SFTS 29.2.44. Converted to components 11.3.44.
    AW677.2 AP 10.10.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. Crashed 14 miles north-west of Ungarie, NSW, 11.2.42.
    AW678.2 AP 10.10.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. Crashed - cause unknown, Reedy Creek, near Kingston,SA, 11.8.42. . Sgt John Edward Moorhouse & Sgt Malcolm Albert Thiele (pilots), Sgt William Nathaniel Higham Fleming (Instructor), LACs William Ross Bremner Fenton and Charles Thomas Fletcher all killed.
    AW679.2 AP 10.10.41. 8 SFTS 7.3.42. Forced landing after engine failure, 5 miles from Rockhampton, Qld, 7.4.42. 2 AP 9.7.44. Ansett overhaul 30.1.45. 2 AD 24.9.45. CMU Evans Head 8.10.45. Sold 12.8.46. CoR No 1276 as VH-AVY issued 5.5.47 to Consolidated Press Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 11.4.51 to South Coast Airways Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW. Transferred 1.1.53 to Goilala Air Service, Tapini, NG. Transferred 23.3.53 to A.L. Casselberg (Director of Goilalal Air Service), Goilala, NG. C of A lapsed 5.3.54. Cancelled 28.6.56.
    AW680.1 AD 27.10.41. 6 SFTS 13.12.41. While stationary, struck by W2569, Mallala, SA, 14.7.42. heavy landing, Mallala, SA, 21.2.43. Struck building with wing while taxying, Mallala, SA, 2.4.44. Guinea Airways 29.1.45. 6 SFTS 30.7.45. CMU Mallala (Date?). CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. For sale 24.4.53. CoR No 2314 as VH-GVA issued 9.6.54 to Goulburn Valley Air Services, Thornton, Vic “Waranga”. Company taken over by Southern Airlines Pty Ltd, North Melbourne, Vic and ownership transferred 28.4.55. Transferred 6.2.56 to Carsair Air Services, Coorparoo, Qld. Re-registered VH-BUY 14.5.56 to Carsair Air Service, Port Moresby, NG. Reported scrapped in PNG return of 23.3.62 and cancelled.
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  • AW681.1 AD 27.10.41. GRS 14.12.41. 2 AOS 28.12.41. 3 AOS 18.12.43. Guinea Airways overhaul 26.3.44. 6 SFTS 6.11.44. Sold to New England Airways, Sydney, 4.10.46.
    AW682.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 10.1.42. Guinea Airways 29.1.45. 6 SFTS 9.8.45. AGRS 23.12.46. 3 AD 2.1.48. SAN 30.9.48. East Sale 25.8.50. 1 AD 19.10.50. Sold to H.L. Telford, Shepparton, Vic, 16.7.53.
    AW683.2 AP 10.10.41. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. Collided with W2040 during landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 11.4.42. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. APL 24.11.44. Converted to components 25.6.45.
    AW751.1 AD 27.10.41. GRS 14.12.41. 2 AOS 28.12.41. 3 AOS 10.12.43. 6 SFTS 22.2.44. Guinea Airways overhaul 29.11.44. 6 SFTS 22.6.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook storage 2.9.46. For sale at Point Cook 24.4.53.
    AW796.1 AD 9.11.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. 2 AOS 24.1.42. 2 AP 12.7.44. Ansett 31.7.44. 2 AD 12.2.45. 14 ARDRP 30.4.45. 6 CU 19.5.45. 5 CRD 26.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    AW797.1 AD 9.11.41. 2 AOS 14.12.41. Collided with AW676 during formation change, 32 miles south-west of Mount Gambier, SA, 19.8.43.. 3 AOS 10.12.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 21.5.44. 6 SFTS 24.11.44. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    AW798.2 AP 28.11.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Guinea Airways overhaul 6.3.45. 6 SFTS 29.10.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 25.2.47. CMU Benalla 1.9.47. 3 AD 16.7.48. SAN 26.11.48. East Sale 25.7.50. 1 AD 13.3.51. Sold 6.9.54. CoR No 2129 as VH-BID issued 22.9.55 to R.G. Carswell, Port Moresby, NG. Transferred 14.11.55 to Goilala Air Services, Tapini, NG. Withdrawn from use 7.8.57.
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  • AW799.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. 73 Sqn ‘99’ 26.12.42. Damaged in hangar during gale (where?) 4.8.43. Crashed in bad weather on south-east side of Pigeon House Mountain 10 miles west of Ulladulla NSW. 9.9.43. F/Sgt C.D Robertson (pilot) F/Sgt K.A. Richards and F/Sgt B.V. Higgins killed.
    AW800.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 ANS 16.2.42. Taxying accident with AX265, Parkes, NSW, 11.10.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 19.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    AW801.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. Converted dual control to solo 29.4.44. APL overhaul 8.5.45. 3 CRD 9.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AW845.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. Converted dual control to solo 14.6.44. APL overhaul 23.4.45. 3 CRD 7.9.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AW846.1 AD 9.11.41. 6 SFTS 13.12.41. Struck by W1941 while stationary, Mallala, SA, 24.2.42. Collided with DJ508 when they were landing on converging courses, Mallala, SA, 26.5.43. Guinea Airways 17.7.44. 6 SFTS 19.12.44. Sold to Guinea Airways 15.10.46.
    AW847.1 AD 9.11.41. 6 SFTS 13.12.41. Ground looped and undercarriage collapsed after landing, Mallala, SA, 14.11.43. No further information.
    AW848.1 AD 9.11.41. 2 AOS 14.12.41. 3 AOS 8.12.42. Ansett overhaul 20.4.44. 1 AD 5.12.44. 6 SFTS 18.1.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point Cook storage 22.8.46. For sale at Point Cook 24.4.53.
    AW849.1 AD 9.11.41. 2 AOS 14.12.41. Crashed and burned 8 miles west of Tantanoola, SA, 14.10.42. F/O Baxter Watson (pilot) killed.
    AW864.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. Ground looped after landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 19.4.44. APL 22.5.44. 3 AD 16.4.45. 5 AD 5.5.45. Sold to J. Loneragan & Co, Mudgee, NSW, 4.9.47.
    AW865.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 AOS 6.4.42. Overshot landing and hit fence, Cootamundra, NSW, 10.5.42. 73 Sqn 2.1.43. 5 AD 20.11.43. 73 Sqn 4.12.43. 67 Sqn 4.8.44. Point Cook store 4.11.44. Ansett 18.3.45. 1 AD 21.8.45. 1 APU for trials 30.8.45. 1 AD 17.4.46. SOC 19.5.48.
    AW866.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. Crashed in cane field after fuel starvation, Clayton, near Bundaberg, Qld, 11.11.43. SOC 25.8.43.
    AW867.2 AP 28.11.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-G’ 15.12.42. Brakes failed while taxying, Mount Gambier, SA, 22.12.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 18.10.44. 6 SFTS 19.3.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. For sale 15.9.52. CoR No 2000 as VH-ICA issued 29.5.53 to Inter-Coastal Airlines, East St Kilda, Vic. Transferred 21.7.54 to Australian Aircraft Sales, Kings Cross, NSW. Transferred 17.10.55 to West Darling Air Service Pty Ltd, Kings Cross, NSW. Damaged at Wanaaring, NSW, 4.2.56. Cancelled 7.3.56 at owner's request. Wreckage still present 6.66.
    AW868.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. 1 WAGS 1.2.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Guinea Airways 13.4.44. 6 SFTS 23.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 10 CU 16.10.44. 12 LASU 20.5.45. Converted to components 12.10.45.
    AW872.1 AD 9.11.41. 6 SFTS 13.12.41. To Instructional No 7 17.2.44.
    AW873.1 AD 9.11.41. 2 ANS 6.12.41. Forced landing, Beaufort, Vic, 7.6.42. 1 AD 15.6.42. Ansett 15.6.42. 1 AD 10.11.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 1 WAGS 1.2.43. 1 AOS 22.2.43. 5 AD 21.12.43. 2 AP overhaul 1.9.44. 2 CRD 29.12.44. Converted to components 9.1.45.
    AW874.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. APL 7.5.45. 3 CRD 11.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AW875.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. Ansett 29.3.43. 2 AP 14.12.43. 8 SFTS 14.12.43. 3 CRD 11.6.45. Converted to components 11.6.45.
    AW877.2 AP 2.1.42. 8 SFTS 30.3.42. Collided with tractor on landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 4.7.43. GRS 30.7.43. Wing struck pole while taxying, Bairnsdale, Vic, 26.11.43. Ansett overhaul 15.1.45. 1 AD 12.6.45. 6 SFTS 12.6.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 26.3.47. 3 AD 9.2.48. SAN 17.9.48. East Sale 25.8.50. 1 AD 13.3.51. Sold 18.12.52. CoR No 1986 as VH-BAB (2) issued 1.4.53 to Brain & Brown Air Freighters Pty Ltd, Brunswick, Vic - later Moorabbin Airport, Cheltenham, Vic. Badly damaged 12.4.60 at Moorabbin when port undercarriage collapsed during turn after landing. Cancelled 13.7.60. Broken up at Moorabbin.
    AW878.2 AP 28.11.41. 1 AOS 31.1.42. 1 WAGS 1.2.43. 1 CF 19.7.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Crashed into sea near Lady Julia Percy Island, Vic, 15.2.44. FSgt James Henry MacLellan (pilot), FSgt Dennis Leslie Baulderstone (instructor) LACs Norman Thomas Kruck and Brian Carter Ladyman (student observers) killed.
    AW879.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. Ground looped after landing and undercarriage collapsed, Bundaberg, Qld, 11.1.44. 3 AD 21.2.44. APL 19.10.44. 3 AD 2.5.45. School of Army Cooperation 10.5.45. Governor General’s Flight 4.4.46. Used by DCAS .47. SHQ Canberra 2.6.47. Point Cook 30.6.47. 2 CS 7.8.47. 1 CU 18.12.47. SAN 2.4.48. 2 AD 2.12.48. 1 AD 25.9.51. Sold to Murdock, Burgoyne & Blakemore, Brighton, Vic, 19.12.52.
    AW880.2 AP 2.1.42. 1 AOS 6.4.42. 73 Sqn 26.12.42. Ansett overhaul 2.3.44. 2 AP 3.9.44. 8 SFTS 7.9.44. Maryborough 29.1.45. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head (date?) SOC 6.2.48.
    AW902.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 16.3.42. Crashed into sea 1 mile off Bargara, near Bundaberg, Qld, 1.6.42.
    AW903.1 AD 6.1.42. 4 SFTS ‘80’ 16.3.42. Ground looped on take-off and undercarriage collapsed, Geraldton, WA, 7.4.42. ANA 18.5.42. 4 SFTS 12.10.42. Mid-air collision with A4-43, Oakabella, 15 miles north of Geraldton, WA, 19.11.42. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    AW904.1 AD 7.12.41. Not erected. Converted to components 3.2.42.
    AW905.1 AD 7.12.41. AAS 24.3.42. 1 CU 27.4.42. Ansett 14.6.43. 1 AD 14.9.43. 6 SFTS 25.9.43. DAP Parafield 28.6.45. 3 CRD 6.9.45. Converted to components 29.11.45.
    AW906.2 AP 2.1.42. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. Overshot through boundary fence, Bundaberg, Qld, 1.12.43. No further info.
    AW907.2 AP 2.1.42. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 22.4.43. APL overhaul 4.12.44. 3 AD 20.6.45. 4 CU 22.6.45. Maryborough storage 28.1.46. Sold 10.10.46. CoR No 1464 as VH-BBX issued 15.12.47 to Townsville and Country Airways Pty Ltd, Townsville, Qld. Withdrawn from use 11.12.48 and cancelled 26.4.51. (Note: Although this is the official version but at least one expert considers that VH-BBX was an aircraft in the DJ serial range).
    AW908.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 23.3.42. APL overhaul 20.12.44. 3 AD 6.8.45. CMU Evans Head 13.8.45. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane, 13.11.46.
    AW913.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 16.3.42. Ansett overhaul 14.4.44. 2 AP 11.12.44. 6 SFTS 13.12.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-Y’ 8.1.45. 2 OTU 10.9.45. 10 EFTS storage 11.10.45. SOC 11.8.47.
    AW914.1 AD 7.12.41. 4 SFTS 16.3.42. ANA 14.8.44. 7 CU 8.3.45. Brakes failed on landing and aircraft struck a mound, Wallal, WA, 10.6.45.
    AW915.1 AD 7.12.41. 2 ANS 9.2.42. Forced landing at night, Tartna Point, NSW, 9.7.42. 2 OTU 31.8.43. SOC 12.9.42.
    AW917.2 AP 2.1.42. 1 AOS 30.3.42. 33 Sqn 23.10.42. 12 RSU 6.12.42. 33 Sqn 10.12.42. Forced landing on beach with fuel shortage, Deba Deba, Qld, 3.1.43. Ansett 15.1.43. 2 AP 4.8.43. 71 Sqn 30.10.43. 5 AD 9.11.43. 71 Sqn 30.11.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-P’ 3.8.44. Converted to components 1.11.45.
    AW918.2 AP 2.1.42. 1 AOS 6.4.42. 33 Sqn 23.9.42. 12 RSU 13.10.42. 33 Sqn 7.12.42. 15 RSU 21.1.43. 33 Sqn 13.2.43. 7 AD 17.5.43. Ansett 8.9.44. Converted to components 25.4.45.
    AW941.1 AD 7.12.41. 4 SFTS 16.3.42. Bounced then stalled at 20 ft while landing, Georgina SLG, WA, 29.3.42. Tyre blew on landing and acft ground looped, Georgina SLG, WA, 19.7.42. Landed on tiop of W20454, Georgina SLG, 16.11.42. ANA 11.1.43. 4 SFTS 19.4.43. Converted to components 18.3.43. (dates as given on card).
    AW963.1 AD 7.12.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 67 Sqn 15.12.42. 1 AD 3.2.43. 67 Sqn 16.2.43. While stationary was struck by taxying P-43 A56-1, Laverton, Vic, 25.3.43. Ansett 4.4.43, 1 AD 25.8.43. 1 RCS 9.10.43. 9 CU 17.11.43. APL 8.5.44. 3 AD 16.4.45. 2 OTU 11.5.45. Forced landing, short of fuel, 6 miles south of Rose, SA, 3.9.45.
    AW965.1 AD 7.12.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-H’ and ‘MK-Z’ 15.12.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 26.10.44. 6 SFTS 27.4.45. CMU Mallala (date?) CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook storage 22.8.46. Offered for disposal 15.9.52. Still for sale Point Cook 31.3.53. CoR No 2316 as VH-FIA issued 16.8.54 to Flinders Island Airlines Pty Ltd, Cheltenham, Vic. Took part in farewell Anson fly past over Melbourne 30.6.62 with VH- BSF, VH-FIC. Cancelled 30.6.62 (in accordance with regulations). Remains to AARG, Moorabbin 1.63 and held in open storage for many years at their museum at Moorabbin, Vic. To South Australian Aviation and Warbird Restoration Group, Glenelg, SA 10.84 for restoration (with parts from W2434 and EF954) Displayed at the South Australian Aviation Museum, Adelaide as EF954.
  • Images of AW965.
  • AW967.1 AD 7.12.44. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 4.5.44. Ansett overhaul 27.10.44. 2 AD 12.6.45. 6 SFTS 2.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point Cook store 22.8.46. For sale 24.4.53. CoR No 2331 as VH-FIB issued 23.4.56 to Flinders Island Airlines Pty Ltd, Cheltenham, Vic. Crashed near Loch, Vic, and destroyed by fire (2 crew killed) 10.2.60. Cancelled 10.2.60.
    AX113.2AP 27.12.41. 1 CF 23.2.42. Ansett 22.3.43. 1 CF 29.3.43. 1 AD 3.4.44. 1 CU 17.4.44. SHQ Laverton 28.6.44. 1 APU 31.7.44. Ansett 12.2.45. 1 AD 23.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. Sold to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW, 12.7.46.
    AX117.2 AP 27.12.41. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. GRS 30.4.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    AX120.2 AP 27.12.41. 1 AOS 16.3.42. 33 Sqn 23.9.42. Crashed 2 miles north of Wards Strip, Port Moresby, NG, after starboard engine failed, 21.10.42.
    AX121.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 16.3.42. Collided with W2619 while taxying, Bundaberg, Qld, 19.6.44.
    AX123.2 AP 27.12.41. 8 SFTS 10.3.42. Converted from dual to solo control 8.6.44. 2 AOS 26.12.44. CMU Mount Gambier (date?). 2 OUT 6.2.46. Sold 14.8.47.
    AX124.2 AP 27.12.41. 8 SFTS 10.3.42. GRS 30.7.43. 1 CRD 14.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX126.2 AP 27.12.41. 8 SFTS 10.3.42. Struck R3334 on take-off, Bundaberg, Qld, 27.1.44. Forced landing on runway, Maryborough, Qld, 27.7.44. 3 CRD 5.8.44. APL overhaul 20.10.44. 3 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    AX127.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 16.3.42. APL 11.12.44. 3 AD 9.7.45. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane, 10.10.46.
    AX147.2 AP 27.12.41. 1 AOS 2.3.42. 2 CF 5.4.43. Ansett 24.5.43. 2 CF 21.6.43. 6 SFTS 2.8.43. Guinea Airways 20.1.44. 6 SFTS 10.7.44. Wing struck water (where?) 19.10.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    AX148.2 AP 27.12.41. 8 SFTS 23.3.42. 2 AP 27.6.44. Ansett 1.8.44. 2 AD 6.3.45. 6 SFTS 15.3.45. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1407 as VH-BFI issued 26.9.47 to New England Airways, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred 4.5.48 to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 4.8.50 to Overland Air Services Pty Ltd, Condobolin, NSW. Crashed Padstow, NSW, after engine failure and destroyed by fire. 13.1.52 (2 killed). Cancelled 23.7.52.
    AX220.2 AD 16.2.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. Converted from dual to solo control 29.4.44. APL 8.5.45. 3 CRD 11.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AX223.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AOS 12.10.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. GRS 6.3.44. Wing struck tree during low flying exercise then aircraft struck water, Bairnsdale, Vic, 20.4.44. 1 CRD 21.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX224.2 AD 16.2.42. 2 AOS 6.4.42. During low flying exercise, struck foliage near Lake Bonney, SA, 9.9.42. Brakes failed, ground looped and undercarriage collapsed, Mount Gambier, SA, 18.3.43. 3 AOS 10.12.43. 6 SFTS 22.2.44. Forced landing 7 miles south-west of Bute, SA, 13.8.44. Guinea Airways 30.11.44. 6 SFTS 15.5.45. Sold 16.9.46. CoR No 1163 as VH-AKJ issued 9.1.47 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney. Transferred 1.2.47 to Interstate Air Services Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. C of A expired 8.1.48. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    AX225.2 AD 16.2.42. GRS 23.3.42. Point Cook 4.1.43. 1 SFTS 11.1.43. GRS (date? but there between 10/11/43 and 10/02/44) Forced landing low on fuel in bad weather, 1 mile north of Rosedale, Vic, 25.2.45. 1 CRD 27.2.45. SOC 23.4.45.
    AX236.2 AD 6.2.42. 34 Sqn 9.9.42. 6 SFTS 23.11.42. 6 CF 18.12.42. Forced landing, Cape Hotham, NT, 5.1.43. 1 RSU 10.1.43. 6 CF 31.1.43. 1 RSU 13.2.43. 14 ARD 20.3.43. 7 AD 28.4.43. Ansett overhaul 28.9.44. 1 CRD 8.12.44. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    AX237.2 AD 22.2.42. 3 CF 14.9.42. Marshall Airways 10.10.42. Butler Air Transport 29.4.43. 3 CF 2.8.43. 2 AP 4.9.43. 5 CU 8.5.44. Ansett 19.5.44. 2 AD Ferry Flight 19.1.45. SOC 16.5.46.
    AX238.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AOS 21.9.42. 3 AOS 14.12.43. 6 SFTS 22.2.44. Guinea Airways 22.11.44. 6 SFTS 7.5.45. Loan to 723 Sqn RN, Bankstown, NSW, 14.5.45. 10 EFTS storage 9.1.46. Sold 15.11.46. CoR No 1335 as VH-BBG issued 1.3.47 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney, NSW. Suspended 18.9.47 to 6.11.47. Transferred 22.9.48 to U-Drive Pty Ltd, Mudgee, NSW. Withdrawn from service 17.9.48 and cancelled 8.11.51. Restored 13.10 55 with CoR 2902 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Withdrawn from service Archerfield, Qld, and cancelled 1.8.57. Derelict at Archerfield.
    AX240.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 22.7.42. 6 SFTS 2.10.42. Taxying accident, Lower Light SLG, SA, 12.6.43. Ansett overhaul 24.5.45. 1 CRD 18.8.45. Converted to components 13.9.45.
    AX241.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 20.7.42. GRS 27.10.42. Taxied into portable compressor, Bairnsdale, Vic, 6.8.43. 1 CRD 21.9.45. SOC 16.5.46.
    AX249.2 AD 6.2.42. Butler Air Transport 9.7.42. 2 AD 3.8.42. 8 SFTS 23.8.43. 33 Sqn 10.10.42. 12 RSU 13.10.42. 33 Sqn 13.11.42. 15 RSU 28.12.42. 33 Sqn 24.2.43. Forced landing, Pongani Mission, NG, 26.5.43. 15 ARD 26.5.43. 2 AD 29.8.43. To Instructional No 6. 15.12.43.
    AX250.2 AD 16.2.42. 2 AOS 6.4.42. Forced landing near Bendigo, Vic, 15.8.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. DAP Parafield 8.8.45. 5 CRD 1.10.45. Converted to components 7.11.45.
    AX251.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 6.7.42. 2 AOS 31.8.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 16.5.46.
    AX252.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 2 AOS 31.8.42. Wheels up landing, St Helena, 19 miles south of Lucindale, SA, 5.7.43. Ansett 26.7.43. 1 AD 27.9.43. SOC 1.10.43.
    AX261.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 22.7.42. 6 SFTS 14.9.42. 73 Sqn 17.1.43. 5 AD 23.1.44. 73 Sqn ‘NJ-K’ 31.1.44. Flew into high tension wires, Nowra, NSW, 10.10.44(confirm year?). 67 Sqn 3.8.44. Point Cook 4.22.44. Ansett 19.1.45. 1 AD 25.6.45. AFRU 21.8.45. Sold 14.8.46. CoR No 1144 as VH-ALY issued 20.12.46 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney, NSW. Departed Australia on ferry to UK for sale 24.3.47. Cancelled from Australian Register 29.4.47. Registered in UK as G-AJSE 5.5.47 to Eric. E. McIlree, Croydon. C of A No 9396 issued 25.2.48. Sold 31.5.48. Registration cancelled 31.5.48 by Secretary of State as not re-registered but fate unknown. C of A lapsed 24.2.49 and aircraft also reported as withdrawn from use 7.50. (Note: This is the official version but the ex RAAF identities of VH-ALX and VH-ALY were probably reversed. Inspection in Croydon, UK, on 13.5.47 found VH-ALX painted on AX261 and VH-ALY painted on DG696 consequently it is believed AX261 actually became G-AJSC and DG 696 became G-AJSE).
    AX262.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 22.7.42. 6 SFTS 7.9.42. Forced landing, Mallala, SA, 21.7.43. 5 CRD 12.9.43. SOC 16.5.46.
    AX263.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 23.3.42. 2 AP 14.9.44. 3 AD 29.11.44. APL 3.3.45. 3 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    AX264.2 AD 22.2.42. 8 SFTS 30.7.42. APL overhaul 25.5.45. 3 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AX265.2 AD 23.2.42. 1 ANS 15.6.42. Brakes failed and acft taxied into AW800, Parkes, NSW, 11.10.43. 73 Sqn 23.11.43. 5 AD 12.12.43. 73 Sqn 7.1.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-B’ 2.8.44. Point Cook 4.11.44. Ansett overhaul 20.11.44. 1 AD 9.4.45. 67 Sqn 12.4.45. 1 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX266.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 10.8.42. 12 RSU 22.11.42. 1 RCS 6.12.42. Undercarriage collapsed (where?) 18.12.42. 12 RSU 21.12.42. 10 RSU 28.12.42. 1 RCS 9.1.43. 7 AD 25.2.43. 8 SFTS 4.10.43. Converted from dual to solo control 19.7.44. APL 4.12.44. 3 CRD 6.12.45. Converted to components 25.7.45.
    AX267.2 AD 16.2.42. 1 ANS 12.6.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 73 Sqn 22.5.44. 2 APU 2.8.44. 1 AOS 16.10.44. 3 AOS 19.1.45. 5 CRD 6.12.45. SOC 16.5.46.
    AX280.2 AD 16.2.42. 6 SFTS 28.9.42. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    AX281.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 31.8.42. 1 AD 19.1.43. 1 WAGS 25.2.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Photo exists as 73 Sqn ‘NJ-K’.44 but not shown on card. 1 WAGS 12.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 27.5.45.
    AX282.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 10.8.42. GRS 27.10.42. Undercarriage collapsed, Bairnsdale, Vic, 4.8.43. 1 CRD 21.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX285.1 AD 8.a.42. 8 SFTS 16.3.42. 88 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    AX286.1 AD 6.1.42. 8 SFTS 23.3.42. Qantas 30.3.42. 3 AD 25.8.42. 8 SFTS 31.8.42. Ansett overhaul 21.6.45. 2 RSU 1.8.45. 2 CRD 31.8.45. 2 AD 11.2.46. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    AX289.1 AD 21.1.42. Ansett 17.6.42. 1 AD 5.1.43. 6 SFTS 19.1.43. 73 Sqn 21.4.43. 5 AD 18.11.43. 73 Sqn 8.12.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-G’ 3.8.44. Landing accident, Laverton, Vic, 17.12.44. 1 CRD 7.8.45. Converted to components 22.1.46.
    AX299.1 AD 6.1.42. 1 CF 9.2.42. 1 AD 4.3.42. 4 SFTS ‘99’ 16.3.42. Crash landed in a swamp, Cardabia Station Homestead, 140 miles north of Carnarvon, WA, 30.9.42. Converted to components 23.10.42.
    AX302.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 22.7.42. 4 CF 14.9.42. Undercarriage collapsed on landing, Toowoomba, Qld, 14.3.44.
    AX303.22.2.42. 6 SFTS 28.9.42. 67 Sqn 2.2.43. Overshot landing and ground looped, Mallacoota, Vic, 28.2.43. 7 AD 15.3.43. SOC 27.10.43.
    AX305.2 AD 22.2.42. 2AP 20.7.44. 1 AOS 23.9.42. 73 Sqn 26.12.42. 5 AD 21.11.43. 73 Sqn ‘NJ-G’ 2.12.43. 67 Sqn 3.8.44. Point Cook 4.11.44. Ansett overhaul 20.11.44. 1 AD 3.4.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. CMU Benalla (date?). 1 AD 23.11.48. Sold to J.H. Hutchinson, Tocumwal, 7.5.53. The Queensland Air Museum tells us "It should be noted that for many years there was some doubt as to the correct military identity of VH-BIF which was thought to be W2472, but it is now believed to be AX305. Anson AX305 is understood to have a fuselage number of R3/LW/107500. This number is carried on a data plate which was found affixed to the fuselage of VH-BIF at the time of its recovery from Charleville. Anson W2472 is understood to have a fuselage number in the range R3/LW/88521 (W2434) to R3/LW/88569 (W2486). Anson W2472 has since been located at Miles, Qld. As these numbers were not allocated in strict sequence, it is not possible to extrapolate corresponding military serial numbers or vice versa. The weight of evidence now suggests that VH-BIF is ex AX305."
    Now known that AX305 became VH-BIF although this aircraft was officially ex W2472. As VH-BIF its subsequent history is: CoR No 2124 issued 15.7.55 to R.G. Carswell, Moorooka, Qld - change of address to c/- Carsair, Port Moresby, NG, .56. Engine faltered on take-off and acft swung, damaging undercarriage, Taipini, NG, 4.56. Transferred to Carsair Air Service, Port Moresby 5.12.57. Ferried from Archerfield, Qld, to ‘Dundee Station, near Charleville, Qld, 20.1.59. Cancelled 19.2.59. Donated by Bell Bros, owners of Dundee Station to Queensland Air Museaum and transferred by road to Brisbane 10.5.81. Stored in Hendra Woolsheds, dismantled with instrument panel displayed in the museum at Caloundra. Fuselage frame transferrfd to Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, 4.90. Fuselage frame on display at Queensland Air Museum .91.
  • Images of AX305.
  • AX344.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 6 SFTS 14.9.42. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    AX350.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 30.3.44. 1 AOS 12.6.42. 1 NWS 1.2.43. Landed with undercarriage semi-retracted, 4 miles south of Cressy, Vic, 16.8.43. Ansett 27.10.43. 1 AD 30.5.44. 6 SFTS ‘61’ 3.7.44. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47 after sale to a farmer in Mallala district. Fuselage on display Lincoln Nitschke collection, Greenock, SA.
  • Images of AX350.
  • AX354.2 AD 6.2.42. 6 SFTS 28.9.42. 5 CRD 12.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    AX355.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 10.8.42. 1 AOS 19.10.42. 73 Sqn 16.12.42. Ansett 18.5.43. 2 AP 19.10.43. 8 SFTS 22.10.43. CMU Narranderra 21.6.45. SOC 30.9.47.
    AX416.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 6.7.42. 1 AOS 17.8.42. 3 CRD 18.10.44. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AX417.2 AD 22.2.42. 2 AP 6.7.42. 1 AOS 17.8.42. 5 AD 21.12.43. 2 AP 1.9.44. 2 CRD 29.12.44. Converted to components 9.1.45.
    AX420.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 10.4.42. Crashed and exploded 15 miles north of the Gunning-Crookwell Road, NSW, 14.4.42.
    AX421.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 24.4.42. Attached to 73 Sqn (date?) Taxied into soft ground, undercarriage collapsed, Nowra, NSW, 19.10.42. 2 AP 3.6.44. 2 AD 5.2.45. SOC 2.11.48.
    AX424.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 20.4.42. Ansett overhaul 23.8.43. 2 AP 2.2.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-D’ & ‘MK-U’ 4.2.44. 1 CRD 13.9.45. 1 SD 5.7.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX425.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 10.4.42. Tailplane damaged in precautionary landing, Cootamundra, NSW, 23.5.42. Engine failure on take-of, Cootamundra, NSW, 30.5.42. Butler Air Transport 13.7.42. Ansett 31.7.42. 2 AP 9.3.43. GRS 22.3.42. Forced landing after engine failure, Lakes Entrance Vic, 11.5.43. Overshot and ground looped, Laverton, Vic 1.1.44. Ansett 14.2.44. 1 AD 9.8.44. 6 SFTS 7.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 10 CU 15.10.44. 5 CU for use by Australian Paratroop Battalion, 13.1.45. 13 ARD 14.3.46. Converted to components 16.7.46.
    AX438.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 27.4.42. 1 WAGS 12.4.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Ansett 17.4.44. 1 AD 5.12.44. 6 SFTS 26.1.45. SOC 30.5.47.
    AX439.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 8 SFTS 5.5.42. Forced landing Mundaburra, Qld, 5.5.44. Taxied into by Beaufort A9-276 on runway, Bundaberg, Qld, 17.5.44.
    AX441.2 AD 6.2.42. Butler Air Transport 13.4.42. 2 AD 18.5.42. 1 AD 30.5.42. Radio School 18.6.42. 2 AP 23.6.42. 1 RIMU 6.7.42. 3 CU 14.1.44. 2 AP 24.4.44. 6 SFTS 23.11.44. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1663 as VH-BMS issued 20.9.49 to Charter Flite Aviation Service, Bankstown, NSW. Destroyed by fire in hangar at Bankstown 14.10.49. Cancelled 29.11.49.
    AX442.2 AD 6.2.42. de Havilland 13.4.42. 2 AD 18.5.42. 1 AOS 27.5.42. 1 ANS 22.2.43. 1 WAGS 8.3.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Guinea Airways 19.5.44. 6 SFTS 6.11.44. 6 CU 19.12.44. 5 CRD 5.1.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    AX443.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 1 AOS 17.8.42. 73 Sqn 26.12.42. 5 AD 5.2.44. 2 AP 3.8.44. 67 Sqn 11.8.44. Point Cook 4.11.44. Ansett 18.3.45. 1 AD 27.8.45. 11 EFTS storage 6.9.45. 8 CU 3.12.45. Crashed during cross-wind take-off, Goroka Strip, NG, 24.12.45.
    AX466.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 10.8.42. GRS 27.10.42. Landing accident at Cressy, Vic, 4.1.43. 1 CRD 19.9.45. 1 AD 5.7.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX467.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 24.5.43. No 10 Aerodrome Defence Camouflage Course 3.7.43. 2 AD Ferry Flight (date?). 2 AD 9.1.45. Ansett overhaul 14.5.45. 2 RSU 18.7.45. 2 CRD 31.8.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    AX468.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 30.3.42. 8 SFTS 6.7.42. Collided with AX618 on take-off, Bundaberg, Qld, 20.4.43. APL 2.4.45. 3 CRD 9.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AX470.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 26.3.42. 6 SFTS 13.7.42. 100 Sqn (date?). 67 Sqn ‘MK-K’ 28.9.42. Skidded sideways landing at night, Mount Gambier, SA, 13.10.42. Forced landing 1.5 miles south of Yarram, Vic, 8.8.43. 7 AD 28.8.43. 7 CRD 21.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    AX471.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 30.3.42. 8 SFTS 5.7.42. 71 Sqn 13.4.43. Crashed, Heron Island, 40 miles north-east of Gladstone, Qld, 23.7.43. F/O F.C. McMaster (pilot) F/O D.S. Paterson and F/O F.J. Robinson all killed; F/O R.D. Robertson and AC1 T.G. Eastoe injured.
    AX505.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 8 SFTS 5.5.42. Collided with A4-30 when landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 24.5.43. APL 17.11.44. 3 AD 4.6.45. 92 Sqn 20.6.45. CMU Evans Head 27.9.45. Sold 13.11.46. CoR No 1410 as VH-BBY issued 7.10.47 to Queensland Aerial Ambulance and Taxi Services Pty Ltd, Archerfield, Qld. Transferred 7.11.47 to Air Traders Co., Brisbane, Qld. Sold overseas and left Darwin 12.47 for Siam. Cancelled 27.2.48. Reported sold to Malayan interests for the Indonesian Air Force evidently its first official aircraft as it was to be registered 'RI-001'. Flying south from Thailand with 2 Indonseian pilots, it crashed into the sea off the Malayan coast at a point described variously as ‘near Penang’ and ‘near Tandjung Hantu (near Lumat)’ 14.12.47. (Note: other versions suggest an Indonesian identity of RI-003 but this seems unlikely).
    AX506.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 2 AD 13.4.42. 5 AD 20.4.42. Armament School 8.2.43. Ansett 8.11.43. 1 AD 11.7.44. 5 AD 2.8.44. 1 AOS 14.8.44. 3 AOS 17.1.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold to W.R. Murphy & C.R. Rudd, St Kilda, Vic, 6.5.47.
    AX509.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 2 OTU 7.9.42. Ansett 1.7.43. 4 SFTS 20.11.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 25.2.47.
    AX510.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 6.7.42. 6 SFTS 7.9.42. 73 Sqn 17.1.43, 5 AD 21.11.43. 73 Sqn 2.12.43. Force landed in sea with engine trouble 3 miles off Moruya, NSW, 31.12.43. Crew rescued.
    AX576.2 AD 16.6.42. 1 AOS 25.6.42. 73 Sqn 9.11.42. 11 RSU 5.8.43. 73 Sqn 17.8.43. Ansett 7.4.44. 2 AD 18.11.44. SHQ Laverton for bushfire patrol 12.12.44. 3 CU for radio physics tests by CSIRO, 22.5.45. 2 AD 19.3.46. Damaged by hailstorm (where?) 25.4.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    AX577.2 AD 14.5.42. Butler Air Transport (date?). 8 SFTS 27.6.42. 2 AP 29.7.44. Ansett overhaul 11.12.44. 2 AD 2.7.45. 67 Sqn 6.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 26.9.45. 8 CU 3.12.45. 111 ASR Flight 28.1.46. Sold to Guinea Air Traders Ltd, 21.4.47.
    AX613.2 AP 13.4.42. 1 AOS 12.6.42. 73 Sqn 23.11.42. Crashed after night take-off, Camden, NSW, 26.2.43.
    AX614.2 AD 8.6.42. 2 ANS 22.6.42. ? CRD 22.11.43. Converted to components 4.4.44.
    AX616.2 AP 13.4.42. 8 SFTS 11.5.42. Struck trees and crashed onto petrol dump while making a circuit in low-level fog, Bindaberg, Qld, 24.8.43.
    AX617.2 AD 23.5.42. 1 ANS 1.6.42. 73 Sqn 9.5.43. 5 AD 21.12.43. 73 Sqn 21.1.44. 67 Sqn 1.8.44. Point Cook 1.11.44. Ansett 20.11.44. 1 AD 13.3.45. 6 SFTS storage 24.4.45. 5 AD 19.7.45. AGRS 29.10.45. Offered for disposal, AGRS, Ballarat, Vic, 7.10.52.
    AX618.Butler Air Transport (possibly ex 2 AD) 25.6.42. 2 AD 22.7.42. 8 SFTS 30.7.42. Struck by AX468 which was taking off, Bundaberg, Qld, 20.4.43. 66 Sqn 29.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. APL overhaul 23.4.45. 3 CRD 7.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    AX619.Butler Air Transport (possibly ex 2 AD) 25.6.42. 2 AD 18.7.42. 8 SFTS 20.9.42. 71 Sqn 28.10.42. 5 AD 12.10.43. 71 Sqn 29.10.43. Struck windsock pole during night approach, Lowood, Qld, 14.11.43. APL 20.12.43. 3 AD 24.8.44. 8 SFTS 4.9.44. 1 WAGS 1.1.45. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    AX630.2 AP 13.4.42. 1 AD 5.5.42. 34 Sqn 18.5.42. Guinea Airways 26.11.42. 6 CF 23.12.42. 1 RSU 6.3.43. 14 ARD 20.3.43. 7 AD 17.5.43. Ansett 18.9.44. 1 CRD 8.12.44. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    AX632.2 AP 13.4.42. 8 SFTS 11.5.42. GRS 11.8.43. Undercarriage collapsed, Bairnsdale, Vic, 24.4.44. 1 CRD 14.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    AX633.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 15.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 33 Sqn 10.10.42. Struck tree in bumpy conditions in mountains (where?) 14.10.42. 12 RSU 14.10.42. 33 Sqn 10.12.42. 12 RSU 19.1.43. 13 ARD 14.10.43. Converted to components 26.5.44.
    AX634.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 15.6.42. 2 ANS 30.9.42. 3 AOS 7.12.43. 2 AOS 31.1.44. CMU Mount Gambier (date?). 2 OTU storage 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    AX642.De Havilland 25.6.42 (ex 2 AD?) Butler Air Transport 14.7.42. 2 AD 17.8.42. 1 AOS 21.8.42. 1 WAGS 19.4.43. 2 AOS ‘42’ 20.12.43. Struck ground in shallow dive on low level navigation exercise, Yellangip, 8 miles south-west of Brim, Vic, 9.3.44.
    AX643.De Havilland 27.5.42 (ex 2 AD?)2 AD 22.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 2 AP 10.7.44. Ansett 6.10.44. 2 AD 14.5.45. 3 AOS storage 23.5.45. Sold to E.E. McIlree, Sydney, NSW, 15.11.46.
    AX655.De Havilland 13.6.42. (ex 2 AD?) 2 AD 7.7.42. 8 SFTS 30.7.42. 71 Sqn 13.4.43. 2 AP 28.8.44. APL 27.11.44. 3 CRD 20.7.45. Converted to components 19.9.45.
    AX656.De Havilland 13.6.42. (ex 2 AD?) 2 AD 15.7.42. 8 SFTS 30.7.42. Crashed into sea, Wreck Rock, Bargara Beach Qld, 5.10.42.
    AY849.Crashed 14/10/42, 5 miles west of Tantanoola SA.
    DG213.Crashed 24/02/45, Bairnsdale VIC.
    DG696.1 SFTS (date?). 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 71 Sqn 31.3.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-R, MK-X’ 3.8.44. Ansett overhaul 8.3.45. 1 AD 6.8.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. 7 OTU storage 12.12.45. CMU Tocumwal 7.3.46. Sold 16.8.46. CoR No 1144 as VH-ALX 20.12.46 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney, NSW. Aircraft departed Australia 24.3.47 on ferry flight to UK for resale. Australian registration cancelled 29.4.4.47 as sold in U.K. Officially registered as G-AJSC to Eric E McIlree, Croydon, 5.5.47. C of A No 9395 issued 25.2.48. sold 31.5.48 and registration cancelled as not re-registered. CofA lapsed 24.2.49. Fate unknown. (Note: This is the official version but the ex RAAF identities of VH-ALX and VH-ALY were probably reversed. Inspection in Croydon, UK, on 13.5.47 found VH-ALX painted on AX261 and VH-ALY painted on DG696 consequently it is believed AX261 actually became G-AJSC and DG 696 became G-AJSE.
    DG697.1 SFTS (date?). 6 SFTS 31.8.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. Crashed on landing, Laverton, Vic, 8.11.42. Ansett 11.11.42. 1 AD 23.2.43. GRS 5.3.43. Ground looped while taking off, Cressy, Vic, 12.3.43. Struck fence when landing at Currie, Tas, 22.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    DG698.1 SFTS (date?). GRS 24.5.42. Crashed, Bairnsdale, Vic, 26.12.44. 1 CRD 21.8.45. Converted to components 2.5.46.
    DG725.Montague Dispersal Area, (?) 31.8.42. 2 ANS 17.9.42. 2 AOS 23.9.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 3 CU 1.5.44. GRS 17.7.44. 1 CRD 20.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    DG726.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Signal School 17.9.42. Point Cook 24.11.45. Sold to H. Chrisfield, Laverton, Vic, 29.6.51.
    DG727.Point Cook (date?). 8 SFTS 24.8.42. 73 Sqn 3.9.43. 2 AP 30.5.44. Ansett overhaul 6.10.44. 2 AD 13.4.45. GRS 16.4.45. Sold 6.1.47. CoR No 1274 as VH-BBI issued 1.5.47 to Bega Freight Services Pty Ltd, Eden, NSW. Transferred 2.9.47 to Western Airways Passenger Services Pty Ltd, Warrnambool, Vic. Transferred 4.48 to East-West Airlines, Tamworth, NSW. Transferred 14.12.51 to A.L. McLachlan/Air Express Co, Archerfield Airport, Qld. Transferred 14.12.53 to Air Express Co. Archerfield Airport, Qld. Transferred 6.4.57 to O.W. Gillham, Mackay, Qld. later Gillham Airways Pty Ltd, Mackay, Qld. Deleted 1.7.62 under Air Navigation Regulation 29.9 Withdrawn from use Mackay 30.6.62 and donated to Mackay Air Training Corps HQ. Removed as scrap .66
    DG728.Point Cook 28.9.42. 2 ANS 26.10.42. Taxied into W2135, Nhill, Vic, 10.2.43. 2 AOS 20.9.43. 3 AOS ‘28’ 8.12.43. 5 CRD 17.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DG729.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AOS 12.10.42. 1 WAGS (date?) Ansett overhaul 1.9.44. 2 AD 19.3.45. GRS 26.3.45. Sold 6.2.47. CoR No 1411 as VH-BFG issued 19.10.47 to Western Airways Passenger Services Pty Ltd, Warrnambool, Vic. Transferred 25.4.48 to Corio Air Freighters, Belmont Aerodrome, Geelong, Vic. Transferred 6.12.49 to Bass Islands Airways Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Withdrawn from use 5.12.50 and cancelled 6.8. 51.
    DG730.Point Cook 5.9.42. 2 ANS 30.9.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-T’ 19.3.43. Overshot and ran through fence, Seymour, Vic, 9.1.44. Ansett 14.1.44. 1 AD 22.5.44. 8 SFTS 28.5.44. Maryborough storage 18.6.45. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1300 as VH-BAC issued 31.3.47 to Inland Air Service Pty Ltd, Kedron, Qld. Suspended 19.12.47-10.3.48. Transferred 20.12.48 to Queensland Airlines, Archerfield, Qld. Transferred 19.1.50 to M.W. Hopp, Brisbane, Qld. Suspended 6.8.51-21.12.51. Transferred 14.11.52 to L. Crowley, Crowley Airlines, Lae, NG. Cancelled as withdrawn from use 1.5.56. Broken up Lae.
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  • DG731.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AD 7.10.42. 2 ANS 9.11.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-L’, ‘MK-N’, 28.12.42. Ansett 20.4.45. 1 AD 15.10.45. Sold 8.6.46. CoR No 1052 as VH-AXE issued 6.9.46 to W.T. Dwyer, Greensborough, later West Brunswick and Elsternwick, Vic. Withdrawn from use 16.12.48. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    DG732.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AD 8.10.42. 1 RCF 20.10.42. 12 RSU 18.5.43. 7 ADF 10.6.43. 7 CRD 21.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    DG733.Point Cook 28.9.42. 6 SFTS 10.10.42. 2 AOS ‘33’ 17.11.44. Converted to components 8.5.46.
    DG734.Ansett (date?). 1 AD 23.10.42. 6 SFTS 8.12.42. DAP Parafield 3.8.45. 5 CRD 6.9.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    DG735.Ansett 13.11.42. 1 AD 1.12.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 5 AD 21.12.43. 2 RSU 26.7.45. 2 CRD 23.9.45. 2 AD 11.2.46. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    DG750.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AOS 12.10.42. Ansett 22.1.45. 2 AD 22.8.45. 10 EFTS storage 1.4.46. Sold 14.8.46. CoR No 1315 as VH-AJP issued 12.6.47 to Consolidated Press Ltd, Sydney. Transferred 28.12.49 to South Coast Airways Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW,. Crashed on take-off, Jervis Bay, NSW, 10.2.51. Cancelled 28.8.51 as reduced to spares.
    DG751.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AD 5.10.42. 35 Sqn 20.10.42. ANA 20.1.43. 35 Sqn 8.2.43. Forced landing on beach and caught by the tide, near Wallal, WA, 8.9.43. 4 SFTS 4.10.43. SOC 28.10.43.
    DG753.Point Cook 7.10.42. 6 SFTS 19.10.42. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47 (?). SOC 30.5.47.
    DG768.Point Cook 5.10.42. 12 RSU 12.11.42. 35 Sqn 9.12.42. 10 RSU 19.12.42. 1 SFTS 28.12.42. 6 SFTS 1.2.43. Guinea Airways 4.4.45. 6 SFTS 28.11.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1177 as VH-BAZ issued 11.2.47 to R.P. Carr, Ingham, Qld. CofA expired 1.4.49. Withdrawn from use Maryborough, Qld, .49. Cancelled 28.6.51. Last reported derelict at Maryborough.
    DG824.1 AD 16.3.42. Point Cook 17.5.42. 6 SFTS 22.6.42. 70 Sqn (date?). 6 SFTS (date?). 5 CRD 12.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DG825.1 AD 16.3.42. Point Cook 22.5.42. 8 SFTS 27.6.42. Taxying accident, Bundaberg, Qld, 4.11.42. 71 Sqn 31.3.43. 2 AP 14.8.44. 3 AD 30.12.44. APL 19.2.45. 3 CRD 30.10.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. SOC 7.10.48.
    DG826.1 AD 16.3.42. Experimental Flt 19.4.42. Undercarriage collapsed during landing (where?) 25.6.42. Crashed into hill near Macedon, Vic, 9.5.43. 1 AD 13.5.43.
    DG827.1 AD 16.3.42. 1 SFTS 15.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. GRS 20.8.43. Undercarriage collapsed while taxying, Bairnsdale, Vic, 16.9.43. Damaged landing at pate River, Flinders Island, Tas, 23.12.43. 1 CRD 14.6.45. Converted to components 2.5.46.
    DG837.De Havilland 4.5.42. 2 AD 10.6.42. 8 SFTS 27.6.42. 2 AP 23.10.44. APL overhaul 24.11.44. 3 CRD (date?). Converted to components 26.1.45.
    DG838.Butler Air Transport 13.6.42. 2 AD 8.7.42. Struck by Hudson A16-211 on take-off, Richmond, NSW, 13.7.42. Butler Air Transport 17.8.42. 1 AOS 18.1.43. 4 SFTS 14.4.44. Forced landing, Broken Hill, NSW (presumably on delivery flight) 16.4.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DG842.Butler Air Transport 13.6.42. 2 AD 2.7.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 71 Sqn 2.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Taxied into stationary W2244, Bundaberg, Qld, 8.12.42. 73 Sqn 7.4.43. 5 AD 7.12.43. 73 Sqn 22.12.43. 5 AD to fit ASV radar 16.1.44. 73 Sqn 23.1.44. 67 Sqn 17.8.44. Ansett 20.11.44. 1 AD 6.3.45. 6 CU 30.3.45. 10 EFTS storage 24.12.45. SOC 11.8.47.
    DG843.2 AD 8.6.42. 1 ANS 12.6.42. 1 WAGS 12.9.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier (date?). 2 OUT storage 13.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    DG860.2 AP 13.4.42. 8 SFTS 11.5.42. 88 )BU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    DG865.1 AD 29.3.42. 34 Sqn 18.5.42. 6 CF 8.12.42. 1 RSU 6.3.43. 14 ARD 20.3.43. 7 AD 15.5.43. Converted to components 21.5.45.
    DG866.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 15.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 71 Sqn 2.9.42. Ground looped Coffs Harbour, NSW, 15.9.42. 7 RSU 24.9.42. Butler Air Transport 20.10.42. 2 AP 20.9.43. 8 SFTS 23.9.43. GRS 30.4.45. Sold to W.T. Dwyer, West Brunswick, Vic, 15.4.47.
    DG867.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 22.5.42. 8 SFTS 27.6.42. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    DG868.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 15.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. Collided with W2063 while taxying, Bundaberg, Qld, 30.9.42. 66 Sqn ‘JN-O’ 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. APL overhaul 7.4.45. 3 CRD 11.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DG869.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 22.5.42. 6 SFTS 22.6.42. 73 Sqn 8.5.43. 5 AD to fit ASV radar (date?) 73 Sqn 31.12.43. Ansett 28.7.44. 2 AD 20.2.45. 6 SFTS 26.2.45. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1294 as VH-BCH issued 2.6.47 to New England Airways, Mascot, NSW. Extensively damaged when undercarriage collapsed on landing Kempsey, NSW 8.8.47. Cancelled 20.10.47.
    DG870.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 22.5.42. 8 SFTS 29.6.42. 71 Sqn 13.4.43. 2 AP 24.4.44. 6 SFTS 14.2.45. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1596 as VH-BMI issued 29.10.48 to New England Airways, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred 1.12.48 to Kingsford Smith Aviation Services, Mascot, NSW. Withdrawn from use 28.10.49. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    DG871.1 AD 29.3.42. 1 SFTS 27.6.42. 73 Sqn 7.4.43. 5 AD to fit ASV radar 3.12.43. 73 Sqn 18.12.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-F’ 11.8.44. Point Cook 30.10.44. Ansett 19.1.45. 1 AD 18.6.45. 67 Sqn 18.6.45. 11 EFTS storage 26.9.45. Sold 19.6.46. CoR No 1156 as VH-AYD issued 14.12.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 24.3.47 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Crashed Bulolo, NG, 24.5.47. Cancelled 26.8.47.
    DG876.Butler Air Transport 18.7.42. 2 AD 25.8.42. 6 SFTS 31.8.42. Guinea Airways 17.2.44. 6 SFTS 23.8.44. 5 SFTS 14.8.44. 10 EFTS storage 14.1.46. SOC 11.8.47.
    DG880.De Havilland 25.6.42. Butler Air Transport 14.7.42. 2 AD 10.8.42. 8 SFTS 23.8.42. 33 Sqn 10.10.42. Crashed Neilgarra (?) 23.10.42. 12 RSU 23.10.42. 10 RSU 17.12.42. ANA 31.12.42. 2 AP 15.9.43. GRS 24.9.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 5.6.44. 3 AD 29.11.44. APL 23.2.45. 5 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    DG895.2 AP 25.5.43. 6 SFTS 30.6.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. Guinea Airways 26.10.44. 6 SFTS 30.3.45. 67 Sqn (date?). Sold 21.10.46. CoR No 1205 as VH-AKU issued 24.1.47 to New England Airways Aerial Ambulance and Air Freight Service, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 4.5.48 to Butler Air Transport, Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 18.10.51 to Fawcett Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Bankstown, NSW. Sold 5.52 to South Coast Airways Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW for spares use only. Cancelled 8.7.52 as ‘Reduced to Spares’.
    DG896.2 AP 25.5.42. 8 SFTS 6.7.42. 73 Sqn 13.3.43. 5 AD to fit ASV radar 2.12.43. 73 Sqn 12.12.43. 67 Sqn 4.8.44. HQ Point Cook 20.10.44. Ansett 12.11.44. 1 AD 20.3.45. 67 Sqn ‘MK-X’ 4.4.45. 11 EFTS storage 10.9.45. CMU Benalla (date?) CMU Tocumwal 3.12.48. Sold to H.F Telford, 16.7.53.
    DG900.2 AD 23.6.42. 8 SFTS 5.7.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. Force landed on the beach in bad weather, Fraser Island, Qld, 7.11.43. Aircraft later damaged beyond repair by surf.
    DG901.De Havilland 2.6.42. 2 AD 6.7.42. 8 SFTS 30.7.42. 71 Sqn ‘PP-E’ 28.10.42. Forced Landing, Ballina, NSW, 18.11.43. 1 BAGS 20.11.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 71 Sqn 13.2.44. Ansett 22.3.44. 2 CRD 4.4.44. Converted to components 12.6.44.
    DG907.2 AP 25.5.42. 8 SFTS 5.8.42. 71 Sqn 7.5.43. 2 AP 6.5.44. Ansett 20.11.44. 2 AD 11.6.45. 6 SFTS 19.7.45. Sold 16.9.46. CoR No 1259 as VH-BGD issued 30.4.47 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use Lae 15.11.47 as ‘failed DCA glue test’. Cancelled 10.3.48 "Aircraft to be disposed of in parts".
    DG908.2 AP 25.5.42. 8 SFTS 5.8.42. 71 Sqn ‘PP-F’ 1.9.42. Struck telephone post outside aerodrome boundary on take-off and crashed, Lowood, Qld, 4.4.43. Converted to components 31-6-43.
    DG911.Point Cook 25.5.42. 1 AD 22.8.42. 1 RCF 15.9.42. Crashed Port Moresby, NG, 19.10.42. 15 RSU 28.10.42. Butler Air Transport 3.11.42. 2 AP 5.5.44. 71 Sqn 26.5.44. 2 AP 7.8.44. 8 SFTS 28.8.44. 2 AOS 25.12.44. 2 OUT 13.2.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    DG912.Point Cook (date?). 1 AD 22.8.42. 1 RCF 15.9.42. 1 RCS (date?). 7 AD 21.6.43. Ansett 8.9.44. 2 CRD 17.10.44. Converted to components 21.12.44.
    DG913.2 AP 25.5.42. 8 SFTS 5.8.42. 71 Sqn 1.9.42. Ansett overhaul 20.4.44. 2 AD 30.4.45. 200 SD Flight 3.5.45. 2 AD 26.11.45. 10 EFTS storage 17.12.46. Sold 8.8.47. CoR No 1535 as VH-BLP issued 10.3.48 to Baker Motors, Albury, NSW. Transferred 1.11.48 to J. McInnerney, c/- Greenfields Air Taxis, Albury, NSW. Registration suspended 6.8.51 to 15.10.51. operated as Albury Air Services .52. Withdrawn from use and cancelled 7.10.53.
    DG914.2 AP 25.5.42. USAAFIA 25.7.42. Accident (no details) 2.11.42. Butler Air Transport 1.12.42. 2 AP 2.7.43. GRS 9.8.43. Ground looped on take-off, Bairnsdale, Vic, 7.8.44. SOC 16.10.47.
    DG919.1 SFTS (date?). 6 SFTS 31.8.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. Ran off the runway into a quarry where 3 A/s bombs exploded, Mallacoota, Vic, 2.11.42.
    DG925.1 SFTS (date?). 2 AOS 7.9.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 4 SFTS 28.2.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DG927.Butler Air Transport 27.6.42. 2 AD 30.7.42. 8 SFTS 23.8.42. Force landed in the sea at the mouth of the Burrum River, 24 miles south-east of Bundaberg, Qld, 14.10.43.
    DG933.Butler Air Transport 27.6.42. 2 AD 22.7.42. 2 AP 19.11.42. 1 AOS 7.1.43. 2 AP 26.9.44. 3 AD 29.11.44. APL 19.3.45. 3 CRD 5.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DG934.1 SFTS (date?). 2 AOS 7.9.42. 3 AOS ‘34’ 8.12.43. Ground looped while landing Port Pirie, SA, 11.2.44. Guinea Airways 14.3.44. 6 SFTS 4.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 10 CU 21.10.44. 2 AOS 11.2.45. 12 LASU 11.4.45. 37 OBU 4.1.46. Converted to components 26.3.46.
    DG935.1 SFTS (date?). 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. Forced landing 5 miles from Kempsey, NSW, 12.1.43. 2 AP 28.4.44. 2 AD Test and Ferry Flight 15.1.45. SOC 24.6.48.
    DG936.1 SFTS (date?). 8 SFTS 2.8.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. Missing on operations from Coffs Harbour 27.11.43. F/O Neville Orr (pilot), Sgt R.L. Brooke (navigator) and P/O K Valentine (W/AG) all missing.
    DG940.1 SFTS (date?). 8 SFTS 13.7.42. Forced landing 2 miles west of Bundaberg, Qld, 7.9.44. 3 AD 4.1.45. APL 6.3.45. 3 CRD 30.11.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    DG941.1 SFTS (date?) 2 AOS 7.9.42. Forced landing (where/) 25.5.43. Ansett overhaul 14.7.43. 1 AD 13.12.43. 3 AOS 20.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 31.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    DJ113.Butler Air Transport 6.6.42. 2 AD 30.6.42. 1 AOS 13.7.42. 1 WAGS 12.4.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Taxying accident, Ballarat, Vic, 8.12.43. Guinea Airways (date?). 6 SFTS 28.7.44. 2 AOS 28.8.44. 3 CU 9.8.45. Damaged by tractor, Mascot, NSW, 18.9.45. 2 CRD 6.11.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    DJ115.Butler Air Transport 2.6.42. 2 AD 22.6.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. APL 4.4.45. 3 CRD 29.6.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ118.Butler Air Transport 2.6.42. 2 AD 18.6.42. 1 ANS 25.6.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 22.9.44. Ansett overhaul 15.1.45. 2 AD 6.8.45. CMU Evans Head 13.8.45. Sold 13.11.46. CoR No 1546 as VH-BDX issued 7.4.48 to G.A Michaelov, Edgecliff, NSW - later Darlinghurst NSW and South Melbourne, Vic. Flown to England and damaged in wheels-up landing at Elphick’s Farm, Horsmonden, near Cranbrook, Kent, after engine failure over the English Channel, 6.2.50. Accident Baincthun (?), France 18.11.50. Accident Le Touquet, France, 11.12.50. Remains believed to have been taken to Croydon Airport. Cancelled 6.8.51.
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  • DJ121.Butler Air Transport 2.6.42. 2 AD 28.6.42. 1 AOS 4.7.42. 1 ANS 22.2.43. 1 WAGS 8.3.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Damaged while low flying 5 miles north of Mount Gambier, SA, 13.8.44. DAP Parafield 23.4.45. Converted to components 13.8.45.
    DJ138.Montague Dispersal Area 31.8.42. 1 AOS 23.9.42. 73 Sqn 16.11.43. 5 AD 17.12.43. 73 Sqn 10.1.44. Crashed into sea off Nowra, NSW, 14.2.44. Crew rescued with P/O Blake (navigator) slightly injured.
    DJ141.Montague Dispersal Area 31.8.42. 1 AOS 23.9.42. 73 Sqn ‘NJ-R’ 26.12.43. Crashed into sea after starboard engine failure during convoy patrol 18 miles east of Nowra, NSW, 15.4.43 (Also reported as 11.4.43) Sgt L.H. Daines (W/Op) injured. P/O E.G Baldwin (pilot) P/O I Eldershaw (navigator) uninjured.
    DJ162.2 AP 27.7.42. 2 ANS 24.9.42. 1 AD 13.10.42. 1 RCS 20.10.42. 15 RSU 11.12.42. 1 RCS 2.4.43. 7 AD 16.6.43. Ansett 19.9.44. Converted to components 3.10.44.
    DJ164.Point Cook (date?). 8 SFTS 24.8.42. APL 14.4.45. 3 CRD 9.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ165.2 AP 27.7.42. 6 SFTS 12.10.42. 1 WAGS 26.7.44. Ansett 7.2.45. 1 AD 2.7.45. CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. Maryborough 28.2.46. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1244 as VH-AKI issued 14.3.47 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney, NSW. Departed Australia on ferry flight to UK for resale 24.3.47. Cancelled on transfer to UK 29.4.47. Registered G-AJSD 6.5.47 to British and Continental (Air Charter & Freight) Ltd, Southend. CofA No 9333 issued 9.5.47. Sold 8.3.48 and registered 25.11.48 to Gustavus E. Weber, Hugh A. Green and Anthony F.Weber, Southend. C of A lapsed 8.5.48. Scrapped, Southend .49. Cancelled 23.7.50 as withdrawn from use.
    DJ166.2 AP 27.7.42. 1 AOS 23.9.42. Undercarriage collapsed on take-off, Nabiac, NSW, 12.11.42. 2 AP 25.11.42. SOC 23.10.43.
    DJ171.Point Cook 31.8.42. 6 SFTS 21.9.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-D’ ‘MK-H’ 13.10.42. Ansett 15.10.44. 1 AD 9.1.45. 67 Sqn 25.1.45. 11 EFTS storage 26.9.45. Damaged by severe storm, Benalla, Vic, 26.2.46.
    DJ172.Point Cook 31.8.42. 6 SFTS 21.9.42. Ansett 25.4.45. 1 AD 29.10.45. 1 CU 24.1.46. CMU Wagga Wagga 4.3.46. Sold 10.12.46. CoR No 1539 as VH-BKL issued 14.4.48 to East-West Airlines Ltd, Tamworth, NSW. Substantially damaged after forced landing in orchard at Stanthorpe, Qld, 5.12.50 (Pilot & 2 pax unhurt). Cancelled 2.3.51.
    DJ173.2 AP 27.7.42. 1 AOS 19.10.42. 1 ANS 22.2.43. 1 WAGS 8.3.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Guinea Airways 20.3.44. 6 SFTS 6.11.44. 6 CU 14.12.44. 5 CRD 17.12.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DJ175.Point Cook (date?). 8 SFTS 10.8.42. 66 Sqn ‘JN-E’ 2.7.43. Crash landed in bad weather with radio trouble, Fraser Island, Qld, 7.11.43.
    DJ176.Point Cook (date?). 8 SFTS 10.8.42. GRS 30.7.43. 1 CRD 21.9.45. 1 SD 24.8.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    DJ177.Point Cook (date?). 8 SFTS 10.8.42. 88 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. Maryborough 28.2.46. Sold 4.11.46. CoR No 1566 as VH-BBZ issued 29.7.48 to J.C. Vine, Maryborough, Qld. Transferred 7.9.48 to Sepik River Trading Co., Madang, NG. Operated by B.Hall, Halls Charter, Madang, NG. Transferred 1.1.49 to QANTAS Empire Airways, Sydney, NSW (QANTAS bought Halls Charter). Crashed after cross-wind take off at Kerowagi, NG, 11.5.49. Cancelled 11.5.49.
    DJ188.1 SFTS (date?). 8 SFTS 10.8.42. Maryborough 29.1.45. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.2.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    DJ213.2 AP 11.9.42. GRS 27.10.42. Crash landed in fog, 2 miles north of Rosedale, Vic, 24/02/45.
    DJ214.Butler Air Transport 4.9.42. 2 AD 5.10.42. 1 AOS 27.10.42. 2 AP 9.11.42. 1 AOS 11.12.42. 1 WAGS 1.2.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. CMU Mount Ganbier (date?). 2 OTU 13.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    DJ215.Ansett 4.9.42. 2 AD 20.10.42. GRS 25.11.42. SOC 16.10.47.
    DJ223.2 AP 11.9.42. GRS 27.10.42. Force landed when lost (where?) 3.3.43. 2 AD 8.3.43. Ansett 2.8.43. 2 AP 15.11.43. GRS 16.11.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 5.6.44. Ansett 29.1.45. 2 CRD 13.11.45. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    DJ224.2 AP 11.9.42. USAAC 7.12.42. 3 AD 4.9.44. Maryborough 30.4.45. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1246 as VH-BAD issued 24.3.47 to Inland Air Service Pty Ltd, Kedron, Qld. Withdrawn from use .47. Cancelled 19.12.47.
    DJ225.Butler Air Transport 4.9.42. 2 AD 22.9.42. 8 SFTS 3.12.43. CMU Narranderra 27.7.45. Sold 13.10.47. CoR No 1771 as VH-BMP issued 20.3.51 to Charter Aviation Service (Australasia), Bankstown, NSW - later Lae, NG. Transfer 2.2.53 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Cancelled 1.8.57 as withdrawn from use.
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  • DJ226.Butler Air Transport 11.9.42. 12 RSU 22.11.42. 1 RCS 11.12.42. 12 RSU 25.4.43. 7 AD 6.5.43. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    DJ227.Butler Air transport 4.9.42. 2 AD 3.10.42. 8 SFTS 26.10.42. 66 Sqn 24.8.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. APL 21.5.45. 5 CRD 5.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ228.Ansett 4.9.42. 2 AD 3.10.42. 8 SFTS 30.10.42. Crashed during night flying, 8 miles north of Bundaberg, Qld, 25.2.43.
    DJ231.Ansett 4.9.42. Crashed on take-off, Normanton, Qld, 20.10.42. 12 RSU 23.10.42. APL 28.12.42. 3 AD 18.2.44. SHQ Laverton 2.8.44. 1 AD 24.9.45. CFS 31.10.45. 1 AD Test and ferry Sqn 12.2.46. CFS 20.3.46. 1 CU 23.4.46. 1 APU 14.6.46. GTS Wagga 28.11.46. SOC 24.2.48.
    DJ232.1 SFTS (date?). 6 SFTS 25.8.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-J’ 31.10.42. Struck fence on take- off, Yanakie, Vic, 17.8.43. 7 AD 3.9.43. Was to be Instl No 10 but SOC 22.8.44.
    DJ233.1 SFTS (date?). 2 AOS 25.8.42. 3 AOS 10.12.43. Landed downwind, overshot into bomb dump, Port Pirie, Sa, 25.1.44.
    DJ234.1 SFTS (date?). 2 ANS 17.9.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU (date?). SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ235.1 SFTS (date?). 6 SFTS 25.8.42. Ground looped when landing down wind, Colombo SLG, SA, 29.1.44. Guinea Airways 28.2.44. 6 SFTS 19.2.45. RN Bankstown 14.5.45. 723 Sqn, Nowra, 5.45. 723 Sqn Detachment Schofields, NSW, 6.8.45. Returned to RAAF charge 29.1.46. (possible accident during RN period). SOC 19.1.46.
    DJ236.1 SFTS 5.10.42. 8 SFTS 3.12.43. While stationary, struck by taxying DJ416, Bundaberg, Qld, 23.3.44. Crashed after port mainplane failure, near Woodgate, 16 miles south-east of Bundaberg, Qld, 8.12.44.
    DJ237.1 SFTS (date?). 1 ANS 25.8.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. 87 OBU 1.6.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ245.Point Cook (date?). 6 SFTS 31.8.42. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DJ246.Point Cook (date?). 6 SFTS 31.8.42. DAP Parafield 17.7.45. 5 CRD 28.9.45. Converted to components 18.10.45.
    DJ287.Montague Dispersal Area (date?). 8 SFTS 4.10.42. 71 Sqn ‘PP-K’, 28.10.42. 5 AD 28.10.43. 71 Sqn 11.11.43. 2 AP 28.4.44. GRS 12.2.45. Sold 11.2.46. CoR No 1617 as VH-BLS issued 5.8.48 to H.A. McDonald, Balmain, NSW. Withdrawn from use 4.8.49. Cancelled 6.8.51. New CoR No 2269 issued 12.4.55 to West Darling Air Service Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Withdrawn from use and cancelled 7.10.55 at owner's request.
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  • DJ288.Point Cook 31.8.42. 6 SFTS 21.9.42. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DJ290.Point Cook 31.8.42. 6 SFTS 21.9.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-F’ 16.4.43. Ditched in Bass Strait 22.7.43.
    DJ291.Point Cook (date?). 2 ANS 17.9.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 19.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ320.2 AP 12.10.42. 4 SFTS 7.12.42. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ321.2 AP 12.10.42. 4 SFTS 7.12.42. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ322.Butler Air Transport (date?). 1 RIMU 26.10.42. 44 RDF Wing 26.2.43. 6 CF 13.4.43. 7 RSU 15.6.43. 6 CF 26.6.43. 4 RSU 27.7.43. 6 CF 9.8.43. Ansett 6.3.44. 2 AP 23.10.44. 8 SFTS 26.10.44. Maryborough 29.1.45. CMU Narradine 17.6.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1129 as VH-AYI issued 15.11.46 to Anson Holding Co., Inverell, NSW. Transferred 18.7.47 to East-West Airlines Pty Ltd, Tamworth NSW (Public Company successor to Anson Holding Co). Named 'Smithy'. Transferred 12.3.51 to W. Campbell-Hicks, Campbell-Hicks Airways, Condobolin, NSW. Transferred 17.7.51 to Air Centre (Narrabri) Pty Ltd, Narrabri, NSW. Transferred 4.4.52 to Robby's Aircraft Repair Co Ltd, Parafield, S.A. Re-registered VH-RAU 17.4.52. Withdrawn from use and cancelled 26.10.54. Scrapped Parafield, SA.
    DJ323.2 AD 30.10.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 4 SFTS 14.4.44. 89 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ324.2 AP 29.9.42. 8 SFTS 3.12.42. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 27.12.43. Struck tree tops during low flying exercise, Boonaroo Point, 65 miles south-east of Bundaberg, Qld, 2.1.44. APL 7.5.45. 3 CRD 11.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ325.2 AP 29.9.42. 33 Sqn 9.11.42. 12 RSU 28.11.42. 33 Sqn 6.12.43. 7 AD 5.5.43. Ansett 27.9.44. 1 CRD 8.12.44. Converted to components 27.4.45.
    DJ326.2 AP 29.9.42. 12 RSU 22.11.42. 1 RCS 11.12.42. 15 RSU 2.1.43. 12 RSU 11.1.43. Ansett 1.10.43. 2 AP 8.11.43. 71 Sqn 16.12.43. 2 AP 7.8.44. 8 SFTS 5.9.44. GRS 30.4.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    DJ327.2 AP 29.9.42. 4 SFTS 16.11.42. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ330.Point Cook 31.8.42. 6 SFTS 9.9.42. 71 Sqn 7.4.43. Undercarriage collapsed on take-off, Lowood, Qld, 13.10.43. 67 sqn ‘MK-J’ 4.8.44. Ansett 20.11.44. 1 AD 27.2.45. 67 Sqn 27.2.45. 11 EFTS storage 26.9.45. Damaged in heavy storm, Benalla, Vic, 25.2.46. Converted to components 27.5.46.
    DJ336.Point Cook (date?). 6 SFTS 14.9.42. 73 Sqn 21.4.43. 5 AD 12.12.43. 73 Sqn 22.12.43. 67 Sqn 3.8.44. Point Cook 30.10.44. Ansett 18.3.45. 1 AD 10.9.45. 1 AD Test and Ferry Sqn 29.10.45. Sold 8.6.46. CoR No 1186 as VH-BBC issued 7.2.47 to G.K. Bolton, (trading as Cairns Flying Service) Cairns, Qld. Sold 11.47 to Guinea Air Traders, Sydney, NSW. Withdrawn from service and registration suspended 19.12.47. Restored 24.3.48 to Australian Air Traders, Sydney, NSW . Withdrawn from use, Sydney 23.3.49. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    DJ339.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Point Cook, 21.9.42. 2 ANS 28.9.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Force landed after starboard engine failure, 28 miles south-east of Kimba, SA, 7.1.44.
    DJ340.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Point Cook, 21.9.42. 2 ANS 28.9.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 19.3.44. 87 OBU 22.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ349.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Point Cook 5.10.42. 2 ANS 5.10.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 3 AOS 10.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ350.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Point Cook 5.10.42. 8 SFTS 5.10.42. 71 Sqn 28.10.42. 2 AP 29.5.44. Ansett 25.1.45. 3 CU 27.3.45. Ansett overhaul 21.5.45. 3 CRD 13.11.45. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    DJ351.Montague Dispersal Area, 31.8.42. Point Cook 28.9.42. 8 SFTS 4.10.42. 71 Sqn 28.10.42. 2 AP 6.5.44. 2 AD 5.2.45. SOC 2.11.48.
    DJ352.Point Cook 19.9.42. Armament School 24.9.42. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Converted to components 28.2.47.
    DJ353.Point Cook 21.9.42. 2 ANS 24.9.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-M’ ‘MK-W’ 2.7.43. Struck by taxying DJ171, Laverton, Vic, 2.6.44. 1 CRD 10.9.45. 1 SD 5.7.46. SOC 16.5.46.
    DJ354.Point Cook 12.10.42. 6 SFTS 7.12.42. SOC 30.5.47.
    DJ355.Point Cook 19.10.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. 1 ANS 21.1.43. 1 AOS 3.2.43. 1 CF 22.2.43. 1 WAGS 14.6.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier (date?). 2 OTU 6.2.46. Sold 14.8.47.
    DJ386.Point Cook 21.9.42. 2 ANS 28.9.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ387.Point Cook 21.9.42. 54 (RAF) Sqn 26.9.42. 2 AD 22.1.43. 5 AD 30.5.43. Survey Flight ‘SU-M’ 10.6.43. Undercarriage collapsed when landing, Lowood, Qld, 7.6.45. 3 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 8.1.46.
    DJ416.Point Cook 5.10.42. 8 SFTS 3.12.42. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. Taxied into EG236, Bundaberg, Qld, 13.3.44. APL 15.1.45. 3 CRD 20.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ417.Point Cook 5.10.42. 1 AOS 30.11.42. 1 ANS 21.1.43. 1 AOS 22.2.43. 2 CF 5.4.43. 8 SFTS 4.6.43. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. Crashed with undercarriage malfunction, Bundaberg, Qld 7.11.43. APL 8.5.45. 3 CRD 9.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    DJ421.NOT A VALID ALLOCATED SERIAL - Serial given in a pilot’s log book as serving with GRS between 10/11/43 and 10/02/44 but believed to be a misprint for DJ431 as DJ421 was not an allocated serial, lying in a ‘blackout block’ of serials not used so as to disguise production figures. The other possible aircraft, EG421, did not serve with GRS.
    DJ430.Point Cook 28.9.42. 2 ANS 19.10.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ431.Point Cook 5.10.42. GRS 30.11.42. 1 CRD 19.9.45. 1 SD 5.7.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    DJ437.Point Cook 28.9.42. 1 AD 8.10.42. 1 RCF 20.10.42. Struck stores when landing on overgrown airstrip, Goodenough Island, NG, 3.12.42.
    DJ445.2 AP 13.11.42. 2 AOS 21.12.42. 3 AOS 10.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ446.2 AP 13.11.42. 2 AOS 21.12.42. Struck stump on take-off, Mount Gambier, SA, 21.6.43. 1 CRD 1.2.44. Converted to components 27.4.44.
    DJ447.2 AP 13.11.42. 5 CF 16.12.42. Damaged Merauke, NG, 14.8.43. 5 CU ‘KF-L’ 9.8.45. Ground looped, Cairns, Qld, 26.11.45. 6 CRD 3.12.45. SOC 12.12.45.
    DJ448.2 AP 13.11.42. 2 ANS 21.12.42. 67 Sqn ‘MK-B’ 28.12.42. Forced landing after engine failure, near Mount Gambier, SA, 29.1.44. Ansett 20.4.45. 1 AD 24.9.45. CMU Western Junction 26.4.46. Sold 15.8.46. CoR No 1245 as VH-BBB issued 3.4.47 to W.T. Dwyer, West Brunswick, Vic - later Elsternwick, Vic. Transferred 22.7.52 to Flinders Island Airlines Pty Ltd, Moorabbin Airport, Cheltenham, Vic. Withdrawn from use Moorabbin, Vic & cancelled 11.4.56. Last reported derelict at Moorabbin.
    DJ459.2 AP 30.11.42. 1 AOS 27.1.43. Crashed on landing Evans Head, NSW, 23.12.43. APL overhaul 21.2.44. 3 AD 9.3.45. 6 SFTS 26.3.45. Sold 19.6.46. CoR No 1180 as VH-AJJ issued 18.2.47 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd., Lae, NG. Failed DCA glue test at Lae and cancelled 15.11.47. SOC as reduced to spares, Lae 10.3.48.
    DJ460.2 AP 30.11.42. 4 SFTS 8.2.43. Taxied into W2045, Geraldton, WA, 24.2.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ474.Montague Dispersal Area 29.10.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 2 AP 6.8.44. 2 AD 5.2.45. SOC 2.11.48.
    DJ475.Montague Dispersal Area 29.10.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 1 ANS 22.2.42. 1 WAGS 8.3.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier, (date?), 2 OTU storage 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    DJ476.2 AP 14.12.42. RIMU 15.3.43. 3 CU 27.12.43. 1 RSU 17.2.44. 3 CU 20.2.44. 2 AP 4.8.44. Ansett 30.1.45. 2 CRD 18.1.46. Damaged by hailstorm 22.4.46. Sold 10.12.46. CoR No 1295 as VH-BDD issued 3.6.47 to Thiess Bros Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Withdrawn from use 30.11.50. Restored 23.8.51. Transferred 12.12.52 to Goilala Air Service, Tapini, NG. Forced landed and abandoned, Embessa, NG, 4.2.53 (Pilot & 11 pax unhurt). Cancelled 14.5.53.
    DJ497.2 AP 30.11.42. 1 AOS 27.1.43. Abandoned and crashed, Forest Hill, 12 miles south of Wagga Wagga, NSW, 14.7.43.
    DJ498.2 AP 30.11.42. 1 AOS 1.2.43. 2 AP 8.9.44. 3 AD 30.12.44. APL 19.2.45. 3 AD 5.10.45. CMU Evans Head 22.10.45. CMU Narranderra 15.3.46. Sold 17.7.46. CoR No 1072 as VH-AVZ issued 16.9.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 4.11.46 to Interstate Air Services, Sydney. Crashed 22.11.46 at Port Moresby NG. Cancelled 9.1.48.
    DJ503.2 AP 30.11.42. 8 SFTS 5.3.43. 66 Sqn ‘JN-X’ 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. Forced landing, South Bingera, 10 miles south of Bundaberg, Qld, 3.9.44. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 19.5.47.
    DJ504.Montague Storage 16.11.42. 6 SFTS 7.12.42. Forced landing ¼ mile south of Colombo SLG, SA, 27.6.44. Guinea Airways overhaul 6.3.45. Sold 17.9.45. CoR No 1256 as VH-AJK issued 14.3.47 to E.E. McIllree, Sydney, NSW. Sold to E.A. Wild, Singapore and departed 24.3.47. Cancelled from Register 16.7.47. Registered VR-SCI .4.47 to E.A. Wild, 5 Crescent St., Katong, Singapore. Sold to Burma and registered XY-ABD to Airways Burma Ltd 7.47. No further information.
    DJ505.Montague Storage 29.10.42. GRS 14.12.42. SOC 16.10.47.
    DJ506.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. 1 WAGS (date?). Crashed and ground looped on aerodrome, Ballarat, Vic, 21.10.43. Ansett 10.5.44. 1 AD 1.8.44. 8 SFTS 14.8.44. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    DJ507.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 6 SFTS ‘5’ 21.12.42. Damaged, taxying over soft ground, Mallala, SA, 17.10.43. 6 SFTS 21.5.45. SOC 30.5.47.
    DJ508.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 6 SFTS ‘88’ 21.12.42. Collided with AW846 while approaching to land on converging courses, Mallala, SA, 26.5.43. 5 CRD 12.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    DJ514.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. 1 WAGS 12.4.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Converted to components 8.5.46.
    DJ515.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 1 CF 22.2.43. Ansett 26.4.43. 1 CF 14.6.43. 1 AD 29.6.43. 1 WAGS 26.7.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. SOC 21.2.47.
    DJ516.Montague Storage 29.10.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. 4 SFTS 19.3.44. SOC 28.2.47.
    DJ549.Montagu Storage 29.10.42. 1 AD 21.12.42. 1 RCS 8.1.43. 2 AP 5.6.43. 1 ANS 7.6.43. 1 WAGS 12.9.43. 2 AOS ‘49’ 20.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier (date?). 2 OTU storage 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    EF839.2 AP 14.12.42. GRS 15.3.43. 1 CRD (date?). SOC 3.7.47.
    EF858.2 AP 14.12.42. AAS 29.3.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 26.2.47.
    EF896.NOT A VALID SERIAL - Log book entry reported for GRS between 10.11.43 and 10.02.44 but British records show that this serial fell in a ‘black-out’ block and was not issued for an Anson or any other aircraft. Suggest misprint for DG896 although this aircraft is not reported as having been allocated to GRS.
    EF917.2 AP 14.12.42. GRS 15.3.43. 1 CRD (when?). SOC 3.7.47.
    EF918.2 AP 14.12.42. AAS 12.4.43. Ansett 1.5.44. 1 AD 26.12.44. 6 SFTS 16.1.45. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1513 as VH-BFY issued 19.3.48 to New England Airways, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred 18.8.48 to Aircraft Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Transferred 12.1.49 to Queensland Airlines Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Withdrawn from service 18.3.49. Cancelled 6.8.51. NOTES: 1. Pencilled note dated 20.9.51 states that ownership was transferred to R.W Brandon, Mount Nelson, Qld, but aircraft was not restored.
    EF919.2 AP 14.12.42. 4 SFTS 8.2.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    EF920.2 AP 28.12.42. GRS 12.4.43. Forced landing in a paddock, Bairnsdale, Vic, 16.9.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    EF921.2 AP 28.12.42. 3 CF 5.4.43. 6 CU 7.6.44. 4 RSU 30.9.44. 6 CU 29.10.44. 2 AP 3.1.45. 2 RSU 14.1.45. Ansett 19.6.45. 2 RSU 18.7.45. 2 CRD 31.8.45. Converted to components 6.3.46.
    EF922.2 AP 28.12.42. 1 RCS 5.5.43. 3 AD 26.6.43. 8 SFTS 10.11.43. Forced landing after engine failure, Meadowville SLG, Qld, 15.8.44. 3 CRD 18.6.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    EF923.2 AP 14.12.42. 2 ANS 17.3.43. 3 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    EF924.2 AP 28.12.42. 1 AD for DCAS use 28.4.43. 42 RDF Wing 22.6.43. 12 RSU 26.8.43. 5 CU 23.12.43. APL 29.12.43. 8 SFTS 20.3.44. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    EF954.2 AP 28.12.42. 6 SFTS “40” 3.4.44. SOC 30.5.47. Remains of the aircraft were located in Mallala area in 1984 and donated to the South Australian Aviation Museum by Mr Reg Franks. It has been rebuilt with parts from a number of other aircraft, particularly AW965 (VH-FIA) and is displayed at the Museum.
    EF955.2 AP 28.12.42. GRS 12.4.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    EF960.2 AD 22.2.43. 2 AP 5.4.43. 1 ANS 15.5.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 14.4.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    EF961.2 AD 22.2.43. 1 RCS 14.5.43. 13 ARD 17.9.43. 1 RCS 28.9.43. Crashed on landing, Berry Strip, NT 26.10.43. 9 CU 4.11.43. 2 AP 9.4.44. Butler Air Transport 18.4.44. Ansett 9.5.44. 1 AD 8.1.45. 2 AD Test and Ferry Flight 25.1.46. 1 ASD 21.9.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    EF962.2 AD 22.2.43. GRS 2.6.43. 1 CRD 17.9.45. 1 SD 5.7.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    EF977.2 AD 22.2.43. 2 AP 5.4.43. 5 AD 26.5.43. Survey Flt ‘SU-B’ 6.43. 3 CRD 8.10.45. 3 AD (date?), Sold 10.3.50.
    EF989.2 AD 15.2.43. 6 SFTS 12.7.43. Guinea Airways 3.4.45. 6 SFTS (date?). Sold 14.8.46. Reservation as VH-AJL for E.E. McIlree, Sydney, NSW, 5.3.47 but not taken up. CoR No 1569 as VH-BLF issued 12.8.48 to Aircraft Disposals, c/- J Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Withdrawn from service when C of A expired 11.8.49. Cancelled 6.8.51. New CoR No 2916 as VH-BLF issued 12.3.56 to Self-Drive Cars Pty Ltd, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred .56 to Sepal Pty Ltd , Sydney, NSW. Operated by Adastra Aerial Surveys. Cancelled 18.7.62 by order of DGCA after a two week extension of the general grounding instruction. Transferred to DCA Fire Service, Mascot Airport, Sydney, NSW for fire practice, mid-.64. Burnt out frame of VH-BLF still visible in the fir practice area mid-.69. Note: A letter from Alan Thomas of the Camden Museum of Aviation dated 10 April 2005 quoted on the Adastra Aerial Surveys Website states: "Originally Moorabbin Air Museum were going to acquire an Anson from Adastra but when they acquired VH-FIA down in Melbourne they had no further interest in an Adastra Anson. This left the way open for Father (Harold Thomas - founder of the museum) and I to acquire VH-AGA. At the same time VH-BLF was at Mascot with no future owner so we were allowed to remove any parts we thought useful. We removed one Cheetah, the main instrument panel, throttle box, undercarriage fairings and many small items. Before we took control of AGA a strong wind went through Mascot and AGA and BLF actually hit each other on the aileron and trailing edge of opposite wings. So we removed the undamaged trailing edge and aileron from BLF and fitted it to AGA. So some pieces of BLF still exist today with the engine, panel and throttle box on display in the Museum. We gave the other airframe pieces to Colin Wear, now deceased, who was going to build a flying Anson, but the project literally never got off the ground and he eventually sold the BLF parts to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook."
    EG127.2 AD 8.2.43. 1 RCS 12.5.43. 15 ARD 12.11.43. 8 CU 8.2.44. 2 AP 30.6.44. APL 22.11.44. Converted to components 19.9.45.
    EG128.2 AD 8.2.43. 1 RCS 12.5.43. 2 AP 8.11.43. Ansett 14.12.43. 2 AP 17.8.44. 5 AD 18.8.44. 5 SFTS 10.9.44. Mascot 1.46. 1 FTS (date?). CMU Cootamundra 18.4.46. Sold 4.9.47. CoR No 1791 as VH-BMM issued 25.5.51 to Self-Drive Cars Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 18.6.51 to Amphibious Airways Ltd, Richmond, NSW, Transferred 1.6.54 to Goilala Air Services, Tapini, NG. Cancelled 20.2.56 'Spars in deteriorated condition'.
  • Images of EG128.
  • EG236.2 AP 19.4.43. 66 Sqn 4.8.43. 8 SFTS 27.12.43. Overshot into fence, Bundaberg, Qld, 28.12.43. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    EG319.2 AP 5.7.43. 15 ARD 26.11.43. 9 CU 3.12.43. 2 AP 20.6.44. 8 SFTS 16.10.44. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 7.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    EG367.2 AP 2.8.43. 5 AD 25.3.44. 73 Sqn 6.4.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-Y’ 16.8.44. 1 WAGS 19.2.45. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 19.5.47.
    EG392.2 AP 12.7.43. 8 SFTS 6.9.44. CMU Narranderra 17.6.45. Sold to E. Wilkinson, Inverell, NSW, 19.8.46.
    EG395.1 AP 5.7.43. GRS 27.12.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 5.6.44. Ansett 29.1.45. 2 RSU 18.7.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    EG415.2 AP 12.7.43. GRS 1.11.43. 71 Sqn 23.6.44. 2 AP 7.8.44. 5 AD 21.8.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-Z’ 14.1.45. 11 EFTS storage - taxied into covered gunpit, Benalla, Vic, on delivery by I AD Ferry Flight 29.9.45. SOC 4.2.46.
    EG417.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 CU 4.9.44. Held by 3 CU for use by Radio Physical Laboratory for experimental work 25.5.45. 2 RSU 19.7.45. 2 CRD (date?). 2 AD 11.2.46. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    EG418.2 AP 23.8.43. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 25.7.48.
    EG421.2 AP 16.8.43. 4 SFTS ‘21’ 17.1.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold to Western Australian Airlines 24.3.47.
    EG422.1 AP 13.9.43. CFS 22.10.43. Point Cook 20.9.44. Sold 4.9.47. CoR No 1836 as VH-BMD issued 10.10.51 to Amphibious Airways Ltd, Rabaul, New Britain, NG. Transferred 11.12.52 to Constructors (Engineering & Industrial) Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Transferred 2.2.54 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Crashed on landing with 14 passengers (no injuries), Embi, NG, 18.12.54. Cancelled 20.9.55.
    EG425.2 AP 16.8.43. Butler Air Transport 19.9.43. 2 AP 10.1.44. 5 AD 12.1.44. 67 Sqn 22.1.44. Damaged in gale, Laverton, Vic, 14.2.44. Undercarriage collapsed taxying, Laverton, Vic, 28.5.44. 1 CRD 4.6.44. Ansett 15.8.44. 1 AD 3.10.44. 6 SFTS 11.10.44. 1 WAGS 12.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 10.1.47. Reservation as VH-AGY for I.R. Burgess, Adelaide, SA. Painted as such at Ballarat 3.47 but not taken up. CoR No 1500 as VH-BJN issued 27.11.47 to Tradair Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Transferred .50 to Robby's Aircraft Repair Co, Parafield, SA. Ferried to Parafield but not put into service. C of A expired 8.2.50. Cancelled 6.8.51. Scrapped Parafield (date?).
    EG426.2 AP 16.8.43. 71 Sqn 6.6.44. 2 AP 7.8.44. 5 AD 4.9.44. 7 SFTS 2.10.44. SoP 10.1.45. 10 EFTS storage 25.1.46. SOC 11.8.47.
    EG430.2 AP 12.7.43. 5 AD 12.12.43. 73 Sqn 30.12.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-J’ 16.8.44. 1 WAGS 6.2.45. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 2.3.47.
    EG446.Butler Air Transport 3.8.43. 2 AD 15.11.43. GRS 27.12.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 6.8.44. 5 AD 28.8.44. 5 SFTS 2.10.44. Crashed (reportedly after wing fell off after take-off) 2 miles north of Moruya SLG, NSW, 1.11.45.
    EG465.2 AP 16.8.43. 8 SFTS 10.1.44. 1 WAGS 26.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 25.2.48.
    EG466.Butler Air Transport 3.8.43. 2 AP 22.10.43. 1 ANS 1.11.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 4 SFTS 19.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    EG473.2 AP 16.8.43. ANA 23.8.43. 2 AP 6.3.44. 3 AD 7.3.44. 9 CU 20.8.44. 15 ARD 20.10.44. APL 25.11.44. 3 AD 10.9.45. 3 CRD 17.9.45. 2 AD 18.2.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    EG474.2 AP 2.8.43. 8 SFTS 4.1.44. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    EG487.2 AP 12.7.43. 3 AD 9.2.44. 71 Sqn 22.2.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-T’ 3.8.44. Landed with undercarriage partially retracted, Laverton, Vic, 22.7.45. 1 CRD 14.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    EG489.2 AP 12.7.43. 5 AD 1.2.44. 71 Sqn 11.2.44. 67 Sqn ‘MK-A’ 3.8.44. 1 CRD 18.9.45. 1 SD 5.7.46. SOC 3.7.47.
    EG494.2 AP 12.7.43. 9 CU 3.12.43. 15 ARD 4.4.44. 2 AP 25.5.44. Ansett 30.1.45. 2 AD 7.1.46. Sold 10.12.46. CoR No 1438 as VH-BFM issued 12.12.47 to U Drive Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Withdrawn from use 11.12.48. Cancelled 6.8.51. Restored 22.4.55 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Cancelled 14.9.56 (no reason given).
  • Images of EG494.
  • EG503.2 AP 16.8.43. 1 AOS 24.1.44. 73 Sqn 27.5.44. SoP 28.7.44. 2 RSU 15.2.45. CMU Evans Head 23.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    EG504.2 AP 12.7.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-S’ 3.12.43. Collided with refuelling tanker, Warrnambool, Vic, 23.5.44. 11 EFTS storage 21.9.45. SOC 12.5.48.
    EG530.2 AP 16.8.43. Butler Air Transport 19.11.43. 2 AP 21.1.44. Survey Flight 7.3.44. 3 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 5.2.46.
    EG531.2 AP 2.8.43. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. Forced landing after engine failure, south of Walkaway Bombing Range, WA, 19.7.44. 4 CRD 31.7.44. Converted to components 16.8.44.
    EG533.2 AP 16.8.43. 8 SFTS 10.1.44. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    EG534.2 AP 16.8.43. Butler Air Transport 18.10.43. 2 AP 26.11.43. GRS 3.1.44. 3 WAGS 28.2.44. 5 AD 12.7.44. 3 WAGS 7.8.44. 1 WAGS 13.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    EG535.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 AOS 4.1.44. 5 CRD (date?). SOC 20.8.47.
    EG552.2 AD 12.7.43. GRS 20.12.43. 3 WAGS 28.2.44. 5 AD to fit ASH radar 28.8.44. Ansett 19.5.45. 2 RSU 18.7.45. 2 CRD 31.8.45. Converted to components 6.3.46.
    EG556.2 AP 12.7.43. Survey Flight 22.9.43. 3 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 5.2.46.
    EG591.2 AP 16.8.43. Butler Air Transport 18.10.43. 2 AP 13.12.43. 5 AD 23.12.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-E’ 12.8.44. Collided with moving tractor scoop, Laverton, Vic, 25.6.45. 1 CRD 30.7.45. SOC 22.1.46.
    EG701.2 AP 26.4.43. 1 AD 22.6.43. 67 Sqn 11.8.43. 73 Sqn 22.8.43. 71 Sqn 9.9.43. 1 AD 4.10.43. Special Duty Flight to test radar equipment 28.10.43. 1 APU for radar tests 10.1.44. SHQ Laverton for navigation tests (date?). 1 AD 1.10.45. SOC 19.5.48.
    EG702.2 AP 26.4.43. GRS ‘702’ (date?). Ground looped after landing, Bairnsdale, Vic, 27.4.45. 1 CRD 21.9.45. SOC 2.5.46.
    K8713.2 AP 18.11.40. 1 SFTS 29.11.40. Overran runway Werribee RLG, Vic, 13.3.41. 1 AD 14.3.41. 1 SFTS 3.6.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Ansett Essendon, Vic, 10.9.43. 1 AD 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 20.3.44. Storage 29.1.45. Allocated as U/E 9.2 - 4.6.45 and 2.7 to 30.7.45. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. Auth to SOC 16.5.46. Action complete 18.12.47.
    L9161.1 AD 6.12.38. 14 Sqdn 27.2.39. 1 SFTS 9.4.40. 2 AP 15.9.40. 1 SFTS 14.10,40. 1 AD 2.9.41. 2 AOS 14.11.41.. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 15.5.44. Ansett, Mascot, NSW 12.10.44. 2 AD 30.4.45. FL in bad whr short of fuel, 2 m NE of Port Augusta, SA, 12.5.45. 3 AOS 21.5.45. Approved to convert to components 18.7.45. 5 CRD 20.7.45.
    L9162.1 AD 6.12.38. 1 FTS 7.3.39. 1 GRS 29.4.40. Struck by N1332 in gale Pt Cook, Vic, 7.6.40. 2 SFTS "A" 10.7.40. Mid-air collision with N4876 5m SW of Brocklesby, NSW, 29.9.40 (Pick-a-back ldg). 1 AD 1.10.40. Converted to Instructional Airframe No 4 19.11.40. Approved to convert to components 20.6.43. ‘Ansons L9162 and N4876 of 2 SFTS collided when N4876 came down on top of L9162 in the air near Brocklesby, NSW, on 29 September 1940. The aircraft remained stuck together. The crew of the lower aircraft (Leading Aircraftsman [LAC] Jack Hewson and LAC Hugh Fraser) and the observer from the upper aircraft (LAC Ian Sinclair) baled out. The pilot of N4876 (LAC Leonard Fuller) managed to fly the two aircraft and belly land them, still joined, safely, in a paddock belonging to Mr T. Murphy approximately 7 miles south west of Brocklesby . L9162 was written off but N4876 was repaired and continued to fly until the end of the war. LAC Fuller went on to fly with the RAAF in Europe and won the DFM. Unfortunately he was killed at East Sale in 1944 when he was hit by a bus while he was riding a bicycle.
    L9163.1 AD 6.12.38. 25 Sqdn 24.3.39. 1 FTS 16.4.40. Stalled onto concrete mixer on night approach Point Cook, Vic, 30.4.40. Engineering School 26.6.40. Converted to Instructional Airframe No 3 28.10,40. Converted to components 10.4.47.
    LT132.2 AP 26.4.43. 66 Sqn 4.8.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. 1 WAGS 26.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 26.5.47.
    LT134.2 AP 10.5.43. GRS 9.11.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 7.8.44. 5 AD 17.8.44. SOC 24.2.48.
    LT159.1 AP 17.5.43. 1 AD 29.6.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-F’ 30.7.43. Ditched after engine failure, Tamboon Inlet, Vic, 8.5.45. Crew saved.
    LT178.1 AP 3.5.43. 1 AD 24.6.43. 66 Sqn 9.8.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. GRS 30.4.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT181.1 AP 3.5.43. 1 AD 24.6.43. 66 Sqn 9.8.43. 8 SFTS 19.12.43. 3 CRD 22.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    LT187.2 AP 19.5.43. GRS 5.8.43. 73 Sqn 10.5.44. 2 AP 2.8.44. 5 AD 17.8.44. 8 SFTS 20.10.44. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 19.5.47.
    LT195.2 AP 19.5.43. GRS 5.8.43. Crashed when lost and out of fuel, 7 miles north of Yanakie, Vic, 18.10.43. To Instructional No 8, 10.5.44.
    LT196.2 AP 17.5.43. 66 Sqn 4.8.43. 8 SFTS ‘96’ 29.12.43. 3 CRD 17.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    LT198.2 AP 19.5.43. 66 Sqn 4.8.43. 8 SFTS ‘65’ 29.12.43. 1 WAGS 26.12.44. SOC 23.3.47.
    LT200.2 AP 19.5.43. 1 WAGs 30.8.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. SOC 21.2.47.
    LT202.2 AP 19.5.43. GRS 5.8.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 5.6.44. Ansett 25.1.45. 3 CU 27.3.45. Ansett 21.5.45. 2 CRD 13.11.45. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    LT254.2 AP 5.7.43. GRS 19.10.43. 71 Sqn 19.5.44. 2 AP 7.8.44. 7 SFTS (date?). GRS 19.3.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT293.2 AP 5.7.43. GRS (date?). SOC 16.10.47.
    LT294.2 AP 5.7.43. 8 SFTS 24.9.43. 4 CU 20.12.43. 9 CU 11.2.44. Crashed on Mt Kenevi, PNG 30/01/44. Both crew members were killed - G/C Frederick James Byam Wight and W/C Walter Lawrence Hammond. Remains of both crew members were recovered by a team led by W/C Keith Rundle and were buried at Bomana War Cemetery, PNG, 5.3.65. G/C Wight was the most senior RAAF officer to go missing during WW2.
    LT296.2 AP 5.7.43. 67 Sqn ‘MK-H’, ‘MK-P’ (date?). Crashed into sea off Mallacoota Vic, 19.11.44. Crew rescued by S.S Honorata.
    LT428.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BAGS 10.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT445.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BAGS 8.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT577.2 AP 2.8.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. 3 WAGS 13.3.44. 5 AD 1.4(?).44. 3 WAGS 18.5.44. 5 AD 7.8.44. 3 WAGS 29.8.44. 1 WAGS 13.9.44. AGRS 23.7.45. SOC 26.5.47.
    LT587.2 AP 2.8.43. 1 AGS 17.4.44. Sold 19.8.46. Reservation of VH-AVX 5.47 for Macquarie Grove Flying School, Camden, NSW, not taken up. CoR No 1597 as VH-BVX issued 15.7.48 to Macquarie Grove Flying School, Camden, NSW. Transferred 7.9.49 to Charter Flite Aviation Service, Camden, NSW. Cancelled 5.10.49 "Used for spares".
    LT708.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BAGS 19.8.43. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 3 AOS 14.12.43. AAGS 13.3.44. CMU Nhill (date?). CMU Mallala 6.9.46. SOC 30.5.47.
    LT710.1 SFTS 18.8.43. 3 BAGS 19.8.43. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 3 AOS 14.12.43. AAGS 13.3.44. SOC 30.7.46. Fuselage frame held by RAAF museum.
    LT711.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BAGS 19.8.43. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 3 AOS 14.12.43. AAGS 13.3.44. Wheels up forced landing in paddock after engine failure, Kiata, Vic, 16.3.45. SOC 30.5.47.
    LT712.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. 2 AOS 9.9.43. 3 AOS 14.12.43. AAGS 13.3.44. SOC 30.7.46.
    LT714.2 AP 19.7.43. 3 BGS 6.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. 6 feet of wing broke off after it hit a target, aircraft crashed on the Gunnery Range West Sale, Vic, 6.9.45.
    LT715.2 AP 19.7.43. 3 BGS 4.10.43. 1 AOS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT726.2 AP 19.7.43. 3 BGS 1.10.43. 1 AOS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT732.2 AP 19.7.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AOS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT733.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. 1 AOS 22.11.43. SOC 16.10.47. (Also listed in a log book as having served with GRS at some time between 10/11/43 and 10/02/44 - possibly a mistaken entry for LT773).
    LT734.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 22.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT735.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 22.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT736.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 29.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT737.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 29.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1168 as VH-AZX issued 30.1.47 to K.H. Johnson, Air Taxi Service of Australia, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 10.47 to Far Eastern Flying Training School Ltd, Hong Kong, c/o Brown & Dureau Ltd, Sydney but sale fell through 3.48 after C of A overhaul by Brown & Dureau and subsequent DCA requirement for wing spar inspection. Transferred 26.8.48 to Marshall Airways, Mascot and later Bankstown, NSW. Cancelled 18.7.62 by direction of DGCA. Dismantled at Bankstown .64. To Fairfield Motor Wreckers, Fairfield, Sydney, NSW, .64 and displayed. Scrapped .67.
    LT773.1 SFTS 16.8.43. 3 BGS 30.8.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 29.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Sold to J. Blomberg, Clovelly, NSW. CoR No 1157 as VH-AZU issued 12.12.46 to K.H. Johnson t/a Air Taxi Service of Australia, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 10.47 to Far Eastern Flying Training School Ltd., Hong Kong, C/o Brown & Dureau Ltd., Sydney. Sale cancelled. C of A lapsed 11.12.47. Registration cancelled 19.12.47. Restored 6.1.48. Transferred 26.8.48 to S.D. Marshall, Marshall Airways, Rockdale, NSW. Stored in an open yard at Bankstown, NSW and became derelict. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    LT779.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 19.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT780.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 19.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1498 as VH-BVY issued 22.10.47 to Agriculturalists Aviation Services Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Fitted with underwing spray gear. CofA lapsed at Archerfield, Qld 21.10.48 and aircraft withdrawn from use. Cancelled 1.6.51.
    LT781.2 AP 16.8.43. 1 BGS 3.11.43. 1 AGS 13.12.43. Structural failure pulling out of apparent low dive, crashed and burned, Glen Innes, NSW, 11.9.44.
    LT782.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 27.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT783.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 27.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT784.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 11.11.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. Sold 11.2.47. CoR No 1667 as VH-BKT issued 11.10.49 to Second City Air Services, Cheltenham, Vic. Transferred 6.11.50 to Brain and Brown Airfreighters Pty, Moorabbin Vic. Damaged beyond repair on landing Moorabbin, Vic, 20.2.53. Cancelled 23.9.53.
  • Images of LT784.
  • LT792.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 2.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Airscrew struck water while low flying, 18 miles south-west of Seaspray, Vic, 1.7.45. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1211 as VH-AXQ issued 1.3.47 to D.W. Gluyas & P.B Lavender, Geelong, Vic. Transferred 18.4.47 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use Mascot, NSW, 1.48. Cancelled 20.10.49.
    LT793.2 AP 16.8.43. 3 BGS 4.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. AAS 8.3.46. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT929.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BGS 29.9.43. GRS 11.10.43. 3 BGS 29.11.43. 1 AGS ‘32’ 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT930.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Sold to Sutton’s Motor Maintenance, East Sydney, NSW, 22.8.46.
    LT931.2 AP 2.8.43. 1 AGS 27.12.43. AAS 8.3.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT932.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BGS 1.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT956.2 AP 5.8.43. ANA 5.8.43. 2 AP 13.12.43. 1 AGS 20.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. East Sale 5.12.46. SOC 6.4.48.
    LT996.Butler Air Transport 3.8.43. 2 AP 17.11.43. 3 BGS 9.12.43. 1 AGS 11.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. Sold to east West Airlines, Tamworth, NSW, 2.10.47.
    LT997.Butler Air Transport 3.8.43. 2 AP 13.10.43. 3 BGS 17.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LT998.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BGS 4.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. Sold to Sutton’s Motor Maintenance, East St Kilda, Vic, 22.8.46.
    LT999.2 AP 5.8.43. ANA 5.8.43. 2 AP 28.11.43. 3 BGS 10.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV122.2 AP 2.8.43. 3 BGS 8.12.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Forced landing West sale Gunnery Range, Vic, 19.4.44. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV123.2 AP 5.8.43. 1 AGS 27.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 10.10.47.
    LV128.2 AP 9.8.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. Port undercarriage folded up, West Sale, Vic, 24.9.44. GRS 18.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold to W.R. Murphy & Rudd, St Kilda, Vic, 6.5.47. CoR No 1512 as VH-BET issued 2.12.47 to C.R. Rudd & W.R. Murphy, Toorak, Vic. Destroyed in hangar fire, Nhill, Vic, 5.6.48. Cancelled 23.6.48.
    LV129.Butler Air Transport 3.8.43. 2 AP 1.10.43. 3 BGS 6.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV130.2 AP 5.8.43. ANA 5.8.43. 2 AP 21.1.44. 1 AOS 31.1.44. 3 AOS 26.2.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV131.2 AP 5.8.43. ANA 5.8.43. 2 AP 30.12.43. 1 AOS 11.1.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV154.1 AP 13.9.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. Sold to W. Dwyer, West Brunswick, Vic, 11.2.47.
    LV155.1 AP 13.9.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV156.1 AP 13.9.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 30.10.47.
    LV157.1 AP 13.9.43. 3 BGS 23.10.43. 1 AGS 12.12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV203.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 29.2.44 (? - probably 11.11.43). 2 AP 9.2.44. 3 AOS 27.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47
    LV204.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 11.11.43. 2 AP 2.2.44. 3 AOS 23.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV205.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 11.11.43. 2 AP 21.2.44. 1 AOS 6.3.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 19.5.47.
    LV206.2 AP 14.9.43. 1 AGS .12.43. CMU West Sale 29.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV207.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 11.11.43. 2 AP 27.2.44. 1 AOS 13.3.44. 2 AOS 18.12.44. CMU Mount Gambier for bush fire control, 15.11.46. Sold 21.2.47.
    LV210.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 11.11.43. 2 AP 28.2.44. 1 AOS 19.3.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold E.W. Bruce, Mont Albert, Vic, 16.12.46.
    LV211.2 AP 14.9.43. 1 AGS 11.12.43. West Sale storage 3.9.45. Sold 30.6.47. CoR No 1528 as VH-BKA issued 24.12.47 to H.A. MacDonald, RAAF Amberley, Qld. Withdrawn from use, Bankstown, NSW, 23.12.48. Cancelled 6.8.51. Became derelict Bankstown.
    LV212.2 AP 14.9.43. ANA 11.11.43. 2 AP 9.2.44. 3 AOS 2.3.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 2 AOS 6.4.45. CMU Mount Gambier 23.3.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    LV262.2 AP 19.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    LV263.2 AP 19.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. 3 WAGS 13.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 28.3.44. 3 WAGS 5.6.44. 1 WAGS (date?) . 1 APU 30.12.44. 1 WAGS 18.3.45. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    LV264.2 AP 14.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. 3 AOS 19.1.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV265.2 AP 19.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. GRS 19.2.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    LV281.2 AP 19.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. AFRU Evans Head storage 21.5.45. Sold 8.8.47. CoR No 1614 as VH-BMQ issued 18.12.48 to E.E. Condon (Trading as Wagga Flying School), Wagga Wagga, NSW. Transferred 10.6.50 to Inland Airways Pty Ltd, Broken Hill, NSW. Transferred 26.10.51 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Sold 17.4.53 to A. Kopke, Yaringa Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, Geraldton, WA, for spares. Cancelled 22.5.53. Derelict Maylands, WA, .55.
    LV284.2 AP 19.10.43. 1 AGS 3.1.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47. Presently under restoration by Alan Penhall at Ballarat Airport. 80% of the fuselage is from LV284, the nose section is from LV298 (but see entry under LV298 below).
  • Images of LV284/LV298.
  • LV285.2 AP 11.10.43. 3 AOS 17.1.44. 1 WAGS 30.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 26.5.47.
    LV286.2 AP 11.10.43. 1 AOS 27.12.43. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 14.5.47.
    LV287.2 AP 11.10.43. AAS 13.1.44. Sold 26.6.46. CoR No 1080 as VH-ASZ issued 1.10.46 to New England Airways, Mascot, later Bankstown, NSW “Spirit of Casino”. Sold 10.50 to Kingsford Smith Aviation Service, Bankstown, NSW, for spares. Cancelled 10.1.51 as scrapped.
    LV288.2 AP 11.10.43. 3 AOS 24.1.44. Damaged taxying, Port Lincoln, SA, 31.3.44. Collided with MG222 in formation 22.8.45. 5 CRD 6.12.45. Converted to components 24.6.46.
    LV289.9 RSU 1.12.43. 1 AP 10.1.44. 1 AD 21.2.44. 3 AOS 19.3.44. Crashed on landing, Port Pirie, SA, 23.6.44. Guinea Airways overhaul 4.2.45. 6 SFTS 10.9.45. CMU Mallala 28.2.46. AGRS 23.12.46. 2 CU 7.8.47. 1 CU 18.12.47. SAN 2.4.48. 1 AD 15.9.48. Airframe only sold to P.A. Plunkett, Berrigan, NSW, 15.6.54.
    LV293.9 RSU 1.12.43. 1 AP 10.1.44. 3 AOS 26.2.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 2 AOS 22.4.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    LV294.2 AP 11.10.43. 3 AOS 13.1.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV295.2 AP 11.10.43. AAS 17.1.44. AAGS 6.11.45. CMU Nhill (date?). Point Cook storage 19.7.46. 1 CU 13.2.48. SAN 19.5.48. 1 AD 12.10.48. Pearce 20.1.49. 25 Sqn 23.6.49. 1 AD 29.3.51. Sold to E. Challender, Randwick, NSW, 23.6.54.
    LV296.2 AP 11.10.43. 3 AOS 13.1.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    LV298.This was the believed identity of the nose section of the Anson being restored by Alan Penhall at Ballarat Airport in which 80% of the fuselage is from LV284. However, RAF records indicate that LV298 did not leave the United Kingdom and no card for this aircraft is held by RAAF Records. As the nose section is believed to be from an aircraft that served in Ballarat with 1 WAGS and was sold for scrap in 1946, further investigation is needed.
  • Images of LV284/LV298.
  • LV321.2 AP 11.10.43. 1 AOS 24.1.44. 3 AOS 18.12.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG120.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 1.12.43. 2 AP 6.3.44. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 2 AOS 26.3.45. CMU Mount Gambier for bush fire patrol 15.1.46. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG122.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 1.12.43. 2 AP 17.2.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 2 AOS 26.3.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG123.2 AP 11.10.43. ANA 1.12.43. Butler Air Transport 6.3.44. 2 AP 5.6.44. 1 AOS 15.6.44. APL 14.8.44. 3 AD 23.10.44. 1 WAGS 26.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold to Captain Lynch, North Bridge, NSW, 8.10.46.
    MG124.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 1.12.43. 2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 27.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG125.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 11.11.43. 2 AP 14.12.43. 1 AGS 23.12.43. CMU West Sale 6.8.45. SHQ East Sale 3.12.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG128.2 AP 11.10.43. ANA 6.12.43. Butler Air Transport 6.3.44. 2 AP 26.5.44. 1 AOS 5.6.44. 1 WAGS 14.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 19.5.47.
    MG129.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 11.11.43. 2 AP 29.12.43. 1 AOS 28.1.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 2.5.47.
    MG130.2 AP 19.10.43. ANA 15.1.44. 1 AOS 3.2.44. GRS 15.1.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG141.2 AP 11.10.43. ANA 1.12.43. Butler Air Transport 6.3.44. 2 AP 9.5.44. 8 SFTS 19.5.44. 3 CRD 15.6.45. Converted to components 11.8.45.
    MG142.2 AP 3.1.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 2.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG143.2 AP 19.10.43. ANA (Date?). 2 AP 27.1.44. 3 AOS 10.3.44. 1 WAGS 30.10.44. AGRS (date?). For sale 24.4.53.
    MG161.2 AP 1.12.43. ANA 1.12.43. Butler Air Transport 6.3.44. 2 AP 12.6.44. 1 AOS 26.6.44. 3 AOS 18.12.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG162.22 RSU 15.11.43. 9 RSU 22.22.43. 1 AP for W/T fit 23.3.44. 6 SFTS 3.4.44. GRS 5.2.45. Sold 18.9.45. CoR No 877 as VH-AGO issued 29.1.46 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Withdrawn from use 30.11.50. Cancelled 9.1.53. Restored 16.10.51. C of A expired and aircraft withdrawn from use 31.10.52. Scrapped Mascot Jan 53. Cancelled 9.1.53.
  • Images of MG162.
  • MG163.2 AP 3.1.44. 8 SFTS 6.4.44. 1 WAGS 20.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 14.5.47.
    MG164.2 AP 1.12.43. 3 AOS 23.2.44. 1 WAGS 30.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 14.5.47.
    MG165.2 AP 1.12.43. ANA 1.12.43. 2 AP 24.1.44. 1 AOS 3.5.44. 3 AOS 9.1.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG166.2 AP 1.12.43. 3 AOS 25.2.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. 1 CRD 30.10.45. Converted to components 2.5.46.
    MG168.2 AP 3.1.44. 1 AGS 20.11.44. SAN 2.12.46. 1 CU for bush fire patrol 25.3.48. ANS 1.4.48. 3 AD 5.11.48. 1 AD 1.1.51. Sold to F.F. Hardy, Numurkah, Vic, 16.6.53.
    MG169.2 AP 5.1.44. 1 AOS 3.5.44. GRS (date?). East Sale 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG172.9 RSU 1.12.43. 1 AP 28.3.44. 6 SFTS 6.4.44. SOC 30.5.47. Remains held by Ron Schneider at Rupanyup, Vic. 7.07.
    MG173.2 AP 3.1.44. 4 SFTS 6.3.44. 7 CU 5.2.45. 87 OBU (Date?). Sold to Airlines Western Australia Ltd 30.6.47.
    MG174.2 AP 3.1.44. 1 AOS 29.2.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG177.2 AD 19.10.43. ANA 1.12.43. Butler Air Transport 6.3.44. 2 AP 9.5.44. GRS 18.5.44. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG178.2 AP 19.10.43. ANA 19.10.43. 2 AP 25.1.44. 3 AOS 14.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG179.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 WAGS 6.4.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 19.6.44. 3 WAGS 7.7.44. 8 SFTS 9.10.44. 3 CRD 7.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG180.2 AP 11.10.43. Butler Air Transport 1.12.43. 2 AP 30.1.44. 3 AOS 9.3.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 2 AOS storage 15.4.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG187.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 22.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG188.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 13.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG189.2 AP 3.1.44. 4 SFTS 26.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. SoP 12.3.45. RAAF Canberra storage 24.10.45. Governor General’s Flt 5.4.46. Was to be Instructional No 17 but SOC 22.9.47.
    MG190.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 27.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG191.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 20.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG193.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 10.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG194.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 9.2.44. 1 WAGS 22.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 2.5.47.
    MG195.2 AP 6.12.43. Butler Air Transport 18.1.44. 8 SFTS 6.4.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. SOC 7.10.48.
    MG196.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 2.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG197.2 AP 6.12.43. 3AOS 10.3.44. 5CRD 1.2.46. Offered for disposal 16/05/46. Passed to DAP and SOC 20.08.47. DAP action finalised 12.12.47. Cockpit Section held at Monash, SA.
    MG214.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS 31.1.44. GRS 15.1.45. East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG215.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 22.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG216.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 10.2.44. 1 WAGS 3.12.45. SOC 11.8.47.
    MG217.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS ‘217’ 27.2.44. Port wing sheared off outboard of port nacelle fairing after steep turn to starboard and aircraft crashed 2 ¾ miles north of Port Pirie, SA, 31.12.44. F/O Sven Robert Polgreen (Wireless Air Gunner), LACs Lawrence Gordon Campbell and Robert Bruce McCallum (trainees) all killed. Sgt Mervyn John Kingsman (pilot) seriously injured.
    MG222.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 27.1.44. Collided in formation with LV288, 22.8.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47. Purchased by Queensland Air Museum from Geoff Moesker who had trucked the aircraft from South Australia. .77. Air-Britain claims that the aeroplane came from a property at Bute, S.A. Forward fuselage now held by Queensland Air Museum. (Previously misidentified as MG226 and MG390.)
    MG223.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 9.2.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. For sale at Tocumwal, NSW, 24.4.53.
    MG224.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 30.1.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 14.5.47.
    MG225.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS 17.1.44. 2 AOS 18.12.44. 3 CU 30.11.45. SHQ Richmond for radio physics research (date?) 2 AD Ferry Flight 13.5.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    MG226.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 10.2.44. Forced landing, Yunta, SA, 90 miles north-east of Port Pirie, 29.7.44. Guinea Airways 18.8.44. 6 SFTS 27.12.44. 2 AOS 4.1.45. 7 CU 1.11.45. CMU Geraldton 13.5.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    MG229.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 27.1.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 20.5.47.
    MG230.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS 25.2.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 14.5.47.
    MG231.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 WAGS 22.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 11.4.44. 1 WAGS 28.4.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.5.47.
    MG232.2 AP 6.12.43. 8 SFTS ‘61’ 3.4.44. 3 CRD 18.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG233.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 WAGS 22.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 22.5.44. 1 WAGS 5.6.44. AGRS 27.11.45. For sale 24.4.53.
    MG255.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 WAGS 22.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 28.4.44. 1 WAGS 23.5.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG256.2 AP 6.12.43. 8 SFTS 10.4.44. 3 AOS 31.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG270.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS (date?). AFRU 12.2.45. CMU Deniliquin 3.10.45. 1 AD 12.12.47. DAP Parafield 25.2.48. APL 29.10.48. 3 AD 25.1.50. SOC 31.1.56. Sold to Air Express Co, Archerfield, Qld, 18.6.56.
    MG271.2 AP 6.12.43. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 17.11.44. GRS 18.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 23.9.47. Civil registration VH-BJY reserved by Woods Airways Pty Ltd but not taken up. CoR No 1489 as VH-WAA issed 15.1.48 to Woods Airways Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'The Islander'. Re-registerd VH-WAC on instructions from DCA due to potential confusion with International “Q” Code allocations. 12.48. Flew with Woods Airways between Perth and Rottnest Island from 1948 to 1961. C of A lapsed 2.12.58 and acft stored in hangar at Perth Airport, WA. Presumably C of A renewed as registration was eventually cancelled 22.2.62 as ‘withdrawn from use and C of A expired’ but aircraft was ferried by air to Seabourne Farm, Greenhills, near York, WA, 25.3.62 for use as a ‘cubby house’ by the children of the Seabrook family. Aircraft became derelict there. Remains York for an abortive restoration .76. To RAAF Association Aviation Historical Group, Bateman, Perth, WA for restoration 2.77. Nose and cockpit currently displayed in the RAAFA Museeum, Bull Creek, Perth...Held RAAFA museum Bull Creek, WA.
  • Images of MG271.
  • MG272.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 WAGS 22.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 18.3.44. 1 WAGS 29.5.44. AGRS 27.22.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG273.2 AP 6.12.43. Butler Air Transport 18.1.44. 2 AP 21.3.44. 1 WAGS 1.4.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 8.5.44. 1 WAGS 21.6.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG274.2 AP 6.12.43. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 2 AOS 6.4.45. Sold 4.2.47.
    MG275.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 27.3.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. 8 CU 3.9.45. Ground looped landing Boras Strip, NG, 5.10.45. SOC 18.12.45.
    MG279.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 15.3.44. 2 OTU 11.10.45. SOC 16.7.47.
    MG280.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 15.3.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG281.2 AP 6.12.43. 3 AOS 25.2.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG304.1 AP 21.2.44. CFS 24.4.44. 1 AOS 31.5.44. 1 WAGS 16.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG306.2 AP 3.1.44. 1 AOS 3.2.44. 3 AOS 26.2.45. GRS 12.3.45. Forced landing after engine failure, Western Junction, Tas, 6.8.45. East Sale for storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG307.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 25.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47
    MG308.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 23.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47
    MG309.2 AP 3.1.44. 3 AOS 23.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47
    MG310.2 AP 17.12.43. 1 Radar School 18.10.44. 8 SFTS 8.12.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. SOC 4.10.48.
    MG342.2 AP 18.12.43. 8 SFTS 31.3.44. 3 CRD 18.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG343.2 AP 18.12.43. 1 AOS 28.2.44. GRS 22.1.45. East Sale for storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG344.2 AP 18.12.43. 1 AOS 28.2.44. 3 AOS 19.1.45. GRS 2.3.45. East Sale for storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG345.2 AP 18.12.43. 3 AOS 13.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG346.2 AP 18.12.43. 1 AOS 3.3.44. 3 AOS 18.12.44. 5 CRD 21.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG349.2 AP 18.12.43. 3 AOS 27.3.44. 1 WAGS 28.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 30.7.47.
    MG381.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. 2 AOS 4.12.44. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG388.2 AP 6.12.43. 6 SFTS 28.1.44. 3 AOS 22.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG389.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AD 10.2.44. 7 CU 2.5.44. ANA 11.2.45. 4 SFTS 7.5.45. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    MG390.2 AP 6.12.43. 6 SFTS 30.1.44. 3 AOS 22.2.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold to Sgt R.A. Reimers, Port Pirie, SA, 13.5.47. At Lincoln Nitschke collection, Greenock, SA.
    MG391.2 AP 6.12.43. 6 SFTS 28.1.44. 3 AOS 22.2.44. Under carriage collapsed on landing, Port Pirie, SA, 3.10.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG392.2 AP 6.12.43. 6 SFTS 28.1.44. 3 AOS 22.2.44. 5 CRD 1.7.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG422.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. 67 Sqn 15.1.45. 11 EFTS storage 28.8.45. CMU Benalla (date?). CMU Tocumwal 3.12.45. Sold to A.F.T. Deane, Coongupna, Vic, 16.7.53. Was in storage Winton Vic. Purchased in 2002 by Grahame Field and moved to Forbes NSW and was touring Airshows on a trailer in skeleton form complete with engines, no wood work or fabric and intended to be restored to flying condition. Unfortunately Grahame died and the fuselage was stored in early 2007 with no clear future.
  • Images of MG422.
  • MG423.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 28.3.44. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 8.9.47. For sale 24.4.53.
    MG436.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. 1 WAGS 1.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47. Cockpit reported under restoration by Friends of the Anson at Ballarat in .07.
    MG447.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AD 27.2.44. 5 AD 20.6.44. 7 CU 31.7.44. 17 RSU 10.9.45. 7 CU 18.10.45. RAAF Pearce storage 21.3.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    MG448.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS 24.1.44. APL 19.2.45. 3 AD 16.7.45. 2 AD Test & Ferry Sqn 6.8.45. 1 AD 6.2.46. 1 CU 19.12.47. SAN 2.4.48. 1 AD 22.11.48. Sold to Messrs Murdock, Burgoyne & Blakemore, Brighton, Vic, 19.12.52.
    MG449.2 AP 6.12.43. 8 SFTS 18.1.44. RAAF Maryborough storage (date?) Sold 22.8.46. CoR No 1158 as VH-AYC issued 24.12.46 to F.W. Sutton, Sydney. Cancelled 1.5.47 as "Sold to the Portuguese Government". Re-registered 13.7.47 as CR-AFT to Transportes Aereos de Timor, Dili, East Timor.
    MG450.2 AP 6.12.43. 1 AOS 21.1.44. 1 WAGS, 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG452.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 3.4.44. Struck by Beaufort A9-179 which was landing East Sale 1.7.44 and burned out.
    MG453.2 AP 31.1.44. 6 SFTS 22.3.44. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG454.2 AP 14.2.44. 8 SFTS 31.3.44. 3 AOS 14.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG456.2 AP 31.1.44. 8 SFTS 2.4.44. 3 CRD 18.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG457.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG520.2 AP 1.2.44. 3 AD 4.3.44. 6 CU 27.3.44. Forced landing, Caledon Bay, Melville Island, NT, 10.4.44. Ansett overhaul 16.3.45. 1 AD 17.9.45. 11 EFTS storage 25.9.45. 8 CU 6.12.45. 111 ASR Flt 28.1.46. RAAF Moresby 13.1.47. Sold to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG, 21.4.47.
    MG521.2 AP 1.2.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 18.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG522.2 AP 1.2.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 2.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG526.2 AP 31.1.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 18.4.45. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG527.2 AP 31.1.44. 6 SFTS 20.3.44. AGRS 23.12.46. For sale 24.4.53.
    MG528.2 AP 31.1.44. 3 WAGS 10.4.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 1.6.44. 3 WAGS 21.6.44. 3 CRD 7.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG530.2 AP 31.1.44. 8 SFTS 31.3.44. 3 AOS 25.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 6.5.47. CoR No 1511 as VH-BES issued 2.10.47 to C.R. Rudd & W.R. Murphy, Toorak, Vic. Destroyed in hangar fire, Nhill, Vic, 5.6.48. Cancelled 23.6.48.
    MG531.2 AP 6.3.44. GRS 8.5.44. East Sale storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG654.1 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. AGS 22.11.44. CMU West Sale (date?). East Sale storage 19.11.46. SOC 6.4.48.
    MG655.1 AP 14.2.44. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS ‘757’ 19.3.45. Collided and became entangled in telephone wires near Mario Hotel while on bush fire patrol and ditched in Marlo Inlet, Vic, 11.1.46.
    MG656.1 AP 14.2.44 4SFTS 13.3.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 2.4.45. East sale storage 11.2.46. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1228 as VH-BAX issued 11.4.47 to M.J. Backwell, Geelong, Vic. Transferred 18.8.47 to Western Airways Passenger Services Pty Ltd., Warrnambool, Vic. Transferred 25.4.48 to Corio Air Freighters, Belmont Aerodrome, Geelong, Vic. Transferred 17.11.49 to Bass Island Airways, Melbourne Vic. Transferred 12.51 to Corio Air Engineers, Belmont Common, Vic. Damaged by Barwon River floods at Belmont Common Airfield, Geelong, Vic .52. Cancelled 21.5.53.
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  • MG686.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 24.3.44. 3 AOS 1.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG722.2 AP 21.3.44. GRS 7.5.44. East Sale storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG723.2 AP 21.3.44. GRS 15.5.44. East Sale storage (date?). SOC 16.10.47.
    MG724.2 AP 21.3.44. GRS 17.5.44. 2 AD Test & ferry Flt in connection with “Overlander” 22.10.45. SOC 24.6.48.
    MG727.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 20.3.44. 2 AOS 4.1.45. SOC 6.8.47.
    MG728.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 WAGS 27.3.44. Forced landing due to bad weather, Gympie Showgrounds, Qld, 5.6.44. 8 SFTS 9.10.44. 3 CRD 7.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG729.2 AP 14.2.44. 4 SFTS 13.3.44. 1 AGS 19.11.44. GRS 19.3.45. East sale storage 11.2.46. Sold 11.10.46. CoR No 1517 as VH-NGG issued 12.3.48 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use, Archerfield, Qld 11.3.49. Cancelled 12.3.49. Derelict Archerfield, Qld, .49.
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  • MG732.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 14.3.44. 1 CU 10.10.45. (Unknown unit 30.1.46). 1 APU 12.2.46. 1 AD 26.8.46. SOC 19.5.48.
    MG733.2 AP 14.2.44. 8 SFTS 14.4.44. 3 CRD 15.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG734.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 17.3.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold to R. Nicholson, Woomelang, Vic, 30.3.53.
    MG735.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 17.3.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47. Held South Australian Aviation Museum.
    MG757.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 14.3.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.57.
    MG770.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 14.3.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.57.
    MG773.2 AP 14.2.44. 8 SFTS 12.4.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. SOC 7.10.48.
    MG774.2 AP 14.2.44. 1 WAGS 20.4.44. 5 AD 4.6.44. 1 WAGS 8.8.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG775.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 20.3.44. 3 WAGS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG778.1 AP 21.2.44. 6 SFTS 3.4.44. 3 AOS 7.6.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG779.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 3.4.44. CMU Mallala 4.2.46. Parafield (date?). SOC 30.5.47.
    MG780.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 28.3.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    MG795.2 AP 14.2.44. 3 AOS 14.3.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG796.2 AP 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 20.3.44. GRS 5.2.45. Issued to Adastra Airways, Mascot, NSW, to survey the State of Victoria as the RAAF Survey Flight was unable to carry out the task. Registration VH-AGG issued to MG796 but C of A not issued pending discussions about max all-up-weight in civil service. CoR No 829 as VH-AGG issued 22.10.45 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. C of A expired 8.9.47. Registration cancelled as ‘withdrawn from use’ 19.12.47. Struck off RAAF charge 3.3.48. Failed wing glue test at Mascot and placed in storage pending decision from DCA 19.8.48. Scrapped Mascot 1950. (Note: This was the first Australian civil Anson. For more detail on the negotiations about civil registration see http://www.adastra.adastron.com/aircraft/anson/vh-agg.htm )
    MG800.2 AP 24.2.44. 1 AOS 20.4.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG805.2 AP 24.2.44. 8 SFTS 6.4.44. 1 WAGS 20.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold to E.W. Bruce, Mont Albert, Vic, 16.12.46.
    MG813.2 AP 24.2.44. 8 SFTS 13.4.44. 3 AOS 14.5.45. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG836.2 AP 24.2.44. 2 AOS 12.4.44. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG837.2 AP 24.2.44. 4 SFTS 18.4.44. AGS 19.11.44. GRS 18.4.45. Survey Flt 29.5.45. CMU Narramine 14.5.46. Sold 13.10.47. CoR No 1607 as VH-BMC issued 6.12.48 to Aircraft Disposals Co, c/- J. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Departed Australia 17.3.49 for overseas sale. Damaged in forced landing at Agra, India 11.49 and sold in damaged condition to R. Hudson, Taxas, USA.. Cancelled 22.12.49 'aircraft exported to India'.
    MG838.2 AP 27.4.44. 5 AD 30.6.44. 3 AOS 25.7.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 6.5.47. Registration VH-BFD reserved 14.7.47 for W.R. Murphy and C.B. Rudd but not taken up. CoR No 1541 as VH-BJP issued 28.5.48 to Tradair Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Withdrawn from use, Essendon, Vic, 27.5.49. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    MG841.2 AP 24.2.44. 8 SFTS 10.4.44. 3 AOS 14.3.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 10.10.46. CoR No 1581 as VH-WAB issued 25.10.48 to Woods Airways Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'Willem de Vlamingh'. (Woods Airways flew the regular service to Rottnest Island off Perth). Withdrawn from use Perth Airport, WA, 31.12.61. Cancelled 22.2.62 "C of A expired'. Ferried Perth to Borden, WA, 2.62 to become children’s play house. Became derelict on farm. Nose with RAAFA Museum, Bull Creek WA, by 2003.
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  • MG842.2 AP 27.4.44. 6 CU 19.7.44. APL 26.1.45. 3 AD 1.10.45. 2 AD 18.2.46. SOC 24.6.48.
    MG843.2 AP 27.4.44. GRS 19.6.44. East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG845.2 AP 27.4.44. 6 CU 19.7.44. 2 RSU 13.7.45. 2 CRD 29.8.45. 2 AD 11.2.46. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    MG846.2 AP 27.4.44. 9 CU 29.8.44. 15 ARD 15.9.44. Port undercarriage caught in drain after landing, Terapa Strip, NG, 12.10.44. Presumed converted to components.
    MG847.2 AP 27.4.44. 8 SFTS 5.6.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. Sold 7.10.48.
    MG849.2 AP 27.4.44. 8 SFTS 1.6.44. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG850.2 AP 8.5.44. GRS 10.7.44. East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG851.2 AP 8.5.44. 2 AOS 26.6.44. Crashed during night navigation exercise, 14 miles north-west of Casterton, Vic, 15.11.44.
    MG853.2 AP 8.5.44. 1 AOS 22.9.46. 3 AOS 26.2.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold to Sgt R.A. Reimers, Port Pirie, SA, 6.5.47.
    MG867.1 AP 17.4.44. 3 AOS 1.8.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG868.1 AP 17.4.44. 1 AD 8.8.44. 1 WAGS 25.9.44. 8 CU 3.9.45. 15 ARD 8.10.45. Converted to components 14.2.46.
    MG869.1 AP 17.4.44. 2 AOS 14.6.44. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG871.1 AP 17.4.44. 8 SFTS 8.8.44. Forced landing 20 miles east of Rockhampton, Qld, 10.8.44. 3 CRD 27.8.44. APL 19.10.44. 3 AD 19.2.45. 3 AOS 26.2.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. 1 CU 18.2.46. CMU Wagga 4.3.46. Sold to B.E. Clifton, Forbes, NSW, 11.10.46.
    MG872.1 AP 17.4.44. GRS 8.6.44. East Sale storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47. Cockpit on display at Gippsland Armed Forces Museum, Sale, Vic, by 4.07.
    MG873.1 AP 17.4.44. 8 SFTS 15.5.44. 3 AOS 14.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG888.2 AP 6.3.44. CFS 21.4.44. 1 WAGS 18.10.44. AGRS 22.11.45. SOC 14.5.47.
    MG889.2 AP 6.3.44. 5 AD to fit ASV 22.5.44. 3 WAGS 2.6.44. 8 SFTS 9.10.44. Radar School 18.6.45. 4 CU 29.8.45. AGRS 14.12.45. Sold 12.12.46. CoR No 1463 as VH-AHG issued 24.9.47 to Baker Motors, Albury, NSW. Transferred 15.5.48 to Taylor's Air Transport, Lae, NG. Transferred 28.2.49 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use 8.2.50 on CoR expiry. Cancelled 6.8.51. Scrapped Lae.
    MG897.2 AP 26.4.44. 8 SFTS 16.5.44. 3 AOS 14.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG898.2 AP 26.4.44. 8 SFTS 5.6.44. 3 AOS 14.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG900.2 AP 26.4.44. 9 CU 29.8.44. Crashed in bad weather on hillside at Psila Psila, south of the Markham Valley, 80 miles from Tsili Tsili, NG, 8.9.44.
    MG917.2 AP 26.4.44. 2 AOS 22.5.44. CMU Mount Gambier, 5.11.45. SOC 6.8.47.
    MG919.2 AP 26.4.44. 8 SFTS 15.5.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. 3 AD 5.7.46. SOC, 7.10.48.
    MG921.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 1.6.44. Ground looped during take-off, Bundaberg, Qld, 15.8.44. APL 11.12.44. 3 AD 27.7.45. CMU Evans Head 13.8.45. Sold 14.8.46. CoR No 1113 as VH-AYA issued 15.11.46 to Cliftons Western Airways Ltd., Forbes, NSW. Cancelled 19.12.47 ‘withdrawn from use’.
    MG922.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 1.5.44. 3 CRD 15.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG923.2 AP 20.3.44. CFS 17.5.44. CMU Cootamundra 18.3.46. Sold to B.E. Clifton, Forbes, NSW, 11.10.46.
    MG925.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 4.5.44. 3 CRD 17.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG926.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 4.5.44. 1 WAGS 20.11.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MG927.2 AP 20.3.44. 2 AOS 22.5.44. CMU Mount Gambier 5.11.45. SOC 6.8.47.
    MG971.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 AOS 27.4.44. GRS (date?). East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG972.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 15.5.44. 3 AOS ‘2’ 14.5.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 26.9.47.
    MG973.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 15.5.44. 3 AD 27.1.45. Survey Flt ‘SU-D’ 2.4.45. 2 AD Ferry Flt 10.5.46. Target Towing and Special Duties Flt, Richmond, 2.9.46. 2 AD 3.1.47. SOC 30.12.48.
    MG974.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS ‘97’ 12.5.44. Forced landing after engine failure 1 mile west of Innisfail, Qld, 29.11.44. APL 5.4.45. 3 CRD 17.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    MG975.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 AOS 20.4.44. 2 AOS 18.12.44. Survey Flt ‘SU-J’ 30.7.45. CMU Narrandera 27.6.46. Sold 13.10.47. CoR No 1615 as VH-BMB issued 2.12.48 to Aircraft Disposals Pty Ltd, Mudgee, NSW. Withdrawn from use 1.12.49. Cancelled 6.8.51. Stored Camden, NSW, until scrapped 1960.
    MG977.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 WAGS 17.4.44. 5 AD 15.6.44. 1 WAGS 8.8.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MG978.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 16.5.44. 88 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. CMU West Sale 1.4.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MG979.2 AP 26.4.44. 8 SFTS 15.5.44. 3 CRD 14.6.45. Converted to components 3.12.45.
    MG982.2 AP 15.5.44. Survey Flt ‘SU-E’ 17.7.44. CMU Narrandera 14.5.46. Sold 13.10.47. CoR No 1619 as VH-BME issued 14.1.49 to Aircraft Disposals Co, Mudgee, NSW. Withdrawn from use 13.1.50. Cancelled 6.8.51. Stored Camden, NSW until scrapped .60.
    MG983.2 AP 15.5.44. 6 SFTS ‘64’ 26.6.44. Collided with stationery Oxford LW998 when returning from navigation exercise, Mallala, SA, 10.10.44. 3 AOS 7.6.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG984.2 AP 15.5.44. 6 SFTS 26.6.44. Survey Flt 24.9.45. SHQ Canberra 11.9.46. To Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 8.3.50. Scrapped by AWM (date?)
    MG987.2 AP 15.5.44. 1 WAGS 8.9.44. 8 CU 8.4.45. 33 OBU 27.4.45. 8 CU 23.7.45. 2 AD 3.9.45. 2 CRD 29.10.45. Converted to components 17.4.46.
    MG988.2 AP 15.5.44. 5 AD 7.7.44. 3 AOS 25.7.44. SOC 20.8.47.
    MG989.2 AP 15.5.44. Collided with Tiger Moth A17-712 on take-off, Bankstown, NSW, 21.6.44. 8 SFTS 14.8.44. Radar School 21.4.45. 4 CU 29.8.45. AGRS 12.9.45. Sold 19.12.46. CoR No 1176 as VH-BAV 24.12.46 to N.G. Padgett, Werribee South, Vic. Transferred 27.6.47 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Failed DCA glue test, Lae, NG, and cancelled 13.3.48. Broken up at Lae 22.11.48.
    MG992.2 AP 20.3.44. CFS 19.5.44. 1 AOS 31.5.44. 3 AOS 21.1.45. Forced landing after engine failure, ½ mile south of Port Pirie, SA, 7.3.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 6.5.47. Registration VH-BFE reserved 14.7.47 for W.R Murphy & C.B. Rudd, Melbourne, Vic, but not taken up. CoR No 1543 as VH-BJO issued 19.1.48 to Tradair Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Transferred 19.7.48 to Corio Air Freighters, Geelong, Vic. Transferred 3.11.49 to Bass Islands Airways Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Withdrawn from use 16.11.50. Cancelled 6.8.51. Sold 11.51 to D.J. Bourke, Geelong, Vic. VH-DJB reserved 17.3.52 but aircraft not returned to service.
    MG993.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 AOS 27.4.44. GRS 19.2.45. SOC 16.10.47.
    MH114.2 AP 20.3.44. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. 2 AOS 26.3.45. CMU Mount Gambier 9.6.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MH115.2 AP 20.3.44. GRS 1.5.44. East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MH116.2 AP 20.3.44. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. 2 AOS 2.4.45. Forced landing after engine failure, Hamilton, Vic, 6.9.45. CMU Mount Gambier 5.11.45. SOC 21.7.47.
    MH120.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 AOS 20.4.44. AFRU12.2.45. CMU Deniliquin 3.10.45. 1 AD 12.12.47. DAP Parafield 25.2.45. APL 29.10.48. 2 AD 25.10.49. Sold 23.2.53. Registration VH-BLP(2) reserved 12.8.53 for J. McInnerney (trading as Greenfield Air taxis, Albury, NSW) but not taken up. CoR No 2371 as VH-BAF issued 9.9.57 to Aerocartographic Service, c/- Brain & Brown, Moorabbin Airport, Cheltenham, Vic. Damaged when undercarriage collapsed, Moorabbin, 7.10.60 and cancelled. Restored 16.8.63 (with CoR No 2371 re-issued on 5.9.63 as an Avro 652AM (Modified)) using Anson C19 tapered metal wings from RAAF stocks and some components from VH-BIX, to Brain & Brown Air Freighters Pty Ltd., Moorabbin, Vic. Cancelled at owners request 2.10.74. Restored 13.1.84 to Z.A. Brain, Doncaster, Vic, and named ‘Last of the Lot’ as the world's last airworthy Mk.1 Anson. Was on display at Airworld at Wangaratta, Vic. Sold 2002 to Bill Read, dismantled and shipped to Nelson, New Zealand. Under restoration to fly at Wakefield.NZ. Will be restored on original "glasshouse" configuration. # Images of MH120
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  • MH122.2 AP 20.3.44. 3 AOS 21.5.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    MH126.2 AP 20.3.44. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. 2 AOS 26.3.45. Sold 21.2.47.
    MH127.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 WAGS 17.4.44. 5 AD 8.8.44. 1 WAGS 4.9.44. AGRS 29.11.45. Sold 21.2.47. Cockpit presently under restoration by Alan Penhall at Ballarat Airport.
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  • MH128.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 20.4.44. 3 AOS 14,5,45, 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold 17.6.47. Registration VH-BFD reserved 14.7.47 for W.R. Murphy and C.B. Rudd but not taken up. CoR No 1541 as VH-BJP issued 28.5.48 to Tradair Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Withdrawn from use, Essendon, Vic, 27.5.49. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    MH131.2 AP 20.3.44. 1 AOS 20.4.44. GRS 9.2.45. East Sale storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MH132.2 AP 20.3.44. GRS 10.7.44. East Sale storage 11.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MH135.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 8.5.44. 1 WAGS 19.2.45. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MH149.2 AP 20.3.44. GRS 10.7.44. East Sale storage 7.2.46. SOC 16.10.47.
    MH150.2 AP 20.3.44. GRS 17.7.44. East Sale storage 11.2.46. Sold 17.9.46. CoR No 1291 as VH-AYK issued 29.5.47 to C.S. Richards, C.F. Ney & A.C. Coppleson, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 1.5.48 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use, Lae 8.49 and scrapped. Cancelled 17.5.51.
    MH151.2 AP 20.3.44. 8 SFTS 23.4.44. 3 CRD 22.6.45. Converted to components 16.4.46.
    MH177.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 WAGS 21.8.44. AGRS (date?). SOC 21.2.47.
    MH178.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 AOS 16.8.44. 1 AD Test & Ferry Flt 13.3.45. 1 AD 12.3.46. SOC 19.5.48.
    MH179.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 WAGS 22.8.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    MH180.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 WAGS 21.8.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold to E.W. Bruce, Mont Albert, Vic, 3.1.47.
    MH218.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 WAGS 27.7.44. East Sale storage (date?). SOC 16.10.47.
    MH219.1 AP 29.5.44. 5 AD 28.7.44. 1 AOS 28.8.44. 3 AOS 18.12.44. 5 CRD 1.2.46. Sold to Capt Woods, Perth, WA, 25.9.47.
    MH220.1 AP 29.5.44. AGS 22.8.44. CMU West Sale (date?). East Sale storage 5.12.46. 2 CU 29.8.47. Forced landing, Whyalla Aerodrome, SA, 7.10.47. SOC 26.2.48.
    MH222.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 AOS 16.8.44. AFRU 12.2.45. CFS 17.12.45. CMU Cootamundra 18.3.46. 1 AD 24.9.46. 1 AD Ferry Flt 2.10.46. 1 AD 4.8.50. Airframe only sold to P.A. Plunkett, Berrigan, NSW, 15.6.54.
    MH223.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 AOS 9.8.44. 1 AFRU 12.2.45. East Sale storage 6.3.46. AAS 3.10.46. East sale storage 11.12.47. 1 AD 8.6.51. Sold to H.F. Deane, Coongupna, Vic, 16.7.53.
    MH224.1 AP 22.5.44. 1 AD 8.8.44. 1 WAGS 14.10.44. 8 CU 3.9.45. 3 CRD 7.11.45. 3 AD 24.6.46. Sold 7.10.48.
    MH226.1 AP 29.5.44. 8 SFTS 14.8.44. 5 SFTS 23.4.45. 5 AD 30.7.45. CMU Cootamundra 8.2.46. Sold to E.W. Walsely, Gladesville, NSW, 14.10.46.
    MH227.1 AP 29.5.44. 1 WAGS 22.8.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    N1330.1 AD 22.11.38. 6 Sqdn via 2 AD 30.1.39. 23 Sqdn 7.2.39. Became bogged at Evans Head, NSW 22.5.40. 1 SFTS 1.7.40. 1 AD 4.8.40. Landed downwind and hit fence, Deniliquin NSW 13.8.40. Landed with undercarriage retracted Cressy, Vic, 5.9.40. ANA o’haul 13.8.41. 1 SFTS 26.9.41. AAS 21.12.41. Ansett 8.11.43. 1 AD 6.6.44. 6 SFTS 26.6.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    N1331.1 AD 22.11.38. 4 Sqn 15.12.38. Renamed 6 Sqn 31.1.39. 23 Sqn 7.2.39. 1 SFTS 1.7.40. Hit fence taxying at No 1 SLG, Vic, 24.7.40. 1 AD 25.8.40. 2 AOS 3.10.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 7 AD 18.2.43. Converted to components 29.7.44.
    N1332.1 AD 22.11.38. 2 Sqn 27.1.39. Struck fence ldg Laverton 14.2.39. 1 AD 17.2.39. 2 Sqn 1.3.39. SHQ Pearce 5.4.39. 1 SFTS 2.5.40. Broke adrift in a gale and hit L9162, Pt Cook 7.6.40. 1 AD 4.8.40. 1 SFTS 18.8.40. ANA 1.8.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Turret removed 23.1.42. GRS 3.1.45. To Instructional Airframe No.14 8.1.45.
    N1333.1 AD 4.12.38. 12 Sqn 8.2.39; Forced landing, Dromana, Vic, 16.5.39. 2 Sqn 10.7.39. Port undercarriage collapsed, Laverton, Vic, 13.9.39. 1 AD 13.9.39. 2 Sqn 25.9.39. 1 SFTS 16.6.40. Overshot into tree during forced landing after engine failure (where?) 1.1.41. 1 AD 7.1.41. 1 SFTS 17.3.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 3.1.42. Ansett 13.9.43. 1 AD 8.2.44. 4 SFTS 16.2.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    N1334.1 AD 4.12.38. 12 Sqn 10.2.39. 13 Sqn 18.6.40. Point Cook Store 1.7.40. AAS 14.7.40. 1 SFTS 22.9.40. Forced landing 2 miles east of Kilmore, Vic, 27.9.40. Undercarriage damaged in forced landing Werribee SLG, Vic, 3.3.41; 1 AD 2.4.41. 1 SFTS 11.4.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 3.1.42. Turret removed 23.1.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 5.10.43. 2 AOS 13.4.44. 2 OTU 13.2.46. SOC 16.7.47. Was under restoration by Ron Lee at Wangaratta, Vic, until 2002 when it was sold to Bill Read and shipped to Nelson, New Zealand. Under restoration at Wakefield, NZ 2006.
    N1335.1 AD 4.12.38. 12 Sqn 15.2.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. 2 AD 14.6.40. 1 AOS 11.7.40. Turret fitted 18.12.41. Butler Air Transport 2.3.42. 2 AD 2.6.42. 1 AOS 13.6.42. 5 AD 2.7.43. Crashed near Young, NSW, after engine failure 26.6.43.
    N1336.1 AD 6.12.38. 14 Sqn 27.2.39. Forced landing en route Laverton-Pearce (where?) 28.2.39. 1 SFTS 4.6.40. Broke away in storm , Point Cook, Vic, 7.6.40. 2 AP 23.9.40. 1 SFTS 7.10.40. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 3.1.42. Ansett 18.9.42. 1 AD 16.3.43. GRS 5.4.43. Crash landed Bairnsdale, Vic, 29.7.43. Ditched into Lake King, 2 miles east of Paynesville, Vic, after engine failure 21.3.45.
    N4868.1 AD 26.12.38. 14 Sqn 4.9.39. 1 SFTS 4.6.40. Forced landing, Point Cook, Vic, 3.8.40. 2 AP 7.10.40. 1 SFTS 5.1.41. 2 AOS 17.10.41 Turret fitted 19.12.41. Ansett 5.10.42. 1 AD 1.12.42. 1 AOS 7.12.42. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. Overshot ldg and struck fence Kojarena SLG, WA, 9.9.44. To Instructional Airframe No.12, 9.10.44.
    N4870.1 AD 26.12.38. 1 Sqn 31.8.39. GRS 30.4.40. 1 SFTS 27.6.40. 1 AD 31.3.41. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. ANA Maylands, WA, 8.3.43. 4 SFTS 9.8.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 8.2.47.
    N4873.1 AD 26.12.38. 1 Sqn 29.8.39. 1 SFTS 29.3.40. ANA overhaul 28.8.41. 1 AD 9.11.41. 2 AOS 23.11.41. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 15.9.44. Ansett overhaul 11.12.44. 2 AD 4.2.46. 2 AD for fire spotting 6.2.46. Damaged by hailstorm (Richmond?) 25.4.46. Sold 10.12.46. Registered as VH-BFL 6.11.47 to U-Drive Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Departed Australia 12.11.47 on ferry flight for resale. Sold to Hong Kong 1.48 and Aus reg cancelled 4.3.48. Registered in Hong Kong as VR-HDU 1.48 to Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong and based in Burma. Sold to Major Arthur Sinclair Cannon, Rangoon, Burma. Flown to Malaya .51 and later to Singapore. Sold in Malaya and registered to Nanyang Airways Ltd as VR-RCE. Wfu 27.10.54.
    N4876.1 AD 26.12.38. 1 Sqn "A" 29.8.39. GRS "A" 30.4.40. 2 SFTS "A" 21.7.40. Pick-a-back ldg 7 miles south-west of Brocklesby, NSW, with L9162 after mid-air collision 29.9.40. Clyde Engineering Co 25.11.40. 1 AOS 19.6.41. Ansett 30.11.42. 2 AP 22.7.43. GRS 9.8.43. SOC 16.10.47. ‘Ansons L9162 and N4876 of 2 SFTS collided when N4876 came down on top of L9162 in the air near Brocklesby, NSW, on 29 September 1940. The aircraft remained stuck together. The crew of the lower aircraft (Leading Aircraftsman [LAC] Jack Hewson and LAC Hugh Fraser) and the observer from the upper aircraft (LAC Ian Sinclair) baled out. The pilot of N4876 (LAC Leonard Fuller) managed to fly the two aircraft and belly land them, still joined, safely, in a paddock belonging to Mr T. Murphy approximately 7 miles south west of Brocklesby. L9162 was written off but N4876 was repaired and continued to fly until the end of the war. LAC Fuller went on to fly with the RAAF in Europe and won the DFM. Unfortunately he was killed at East Sale in 1944 when he was hit by a bus while riding a bicycle.’
    N4879.1 AD 17.1.39. 14 Sqn 17.8.39. 1 SFTS 10.6.40. 1 AD 31.3.41. 4 SFTS "35" 1.4.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Geraldton, WA, 27.4.42. ANA 13.7.42. 4 SFTS 18.3.43. ANA 20.1.45. 4 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 7.2.46.
    N4883.1 AD 17.1.39. 2 Sqn 20.7.39. 1 SFTS 8.7.40. 2 SFTS 27.10.40. 1 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS 27.2.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Geraldton, WA, 23.4.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. ANA 31.7.43. 4 SFTS 17.1.44. CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 1.2.48.
    N4887.1 AD 17.1.39. 1 FTS 18.7.39. Crashed into the Richmond Golf Course almost immediately after take-off from Richmond, NSW, in the early hours of the morning on a flight to Point Cook, Vic, 18.12.39. The aircraft took off at about 1.30 am, seconds before another aircraft was to take-off. Ground crew heard a loud roar then the sound of a crash. Many of the ground crew ran with torches and flares to the area of the sounds and found the aircraft debris scattered over a wide area. One engine had been driven deep into the earth. Flight Lieutenants Arthur Moorhouse Watkins and Hugh B. Horner, Flying Officers Henry Parker Fitzgerald and Malcolm Musgrave McInnes and Leading Aircraftsman Leonard J King all died instantly, some bodies being found a significant distance from the aircraft.
    N4891.1 AD 1.3.39. 12 Sqn 23.5.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. Point Cook store 1.7.40. Armament School 14.7.40. 1 SFTS 26.8.40. 4 SFTS 30.3.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Forced landing due to bad weather and fuel shortage near Northampton, WA, 27.4.42. ANA 20.7.42. 4 SFTS 26.4.43. Forced landing 6 miles south of Irwin, WA, 4.6.43. Taxying accident Kojarena SLG, WA, 23.6.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    N4895.2 AD 27.1.39. 23 Sqn 21.3.39. 1 SFTS 1.7.40. 2 SFTS 17.10.40. 1 AD 6.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 9 EFTS 2.9.42. 4 SFTS 14.6.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.45.
    N4899.1 AD 1.3.39. 12 Sqn 25.5.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. Pt Cook Store 1.7.40. Armament School 14.7.40. 1 SFTS 22.9.40. Forced landing after striking high tension wire, Germandale, (Vic?) 4.10.40. 1 AD 14.10.40. 2 SFTS 31.12.40. Ground looped during landing at Coolamon RLG, NSW, 22.1.41. 2 AP 23.5.41. 3 SFTS 27.5.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Stbd undercarriage collapsed on landing Mallala, SA, 23.6.42. Approved for conversion to components 18.11.43. 4 AD 23.11.43.
    N4904.2 AD 3.2.39. 6 Sqn (F) 28.3.39. 1 FTS 30.4.40. GRS 17.6.40. 1 AD 3.9.41. 2 AOS 14.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Ansett 19.7.42. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AD 9.4.45. GRS 18.4.45. Sold 11.2.47. Registered VH-BBN to C.G Cameron, Melbourne (and later of Tatyoon,) Vic, 29.5.47. WFU Essendon .48. Cancelled 9.4.51. Last reported derelict at Essendon. (date?)
    N4908.(1 AD?) 14 Sqn 8.5.39. 1 FTS 9.4.40. CFS 24.5.40. 1 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS 27.2.41. Forced landing 4 miles north of Geraldton RLG, WA, 11.6.41. Undercarriage collapsed during precautionary landing, Geraldton, WA, 20.9.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Collided with hangar after brake failure, Geraldton, WA, 25.3.42. Taxying accident, Georgina, WA, 17.8.42. ANA 13.3.44. 4 SFTS 4.9.44. CMU Evans Head, NSW, 24.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    N4912.2 AD 3.2.39. 23 Sqn 12.4.39. 6 Sqn 1.5.39. GRS 30.4.40. Forced landing after engine failure, Laverton, Vic, 2.8.40. Forced landing Wyanga, NT, 28.1.41. 1 AD 18.11.41. 2 AOS 11.1.42. 6 SFTS 21.12.42. Ground looped on landing and undercarriage collapsed Mallala, SA, 6.2.42. Undercarriage collapsed during forced landing, Lower Light SLG, SA, 6.3.44. Guinea Airways for major repair 6.3.44. Heavy landing, Mallala, SA, 21.4.45. SOC 30.5.47.
    N4916.1 AD 1.3.39. 14 Sqn 8.5.39. 1 SFTS 4.6.40. Damaged in gale, Point Cook, Vic, 7.6.40. 1 AD 12.8.40. 1 SFTS 20.9.40. Mid-air collision with A4-23 20.9.40. 4 SFTS 25.4.41. Taxied into W2041, Geraldton, WA, 14.6.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. ANA 3.5.42. 4 SFTS 30.8.43. Brakes failed in gale and collided with MH114, Geraldton, WA, 7.7.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    N4918.2 AD 3.2.39. 23 Sqn 8.5.39. 1 SFTS 1.7.40. 1 AD 1.8.41. 6 SFTS 15.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Turret removed 23.1.42. Guinea Airways 23.12.42. 6 SFTS 30.8.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    N4920.1 AD 7.3.39. 12 Sqn 23.5.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. 2 AD 14.6.40. 1 AOS 11.7.40. Butler Air Transport 30.7.40. 1 AOS 6.12.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Ansett 11.1.43. 1 AD 13.7.43. 6 SFTS 31.7.43. 67 Sqn 8.1.45. 6 SFTS 24.1.45. GRS 5.2.45. Crashed in bad weather and out of fuel 2 miles east of Morwell, Vic, 24.2.45.
    N4921.2 AD 7.3.39. 6 Sqn 17.9.39. 2 AD 25.8.39. 12 Sqn 27.11.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. 2 AD 14.6.40. 1 AOS 11.7.40. 1 ANS 6.11.40. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Ansett 22.3.43. 2 AP 1.9.43. 8 SFTS 11.9.43. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    N4926.1 AD 7.3.39. 2 Sqn 30.3.39. 12 Sqn 10.7.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. 2 AD 14.6.40. 1 AOS 11.7.40. Undercarriage collapsed landing Cootamundra, NSW, 29.1.41. Clyde Engineering Co 24.2.41. 2 AD 23.4.41. 1 ANS 23.2.42. Ansett 16.8.43. 2 AD 6.9.43. Converted to components 14.9.43.
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  • N4931.2 AD 7.3.39. 6 Sqn "F" 9.6.39. 1 SFTS 29.3.40. 1 AD 15.9.40. 1 SFTS 24.11.40. 2 AOS 28.12.41. Forced landing in bad weather 3 miles east of Dartmoor, Vic, 9.3.42. 7 AD 18.2.43. Converted to components 29.7.44.
    N4936.(DC) 1 AD 7.3.39. 2 Sqn 21.4.39. 1 FTS 25.8.39. GRS 15.5.40. 1 AD 3.10.41. 2 AOS 30.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Collided with A4-46 on landing Mount Gambier, Vic, 10.5.42. Ansett overhaul 2.11.43. 1 AD 1.8.44. 8 SFTS 10.8.44. Maryborough 18.6.45. Sold 9.7.46. Registered to H. Ellis, Dubbo, NSW 6.1.47. Reg to W. Haines, Sydney NSW, 23.4.47. Transferred to G.R. Board, trading as New Holland Airways, Sydney, NSW, 9.6.47. Sold 28.6.47 to Lim Cheng Sun, 133 Amoy St, Singapore. Registration cancelled 17.7.47. Reported as eventually going to Indonesian AF - no further details known but there is confusion about the first few Indonesian AF aircraft and their identities.
    N4941.2 AD 7.3.39. 6 Sqn "F" 17.7.39. CFS 29.5.40. 1 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS "27" 27.2.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure Georgina SLG, WA, 30.12.41. ANA o’haul 10.5.43. 4 SFTS 27.9.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    N4946.1 AD 7.3.39. 2 Sqn 5.4.39. Unserviceable at 21 Sqn 15.4.40. CFS 15.5.40. 2 AOS 1.8.40. 1 ANS 21.11.40. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Butler Air Transport 16.11.42. 2 AP 12.9.43. GRS 23.9.43. 67 Sqn "MK-V" 12.5.44. 1 AD 8.10.45. 11 EFTS Store 2.1.46. Badly damaged in storm at Benalla, Vic, 25.2.46. Converted to components 27.5.46.
    N4955.2 AD 4.4.39. Struck fence landing at Richmond, NSW, 28.9.39. 6 Sqn 9.1.40. 2 Sqn 19.2.40. 1 SFTS 9.7.40. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Struck by Demon A1-11 whose engine cut on take-off Point Cook, Vic, 24.12.41. Ansett 28.12.41. 1 AD 26.6.42. 6 SFTS 8.6.42. 100 Sqn 4.8.42. 6 SFTS 27.8.42. SOC 30.5.47.
    N4960.1 AD 6.4.39. 2 Sqn 5.4.39. 1 SFTS 4.7.40. Ansett 28.8.41. 1 AD 9.11.41. Armament School 27.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Tail damaged by Vickers Gun 17.3.43. Forced landing in paddock 15 m south of Nhill, Vic, 16.6.43. Ansett 27.9.43. 1 AD 4.7.44. 5 AD 3.8.44. 5 SFTS "60" 10.11.44. Ground looped during forced landing Uranquinty, NSW, 16.11.45. 10 EFTS Store 14.1.46. SOC 11.8.47.
    N4965.2 AD 4.4.39. 6 Sqn 9.1.40. Struck fence landing at Kempsey, NSW, 9.6.40. 1 SFTS 10.7.40. Forced landing at Hedley, near Woodside, Vic 2.12.40. Guinea Airways overhaul 1.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 9.3.42. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    N4970.1 AD 6.4.39. 12 Sqn 27.6.39. 13 Sqn 1.6.40. Pt Cook Store 1.7.40. Armament School 14.7.40. 1 SFTS 22.9.40. 2 SFTS (date?). Engine failure on take-off Wagga Wagga, NSW, 4.4.41. 3 SFTS 5.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Force landed with wheels retracted on beach at Plank Point, SA, 28.6.43.
    N4977.2 AD 14.4.39. 6 Sqn "F" 6.9.39. Forced landing after engine failure Moruya, NSW, 10.4.40. CFS 29.5.40. Heavy landing, Camden, NSW, 10.11.40. 2 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS "8" 28.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with R3558 when landing Geraldton, WA 20.12.41. ANA 17.1.42. 4 SFTS 15.2.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.3.47.
    N4984.1 AD 12.4.39. 1 FTS 12.7.37. Became 1 SFTS 1.5.40. 2 SFTS (29.7.40?). 3 SFTS 20.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Amberley, Qld, 23.11.40. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett 8.9.43. 1 AD 7.3.44. 2 AOS 15.3.44. SOC 16.7.47.
    N4996.2 AD 14.4.39. 1 Sqn 19.2.40. 1 SFTS 30.5.40. Forced landing after engine failure 1mile east of Murtoa, Vic, 13.6.40. Taxied into stationary A4-48, Point Cook, Vic, 19.9.40. 2 SFTS 17.10.40. 1 AD 22.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 8.2.43. 4 SFTS 12.7.43. Struck ground on night approach, Kojarena SLG, WA, 25.7.43.
    N5003.1 AD 12.4.39. 1 FTS 12.7.39. GRS 11.12.39. Crashed Essendon, Vic, while en route to Yanakie 12.9.40. 1 AD 3.11.40. GRS 24.12.40. 1 AD 14.9.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Turret removed 23.1.42. Scrapped 18.11.43.
    N9616.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 19.2.41. Forced landing after engine failure near Amberley, Qld, 24.10.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Extensively damaged in taxying accident, Mallala, SA, 18.5.43. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    N9775.2 AP 18.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 4.4.41. Undercarriage collapsed during forced landing, Amberley, Qld, 20.5.41. 1 SFTS 12.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. Guinea Airways 20.10.43. 1 EFTS (temp) 11.5.44. 8 SFTS 16.6.44. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.47. [Coded "47" at some stage).
    N9902.2 AP 18.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 13.4.41. Crashed during instrument flying exercise near Dinmore, 5 miles east of Ipswich, Qld, 17.6.41. 3 crew, Sgt J Edwards (pilot), LACs B.W. Reynolds and H.E. Pym all killed.
    N9953.2 AD 18.11.40. 2 SFTS 8.12.40. 3 SFTS 3.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Taxied into gun pit, Bundaberg, Qld, 13.7.42. APL (?) 2.4.43. 3 AD 1.5.44. 8 SFTS 8.5.44. CMU Evans Head 7.7.45. SOC 6.2.46.
    N9954.2 AP 25.11.40. 3 SFTS 30.12.40. Forced landing 8 miles north east of Landsborough, Qld, 24.2.41. Qantas 28.2.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 8.4.42. 1 AOS 8.7.42. Ansett 5.1.43. 2 AP 22.7.43. 6 SFTS 28.7.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    N9981.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 19.2.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 1 AOS 25.6.42. Marshall Airways 3.9.42. 2 AP 7.7.43. 6 SFTS 19.7.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    NK153.1 AP 22.5.44. 8 SFTS 14.8.44. 3 AD 27.1.45. Survey Flt 2.4.45. SHQ Richmond for use of CSIR 15.7.46. Target Towing and Special Duties Flt 6.8.46. 2 AD 14.5.47. SOC 24.6.48.
    NL153.(Mk XII). 2 AD 30.1.45. SHQ Canberra for use of VIP Flt (Governor General’s Flt) 26.2.45. Stbd undercarriage collapsed while taxying, Canberra, ACT 21.3.45. SHQ Canberra 2.6.47. 4 Sqn (date?). CFS (date?). Sold 23.2.53. CoR No 2110 as VH-PDC issued 20.8.54 to M.W. Hopp,(trading as Petroleum Development Corpn„Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered VH-GVB 19.11.54 to Sir Reginald J. Barnewell, Melbourne, Vic. Transferred 21.12.54 to Southern Airlines Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic, named 'Yanga'. Burst tyre on takeoff from Deniliquin, NSW, 13.3.55 and substantially damaged during ground loop on landing Corowa NSW. Cancelled 13.3.55.
    R3334.1AD 23.5.40. 1 AOS "O" 1.7.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Butler Air Transport 9.3.42. 2 AD 1.12.42. 8 SFTS 6.1.43. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. While stationery hit by AX126 taking off, Bundaberg 27.1.44. 3 WAGS 17.7.44. 8 SFTS 4.9.44. Maryborough 18.6.45. Sold 14.3.47. Registered as VH-BBW. CoR No 1514 issued 24.2.48 to Townsville and Country Airways Pty Ltd, Townsville, Qld. CofA lapsed 11.2.49. Cancelled 4.5.51.
    R3337.1 AD 23.5.40. 1 AOS "N" 26.6.40. Butler Air Transport 30.7.41. 1 ANS "N" 19.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing 1 mile north of Ungarie, NSW, 24.5.42. Conv to components 22.12.42.
    R3339.1 AD 23.5.40. 1 AOS 1.7.40. 1 WAGS 7.10.40. Control column jammed on take-off, lost undercarriage on fence, Ballarat and force landed 6.11.40. 1 AD 10.11.40. 1 WAGS 12.1.41. 2 AOS 20.2.41. 2 AD 6.4.41. 2 AOS 25.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Engine failure and force landed 7 miles east of Harrow, Vic, 6.3.42. 7 AD 2.5.43. Ansett 8.9.44. Conv to components 18.4.45.
    R3342.1 AD 23.5.40. 2 SFTS 21.7.40. 1 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 14.6.43. 4 SFTS 3.1.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Stored Cat ‘D’ 10.4.46. Sold by CDC to Airlines (WA) Ltd 30.6.47.
    R3378.1 AD 18.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Ground looped on landing and undercarriage collapsed, Amberley, Qld 29.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways 13.4.43. 6 SFTS 15.9.43. Taxying accident with W2378 Mallala, SA, 27.2.44. Guinea Airways 21.5.44. 6 SFTS 7.12.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3453.1 AD 7.6.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS "62" 27.7.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Collided with R3453 on take-off, Amberley, Qld, 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Converted to ‘Instructional No. 9’ 18.7.44. No further info.
    R3455.1 AD 7.6.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 27.7.40. 1 AD 22.2.41. 4 SFTS "9" 27.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Engine failure and forced landing Georgina SLG, WA, 7.1.42. Collided with W2278 during night take-off, Kojarena SLG, WA, 20.7.42. Converted to components 10.8.42.
    R3456.1 AD 7.6.40. 2 SFTS 21.7.40. 3 SFTS 4.4.41. Undercarriage collapsed while taxying, Amberley, Qld, 14.4.41. Taxying accident, Amberley, Qld, 5.12.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Landed with undercarriage retracted, Amberley, Qld, 3.3.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett 8.4.43. 1 AD 18.10.43. 6 SFTS 8.11.43. Overshot flare path and ran through fence during night landing, Mallala, SA, 1.1.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3457.1 AD 7.6.40. 2 AP 8.7.40. 2 SFTS 27.7.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Forced landing Geraldton, WA, 8.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Precautionary Landing, Geraldton, WA, 22.5.42. ANA 26.6.44. 4 SFTS 8.1.45. CMU Evans Head 31.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    R3474.2 AP 15.7.40. 2 SFTS 29.7.40. 4 SFTS 27.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with R3474, Geraldton, WA, 18.12.42. ANA Maylands 14.6.43. 35 Sqn 8.10.43. ANA 6.11.43. 7 CU 28.11.43. ANA for overhaul 29.4.45. 4 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    R3475.1 AD 15.6.40. 2 SFTS 21.7.40. 3 SFTS 20.2.41. Struck windsock mast during approach in ground fog, Amberley, Qld, 13.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Overshot and collided with R9897, Amberley, Qld, 12.2.42. Qantas 23.2.42. 8 SFTS 11.8.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Lost and forced landed in sea near Woody Island (In Hervey Bay?), Qld, 10.1.43.
    R3512.2 AP 20.7.40. 1 SFTS 2.8.40. Taxied into R3545 at night, Point Cook, Vic, 14.9.40. 1 WAGS 14.10.40. 2 AOS 2.3.41. 1 AD 15.4.41. 2 AOS 3.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett 24.4.42. 1 AD 25.9.42. 2 AOS 5.10.42. 1 WAGS 25.11.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier 1.1.46. 2 OUT store 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    R3516.1 AD 15.6.40. 2 SFTS 21.7.40. 2 AOS 11.3.41. 1 AD 27.3.41. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Taxied into portable compressor Geraldton, WA, 19.12.41. Collided with W2080 after take-off, Geraldton, WA, 28.1.43. ANA 23.8.43. 4 SFTS 3.7.44. CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    R3518.1 AD 15.6.40. 2 SFTS 21.7.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Fitted turret 15.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Lost control in cloud and crashed into hillside 9 miles south of Angaston, SA, 1.7.43. LAC Gordon Rex Young (student pilot) killed.
    R3520.1 AD 4.7.40. 2 AP 19.8.40. 1 SFTS 6.9.40. GRS 1.10.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Guinea Airways 31.5.43. 6 SFTS 25.10.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3521.2 AP 11.7.40. 1 SFTS 5.8.40. Forced landing in bad weather, Yurammie (?Yarralumla?), ACT, 22.12.40. 1 AD 4.2.41. 1 SFTS 24.4.41. 6 SFTS 8.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped on landing Mallala, SA, 24.12.42. Ansett 25.3.43. 1 AD 6.9.43. 6 SFTS 7.9.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3524.2 AP 15.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 1 AD 24.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 24.7.43. 4 SFTS 7.2.44. 87 OBU storage 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    R3525.1 AD 4.7.40. 2 AP 19.8.40. 1 SFTS 6.9.40. 1 AD 2.2.41. 1 SFTS 19.2.41. 2 AOS 17.10.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Force landed after engine failure 24 miles south-east of Hamilton, Vic, 16.4.42. Ansett 27.4.42. 1 AD 8.12.42. 1 ANS 21.12.42. 2 WAGS 21.12.43. Ansett 27.12.43. 2 AP 28.5.44. Fitted W/t equipment 29.6.44. 10 CU 6.10.44. 2 AOS 11.2.45. 8 CU 20.6.45. Landed in sea on approach 1 mile south-west of Lae strip, PNG, 2.8.45.
    R3528.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 20.7.40. 1 SFTS 2.8.40. 1 WAGS 14.10.40. Forced landing, Ballarat, Vic, 26.12.40. 1 AD 1.1.41. 2 AOS 1.3.41. Taxied into concrete block, Parafield, SA, 28.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett 3.3.43. 1 CF 4.10.43. 7 CU 20.5.44. ANA 28.4.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    R3529.2 AP 11.7.40. 1 AOS 2.8.40. 1 WAGS 28.10.40. Force landed after engine failure, Ballarat, Vic, 29.1.41. 2 AOS 1.3.41. Struck telegraph wires when flying low in bad weather, Nelson, Vic 6.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 7 AD 30.4.43. 7 CRD 21.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45. (Coded "29" at some stage).
    R3530.2 AP 11.7.40. 1 SFTS 2.9.40. 2 AOS 17.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Overshot and struck fence, Cootamundra, NSW, 2.3.42. Struck foliage, Mount Gambier, SA, 7.9.42. Ansett for overhaul 16.11.42. 1 AD 22.4.43. 6 SFTS 17.5.43. Undercarriage failed when landing Mallala, SA, 25.2.45. Guinea Airways 12.3.45. 6 SFTS 2.10.45. CMU Mallala 1.1.46. CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Sold 20.8.46. Registered as VH-AYE. CoR No 1086. Issued 30.9.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transfer 21.7.47 to Dr T.M.S. Hall, Toowoomba, Qld. Cancelled 29.10.47. Restored 7.6.48. Force landed after engine failure at Tuggerah Lakes, NSW, 9.12.50. Cannibalised for spares. Cancelled 6.4.51.
    R3531.2 AP 11.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 7.4.41. Forced landing in bad weather, Ballina, NSW, 23.4.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Tyre burst while taxying, Mallala, SA, 9.4.42. Ansett 15.2.44. 1 AD 17.10.44. 8 SFTS 23.10.44. 88 OBU 1.6.45. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    R3532.1 AD 4.7.40. 2 AP 19.8.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Mid-air collision with R3554, Amberley, Qld 15.5.41. While stationary, hit by R9897, Amberley, Qld, 27.10.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Taxied into W2001, Amberley, Qld, 15.2.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 18.2.46. CMU Mallala 6.9.46. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3537.1 AD 4.7.40. 2 AP 19.8.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 20.4.41. Forced landing, Maryborough, Qld, 23.11.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett 7.6.43. 1 AD 1.11.43. 6 SFTS 5.11.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3539.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 20.7.40. 1 AOS 2.8.40. Undercarriage collapsed while taking off, Cootamundra, NSW, 10.12.41. Butler Air Transport 3.1.42. 2 AD 17.8.42. 1 RIMU 12.10.42. 2 AOS 18.1.43. Ansett 7.3.45. 1 AD 1.8.45. 11 EFTS storage 28.8.45. 8 CU 6.12.45. 111 ASR Flight 28.1.46. Moresby 13.1.47. Sold to Guinea Air Traders 21.4.47.
    R3540.2 AP 11.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. Broke up in the air and crashed, Wagga Wagga Experimental farm, NSW, 6.9.40.
    R3541.2 AP 11.7.40. 1 SFTS 5.8.40. Forced landing due weather, Point Cook, Vic, 14.8.40. While stationary at night struck by A4-41, Point Cook, Vic, 3.9.40. 6 SFTS 8.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 7 AD 13.3.43. 7 CRD 21.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    R3542.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 13.4.42. Mid-air collision with W2165 while changing formation during low-level formation flying, Monteith, near Murray Bridge, SA, 4.8.42. 4 killed in each aircraft. In this aircraft F/O Lawrence Vivian Wotzko (pilot), Sgt Gordon Cooper (observer), LACs (trainees) Leslie Cadd and Norman Dudley Haines.
    R3543.2 AP 11.7.40. 1 AOS 2.8.40. Hit by taxying Dragon, Cootamundra, NSW, 20.9.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Butler Air transport 20.4.42. Marshall Airways 24.7.42. 2 AD 11.11.42. 1 AOS 21.12.42. 2 AP 9.10.44. Ansett overhaul 1945 (date?) 2 AD for fire patrol 12.11.45. Damaged by hailstorm, Richmond, NSW, 25.4.46. Sold to E.E. McIlree 10.12.46. Registration VH-BLE reserved but not taken up. (pencilled note in register says "aircraft still being overhauled 4.10.49). Stored Camden NSW. Scrapped 1960.
    R3544.2 AP 11.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 1 AD 22.2.41. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Starboard wheel collapsed taxying, Geraldton, WA, 20.6.41. Forced landing in bad weather, Coorow, WA, 18.9.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. ANA 18.3.43. 4 SFTS 16.8.43. 87 OBU 1.6.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    R3548.2 AP 15.7.40. 2 SFTS 19.8.40. 1 AD 22.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Mid-air collision with R3555, Geraldton, WA, 9.3.43. Forced landing 4 miles south-east of Georgina SLG, WA, 29.2.44. ANA Maylands13.1.45. Repair stopped 18.8.45. 4 CRD 26.11.45. 14 ARD 21.3.46. Sold 8.5.47. CoR No 1358 as VH-MMC issued to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Perth, WA 24.6.47. Named 'RMA Strelley'. Transferred 1.10.55 to Commercial Aviation Pty Ltd, (same address) Perth, WA. Transferred 13.9.56 to Papuan Air Transport Ltd, Port Moresby, NG. CofA expired and aircraft withdrawn from use 12.10.58. Donated to Port Moresby kindergarten and reported scrapped there (date?).
  • Images of R3548.
  • R3549.2 AP (date?). 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Damaged when tail swung into air compressor while taxying, Georgina SLG, WA, 12.3.42. Starboard undercarriage collapsed after landing Georgina SLG, 8.10.42. Overshot and hit fence when making forced landing after port engine failure, Geraldton, WA, 6.1.43. ANA overhaul; 13.8.43. 4 SFTS 10.4.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 28.2.47. CoR No 1382 as VH-BIU issued 8.9.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Engine failed and aircraft struck trees on take-off, Cue W.A. 29.6.48. Cancelled 9.12.48 as "dismantled".
    R3550.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 18.8.40. 4 SFTS "4" 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 16.11.42. 4 SFTS 3.5.43. Struck trees on take-off Georgina SLG, WA, 21.7.43. Converted to components 19.8.43.
    R3551.2 AP 11.7.40. 2 SFTS 18.8.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Undercarriage collapsed taxying, Georgina SLG, WA, 5.8.42. ANA 10.4.44. 4 SFTS 28.8.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold to M.W. Couper, Mount Barker, WA, 14.5.47.
    R3552.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 2 AOS 11.3.41. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Struck by N4902 in hangar, Geraldton, WA, 24.3.42. ANA 31.5.43. 4 SFTS 13.12.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    R3553.2 AP 11.7.40. 2 SFTS 19.8.40. 3 SFTS 20.4.41. Starboard wing struck trees while low flying 14.7.41. Hit trees at night and crashed 1 mile south-west of Amberley, Qld, 30.7.41.
    R3554.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 29.7.40. 2 SFTS 19.8.40. 3 SFTS 17.3.41. Mid-air collision with ? 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 8.11.43. 4 SFTS 26.6.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    R3555.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 18.8.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Mid-air collision with R3548, Geraldton, WA, 9.3.43. ANA 14.8.43. 4 SFTS 24.4.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold to Airlines (WA) Pty Ltd 30.6.47.
    R3556.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 18.8.40. 4 SFTS 3.3.41. Collided with W1560 on take-off, Geraldton, WA, 17.3.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into stationary R9899 at night, Geraldton, WA, 9.8.43. ANA Maylands 24.9.43. 4 SFTS Technical Salvage Section 21.12.43. SOC 15.12.43. Converted to components 14.3.44.
    R3557.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Undercarriage collapsed during ground loop on take-off, Geraldton, WA, 13.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after stbd engine failure, Georgina SLG, WA, 24.4.42. Collided with W2131 and W2501 taxying in strong wind, Georgina SLG 24.11.42. Converted to components 14.3.44 after being assessed as having twisted fuselage.
    R3558.1 AD 11.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.8.40. 4 SFTS "4" 1.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with N4977, Geraldton, WA, 19.12.41. ANA 11.1.42. Converted to components 14.4.42.
    R3559.2 AP 18.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 4 SFTS 1.4.41. Skidded into fence after landing, Geraldton, WA, 11.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 6.3.44. 4 SFTS 31.8.44. 87 OBU 1.6.45. CMU Evans Head 24.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    R3560.1 AD 18.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Forced landing, Maryborough, Qld, 4.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 25.1.43. 6 SFTS 30.9.43. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    R3561.2AP 18.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Ran through fence when making forced landing with engine failure, Ashgrove Hill, Gympie, Qld, 20.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. While taxying was hit by P-40 Kittyhawk A29-650, which was taking off, Amberley, Qld, 24.4.42. 6 SFTS 13.4.42. Crashed in rainstorm 5 miles north of Hoyleton, SA, 13.5.42. LAC David Alwyn Checci (student pilot) killed.
    R3581.1 AD 18.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 2 SFTS 2.9.40. Hit tree tops 6 miles south-east of Wagga Wagga, NSW, 12.2.41. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Hit fence during forced landing at Lowood, 6 miles south-west of Amberley, Qld, 26.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 6.9.43. 6 SFTS 29.2.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    R3582.2 AP 18.7.40. 2 SFTS 16.9.40. 3 SFTS 4.4.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn 10.42. 6 SFTS 7.12.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 20.1.44. 6 SFTS 31.7.44. CMU Mallala 1.1.46. CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Sold 26.6.46. CoR No 1025 as VH-AST issued 2.8.46 to F.W. Sutton, Sydney. NSW. Transferred 29.10.46 to Australian Air Traders, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 14.4.47 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd, Lae, PNG. Failed glue test at Lae. Cancelled 15.11.47. Reduced to parts, Lae, PNG, 10.3.48.
    R3583.1 AD 18.7.40. 2 AP 22.7.40. 1 SFTS 2.9.40. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 7 AD 20.4.43. 7 CRD 21.5.45. Converted to components 9.6.45.
    R9743.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 24.2.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 6 SFTS 30.11.42. 4 AD 23.11.43. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    R9883.2 AP 28.10.40. 1 ANS 18.11.40. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 1 WAGS 12.9.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Ansett, Essendon, Vic 30.11.44. 1 AD 30.4.45. Offered to RNZAF 1.5.45 (not taken up) 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. Sold 14.8.46. CoR No 1159 as VH-AVT issued 9.1.47 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Suspended 19.12.47 - 30.12.47. Reregistered VH-AGA 1.4.57 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Emergency landing after starboard engine failure, Mangalore, Vic, 20.3.48. Transferred 5.1.59 to Sepal Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Registration cancelled 18.7.62 at direction of Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) (Note: In mid 1961 the Dept of Civil Aviation announced that Anson Mk 1 aircraft would be grounded and de-registered from 1.7.62 because of concern about deterioration of the glued joints in wooden wings. Over-water and passenger carrying flights were banned from 1.1.62.). Donated to Camden Museum of Aviation 9.63 and currently displayed at Narellan, NSW as 'R9883' although originally displayed as 'N5151'. Current. # Images of R9883.
    R9884.2 AP 28.10.40. 1 ANS 18.11.40. Ran through fence during forced landing after engine failure, Condobolin, NSW, 31.12.40. Clyde Engineering Co 7.2.41. 1 ANS 4.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 16.4.44. 8 SFTS 1.11.44. School of Photography 21.5.45. 10 EFTS storage 25.1.46. Sold to D.N. Dalton, Albury, NSW, 8.8.47.
    R9885.2 AP 28.10.40. 1 ANS 18.11.40. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Narromine, NSW, 28.1.42. Ansett 21.1.44. 2 AP 3.7.44. GRS 17.7.44. SOC 16.10.47.
    R9886.2 AP 28.10.40. 3 SFTS 18.11.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 1.6.42. Pilot felt ill during navigation exercise and warned crew to be ready to bail out. LAC Geoffrey David Abbott evidently misunderstood instructions and bailed out before he could be stopped. Parachute drifted out to sea 1.5 miles south-west of Port Macdonnell, SA, and he drowned 27.5.43. Guinea Airways 20.11.43. 6 SFTS 28.7.44. 2 AOS 10.8.44. CMU Mount Gambier for bushfire patrols 15.1.46. SOC 6.8.47.
    R9887.2 AP 28.10.40. 3 SFTS 18.11.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 6.4.42. 2 ANS 26.1.43. Undershot and hit tree tops and fence, Nhill, Vic, 14.4.43. 3 AOS 7.12.43. 6 SFTS 22.2.44. SOC 20.8.47.
    R9888.2 AP 28.10.40. 1 ANS 18.11.40. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing due fuel shortage 8 miles north of Junee, NSW, 29.1.42. Ansett overhaul 18.10.43. 2 AP 20.6.44. 6 SFTS 26.6.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    R9894.2 AP 25.11.40. 3 SFTS 20.12.40. Forced landing with undercarriage retracted, Ten Mile Swamp, south-west of Amberley, Qld, 1.11.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 8.4.42. 1 AOS 6.7.42. Ansett 16.11.42. 2 AP 5.6.43. GRS 8.6.43. SOC 16.10.47.
    R9896.2 AP 25.11.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 13.1.41. Swung and ground lopped on take-off (Amberley, Qld?) 26.2.41. Taxied into by W1545, Amberley, Qld, 18.6.41. 1 SFTS 12.4.42. 1 AOS 6.7.42. Ansett 14.9.42. 2 AP 8.2.43. GRS 16.2.43. 1 CRD storage 20.9.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    R9897.2AP 25.11.40. 1 AD 11.12.40. 3 SFTS 13.1.41. Collided with stationary R3522 (sic) Amberley, Qld, 12.2.42. Qantas 23.2.42. 3 AD 13.7.42. 8 SFTS 15.7.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. 1 WAGS 28.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 16.5.46.
    R9898.2 AP 25.11.40. 2 SFTS 15.12.40. Dinghy broke away from stowage in flight, near Wantabadgery, NSW, 11.1.41. Engine failure on take-off, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 26.2.41. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Ground looped and undercarriage collapsed on take-off, Amberley, Qld, 3.7.41. Turret fitted 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 24.8.42. 2 ANS 24.8.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP overhaul 16.4.44. GRS 20.11.44. Sold to W.T. Dwyer, Brunswick, Vic, 29.8.47.
    R9899.2 AP 25.11.40. 2 SFTS 15.12.40. 4 SFTS "24" 24.2.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Tail hit by taxying R3556 at night, Geraldton, WA, 9.8.43. ANA 12.9.43. 4 SFTS 22.5.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 3.2.47. CoR No 1350 as VH-BFC issued 1.7.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Transferred 19.5.48 to Aerial Surveys (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Undercarriage collapsed in forced landing Wallaroo, SA, 31.8.51. Cancelled 15.1.52.
    R9928.2 AP 25.11.40. 2 SFTS 7.12.40. 3 SFTS 13.4.41. Turret fitted 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 8.4.42. 1 AOS 25.6.42. Butler Air Transport 14.9.42. 2 AP 11.2.43. 2 ANS 12.2.43. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 4 SFTS 20.3.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    R9935.2 AP 28.10.40. 3 SFTS 18.11.40. Forced landing after engine failure, Amberley, Qld, 3.6.41. Turret fitted 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 1 AOS 6.7.42. Marshall Airways 19.10.42. 2 AP 16.9.43. GRS 23.9.43. 67 Sqn “MK-K” 12.5.44. 11 EFTS storage 26.9.45. SOC 12.5.48. Cockpit under restoration by Dave Perrott 3.06.
    R9936.2 AP 28.10.40. 3 SFTS 18.11.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Taxied into stationary W1718, Amberley, Qld, 24.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 1 AOS 3.9.42. Ansett overhaul 10.11.42. 2 AP 28.5.43. 1 WAGS 28.6.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. 2 OTU storage 6.2.46. CMU Mount Gambier 1.1.47. SOC 16.7.47.
    VM374.(Mk XIX) 1 AD 28.11.47. 2 CS 22.12.47. 34 Sqn (date?). Crash landed with wheels up after engine failure at low altitude, 11 miles north-east of Port Lincon, SA, 15.12.54. Converted to components 25.3.55.
    VM375.(Mk XIX) 1 AD 28.11.47. 2 CS 18.12.47. VIP Flt (date?). 34 Sqn (date?) Air Trials Unit storage 13.10.55. Sold 21.3.57. CoR No 2877 as VH-BIX issued 21.5.57 to R.G. Carswell, trading as Carsair Air Service, Port Moresby, NG (later Archerfield Qld). Leased 10.60 to Air Culture Pty Ltd and operated by Ross International Fisheries Pty Ltd, Maylands, perth, WA, as crayfish transporter. Forced landed with full load of crayfish 7 miles north of Lancelin, WA, 22.3.61 following engine failure and damaged beyond repair. Sold to Brain and Brown Air freighters for spares 3.61. Mainplane, tailplane, engines etc, trucked to Melbourne for VH-BAF rebuild. Cancelled 28.3.62. Fuselage scrapped Maylands .63.
    W1521.2 AP 18.11.40. 2 SFTS 8.12.40. 2 AOS 11.3.41. 1 AD 27.3.41. 4 SFTS 31.3.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA overhaul 23.8.43. 4 SFTS 3.4.44. 87 OBU 7.45. CMU Evans Head 31.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W1522.2 AP 25.11.40. 2 SFTS 15.12.40. 4 SFTS "28" 10.2.41. Torn from tie downs in storm, Geraldton, WA, 4.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Converted to components 21.1.44.
    W1529.2 AP 18.11.40. 1 SFTS 29.11.40. Landed downwind and wiped undercarriage off, Werribee SLG, Vic, 24.4.40. 1 AD 28.4.41. 1 SFTS 18.6.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Guinea Airways 8.7.43. 6 SFTS 15.11.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    W1530.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 27.1.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 27.4.42. 1 AD 13.10.42. 2 ANS 16.10.42. 3 AOS 7.12.43. 4 SFTS 28.2.44. ANA 19.6.44. 4 SFTS 13.11.44. 7 CU for ambulance duty 4.12.44. Damaged by cyclone, Learmonth, WA, 2/3.2.45. ANA 28.3.45. 4 CRD 28.7.45. SOC 18.10.45.
    W1531.2 AP 25.11.40. 3 SFTS 20.12.40. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 4 SFTS 26.10.42. Caught fire and burnt out while taxying when exhaust spark lit grass, Geraldton, WA, 4.11.43. Converted to components 22.11.43.
    W1532.2 AP 25.11.40. 3 SFTS 20.12.40. Forced landing after engine failure on take-off, Amberley, Qld, 5.6.41. Taxied into by W1718 at night, Amberley, Qld, 1.8.41. Turret fitted 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 27.4.42. Struck AW486 while taxying, Bairnsdale, Vic, 21.7.42. Ansett overhaul 22.11.43. 1 AD 21.8.44. SHQ Laverton for bush fire patrol 6.11.44. 11 EFTS storage 4.10.45. Sold 23.3.48. Reservation for W1532 as VH-BOI for D.J. Bourke, trading as Corio Air Engineers, Geelong, Vic, 4.50. NOT TAKEN UP. CoR No 1703 as VH-DJB issued 21.12.50 to D.J. Bourke, Geelong, Vic trading as Southern Airlines. Transferred 19.1.52 to Robby's Aircraft Repair Co Ltd, Parafield, SA. Re-registered VH-RAS 15.2.52. Transferred 27.6.59 to Robby's Aerial Services Ltd, Parafield, SA. Re-registered VH-DOB 16.2.61 to W.T. Dobson, South Oakleigh, Vic. CofA lapsed .61. Withdrawn from use 30.6.62 "by direction of DGCA". Broken up at Parafield, SA, 28.8.64 - Fuselage and wings to St John's Ambulance for rescue training 9.64. Remains burned at Parafield 1.66.
  • Images of W1532.
  • W1533.2 AP 3.12.40. 3 SFTS 27.1.41. Mid-air collision with W1535 11 miles north-west of Casino, NSW, 4.3.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. While bogged down was hit by USAAF P-40E that was taking off, Amberley, Qld, 22.2.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 1.6.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. 1 AOS 13.12.43. APL (?) 10.4.44. 6 SFTS 28.12.44. CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. Last reported for sale Point Cook 24.4.53.
    W1534.2 AP 3.12.40. 3 SFTS "86" 18.1.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 12.4.42. 1 AD 10.7.42. Ansett 2.11.42. 1 AD 30.3.43. GRS 5.4.43. Forced landing in swampy gound and overturned 6 miles east of Nowra, NSW, 9.9.43.
    W1535.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 8.1.41. 3 SFTS 13.1.41. Mid-air collision with W1533 11 miles north-west of Casino, NSW, 4.3.41.
    W1537.2 AP 3.12.40. 3 SFTS 13.1.41. Ground looped on landing, Amberley, Qld, 12.12.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 13.8.43. 6 SFTS 6.12.43. SOC 30.5.47.
    W1538.2 AP 18.11.40. 1 SFTS 29.11.40. 6 SFTS 4.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett 7.9.43. 1 AD 8.2.44. 6 SFTS "60" 10.2.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    W1539.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 27.1.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 8.4.42. 1 ANS 7.7.42. Ansett overhaul 14.6.43. 2 AP 5.2.44. 8 SFTS 11.1.44. Maryborough 18.6.45. Sold 23.1.47. CoR No 1298 as VH-BAJ issued 11.3.47 to Townsville & Country Airways, c/- J. Montgomery, Townsville, Qld. Suspended 19.12.47 - 9.7.48. Withdrawn from use Townsville 8.7.49. Cancelled 26.4.51.
    W1540.2 AP 18.11.40. 1 SFTS 29.11.40. 6 SFTS 4.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure 8 miles north of Kapunda, SA, 13.3.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 6 SFTS 13.10.42. Guinea Airways 3.9.43. 2 AOS 12.4.44. CMU Mount Gambier 1.1.46. 2 OUT storage 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    W1544.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 18.1.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 4 SFTS 26.10.42. ANA 25.11.42. 35 Sqn, Pearce, WA 21.5.43. 7 CU 10.11.43. Ground looped after landing Yanrey, WA, 10.7.45.
    W1545.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 18.1.41. Taxied into stationary R9896, Amberley, Qld, 18.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Hit boundary fence on take-off, Kingaroy, Qld, 20.3.42. 1 SFTS 17.4.42. 2 ANS 8.6.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Guinea Airways 24.1.44. 6 SFTS 13.2.45. Sold to Guinea Airways 10.10.46.
    W1546.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 5.1.41. 3 SFTS 27.1.41. Taxied into stationary W1599, Amberley, Qld, 16.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Forced landing, Kingaroy, Qld, 23.2.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 6 SFTS 31.8.42. 4 AD 23.11.43. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    W1547.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 3 SFTS 18.1.41. While stationary, hit by W1547, Amberley, Qld, 18.12.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Collided with W1718 on approach, Amberley, Qld, 16.2.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 2 AOS 21.12.42. Ansett 20.7.43. 1 AD 7.12.43. 2 AOS 13.12.43. CMU Mount Gambier 1.1.46. 2 OUT storage 6.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    W1559.2 AP 18.11.40. 1 SFTS 29.11.40. Hit fence after precautionary landing, Truganina, Vic, 19.3.41. 2 AOS 3.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 16.1.42. APL (?) 30.7.43. 3 AD 22.5.44. 2 AP 19.6.44. 10 CU 20.10.44. 2 AOS 5.2.45. CMU Mount Gambier 15.1.46. SOC 21.2.47.
    W1560.2 AP 18.11.40. 2 SFTS 8.12.40. 1 AD 16.2.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Collided with R3556 on take-off, Geraldton, WA, 17.3.41. Torn from pickets in gale, Geraldton, Vic, 4.4.41. Collided with W1717 while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 17.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure Kojarena SLG, WA, 25.2.43. ANA 4.12.43. Converted to components 21.1.44.
    W1580.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 8.1.41. 3 SFTS 13.1.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Archerfield, Qld, 21.1.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. GRS 16.5.43. Ditched after engine failure 18 miles off the coast near Lakes Entrance, Vic, 30.5.44.
    W1584.2 AP 19.10.40. No fuselage delivered. SOC 25.7.41.
    W1585.2 AP 19.10.40. No fuselage delivered. SOC 25.7.41.
    W1587.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 1 ANS 23.1.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. Port wing, engine and undercarriage damaged in landing, Rockhampton, Qld, 25.6.42. Forced landing during night exercise, Bundaberg, Qld, 20.9.43. Aircrafts Pty Ltd, Archerfield, Qld, 4.10.43. 3 AD 29.6.44. 8 SFTS 22.7.44. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. CMU Maryborough 28.2.46. Sold 2.1.47 to Cairns Flying School, Cairns, Qld. Ferried to Cairns and used as spares for operation of VH-BBC. Sold to Australian Air Traders, Sydney 8.47 and ferried to Bankstown, NSW. CoR No 1745 as VH-BNS issued 9.11.50 to Airflite (Training) Pty Ltd, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred 23.1.53 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot , NSW. Crashed on take off at Moorabbin, Vic 3.4.53 after starboard engine failed. Struck off Register 2.6.54 at owner's request.
  • Images of W1587.
  • W1588.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 22.12.40. 1 ANS 23.1.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 23.1.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 28.10.42. Collided in formation with W1945 (where?) 26.7.43. Force landed in cane field after engine failure 3 miles east of Childers, Qld, 28.11.43.
    W1589.2 AP 3.12.40. 1 AD 24.12.40. 1 ANS 23.1.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett overhaul 25.10.43. 2 AP 16.3.44. 9 CU 4.4.44. Ansett 25.11.44. 67 Sqn "MK-E" 2.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 20.9.45. Became CMU Benalla (date?). 3 AD 16.7.48. SAN 19.11.48. East sale storage 25.8.50. 1 AD 10.11.50. Sold to Murdock, Burgoyne & Blackman, Brighton, Vic, 25.3.54.
    W1599.1 AD 18.12.40. 3 SFTS 4.2.41. Port wheel struck cabin roof of A4-10, (where?) 9.5.41. Taxied into by W1546, Amberley, Qld, 16.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 6.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 2 ANS 27.12.42. Crew abandoned aircraft after engine failure at 2,000 ft, aircraft crashed 7 miles east of Mildura, Vic, 23.4.43.
    W1601.1 Ad 18.12.40. 3 SFTS 4.2.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 6.4.42. 6 SFTS 31.8.42. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    W1604.2 AP 16.5.41. 1 AOS 21.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. APL overhaul 1.5.44. 3 AD 5.1.44. 6 SFTS 24.1.45. Sold 13.9.46 to E.H. Loneragan in lieu of LT711. CoR No 1275 as VH-AKB issued 21.4.47 to Vacuum Oil Co Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic. Transferred to E.F. Reid trading as Milne Bay Merchants, Milne Bay, PNG, 15.11.47. Transferred to Thiess Bros Pty Ltd , Brisbane, Qld, 6.6.48. Canc as reduced to spares 29.6.48. Restored to Thiess Bros Pty Ltd, Sydney NSW, 27.7.48. Transferred to E.Reid Port Moresby, NG, .55. Transferred to R.G. Carswell Archerfield, Qld and later trading as Carsair, Port Moresby, NG, .55. Transferred to J.A. Bjelke-Petersen, Kingaroy, Qld 22.5.56. Withdrawn from use Kingaroy and cancelled 13.5.60 and parked on farm. Remains collected by Ralph Cusack, Brisbane, for parts for an Anson restoration project for a museum (which?).
    W1605.2 AP 16.5.41. No fuselage delivered. SOC 25.7.41.
    W1608.2 AP 16.5.41. 1 AOS 28.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. Hit a tree and crashed while trying to make forced landing when lost at night in bad weather 2 miles north of Biggenden, Qld. 5.6.42. Sgt J.G. Hodges (pilot) and Sgts S.L Kilpatrick and T.B. Clarke killed.
    W1609.2 AP 16.5.41. No fuselage delivered. SOC 25.7.41.
    W1655.2 AP 14.4.41. 1 AOS 28.6.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. Crashed at night with fuel starvation near Burnett River, Qld, 30.3.42.
    W1657.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 19.2.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 6.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. Guinea Airways 12.11.43. 4 SFTS 3.7.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 17.9.46. CoR No 1172 as VH-AXV issued 7.1.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd., Perth, WA "RMA Albany". Re-registered VH-BXV 7.12.48 when AXV became a prohibited marking, still with Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Transferred 12.3.54 to A.H. Gibson and K. Reynolds, Carnarvon, WA. Transferred 8.12.54 to Westralian Oil Ltd, West Perth, WA. Withdrawn from use Cunderdin, WA. Cancelled as "C of A lapsed" 29.11.60. Became derelict.
    W1658.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 19.2.41. Force landed and hit fence after engine failure, Rosewood RLG, Qld, 1.12.41. Qantas 2.1.42. 8 SFTS 10.3.42. Crashed while lost on a night cross-country, 20 miles south of Biggenden, Qld 19.5.42.
    W1663.2 AP 22.1.41. Forced landing during delivery to 3 SFTS, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 23.2.41. Qantas 28.2.41. 3 SFTS 26.9.41. Swung on landing and undercarriage collapsed, Amberley, Qld, 3.10.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 2 ANS 21.9.42. 2 AOS 13.9.43. Guinea Airways 26.11.43. 6 SFTS 10.7.44. SOC 30.5.47.
    W1664.2 AP 22.1.41. 3 SFTS 17.3.41. Forced landing, Mount Beppo Road, 3 miles from Toogoolawah, Qld, 4.7.41. Overshot into drain, Amberley, Qld, 3.10.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 1 SFTS 12.4.42. 1 AOS 6.7.42. Ansett overhaul 7.12.42. 1 AD 13.4.43. Ansett 22.4.43. 1 AD 28.4.43. 1 RCS 7.5.43. 7 AD 6.7.43. 1 AD 21.9.43. 1 RCS 4.10.43. 10 RSU 10.10.43. APL 22.11.43. 3 AD 31.3.44. 2 AP 14.4.44. 9 CU 20.4.44. Crashed after port engine failure, 1.5 miles south-east of Berry Strip, PNG, 25.5.44.
    W1717.1 AD 27.1.41. 4 SFTS 28.2.41. Taxied into by W1560, Geraldton, WA, 17.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with cement block while taxying, Georgina RLG, WA, 15.5.43. ANA overhaul 9.8.43. 4 SFTS 28.2.44. CMU Evans Head 23.7.45. CMU Maryborough 28.2.46. Sold 23.1.47. CoR No 1292 as VH-BAK issued 23.5.47 to Townsville & Country Airways, Townsville, Qld. Damaged beyond repair after undercarriage failure on landing, Julia Creek, Qld, 24.1.48. Cancelled 7.6.48.
    W1718.1 AD 27.1.41. 3 SFTS 3.3.41. Taxied into stationary W1532 at night, Amberley, Qld, 1.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Taxied into by R9936, Amberley, Qld, 24.12.41. Collided on approach with W1547, Amberley, Qld, 16.2.42. Port undercarriage leg collapsed on take-off, Amberley, Qld, 11.3.42. 1 SFTS 3.4.42. 6 SFTS 15.6.42. Guinea Airways 25.1.44. Converted to components 24.10.44.
    W1719.1 AD 27.1.41. 3 SFTS 3.3.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett 6.9.43. 1 AD 27.3.44. 2 AOS 17.11.44. Struck overhead wires during training exercise and crash landed Ondit, Vic, 30.12.44.
    W1720.1 AD 27.1.41. 3 SFTS 3.3.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 28.10.42. APL overhaul 6.8.43. 3 AD 1.8.44. 8 SFTS 22.8.44. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W1756.2 AP 17.3.41. 3 SFTS 5.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 70 Sqn 12.10.42. Forced landing when lost, Balah, SA, 14.4.43. Guinea Airways 12.3.44. 6 SFTS 2.12.44. CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook storage 2.9.46. Renamed Base Sqn Point Cook 15.6.50. Awaiting disposal, Point Cook 31.3.53.
    W1757.2 AP 17.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. Ground loop on landing (where?) 6.11.41. Qantas 20.11.41. 8 SFTS 22.4.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 1.9.42. Forced landing after engine failure, Moorlands, Qld 8.4.43.
    W1938.2 AP 4.5.41. 4 SFTS "67" 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Mid-air collision with W2129, Geraldton, WA, 9.2.43. Forced landing after hitting tree top, Tenindawa, WA, 8.10.44. ANA 11.11.44. 7 CU 24.8.45. Wheels up landing, Learmonth, WA, 14.11.45. SHQ Pearce 19.2.46. 7 CU 7.3.46. SHQ Pearce 21.3.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W1939.2 AP 4.5.41. 3 SFTS 6.7.41. Damaged in precautionary landing, Amberley, Qld, 11.7.41. Fitted turret 16.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Forced landing, Port Augusta, SA, 20.5.42. Guinea Airways 22.6.42. SOC 21.9.42.
    W1940.2 AP 7.4.41. 3 SFTS 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 3.5.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Forced landing with undercarriage up after engine failure, Loanor (?) 21.7.43. CMU Narranderra 21.6.45. SOC 30.9.47.
    W1941.2 AP 7.4.41. 3 SFTS 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. taxied into AW846, Mallala, SA, 24.2.42. Guinea Airways 23.5.44. 6 SFTS 6.11.44. 6 CU 14.12.44. 5 CRD 19.12.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    W1943.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. Fitted turret 16.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 70 Sqn 12.10.42. Ansett Airways 16.2.44. 1 AD 17.10.44. 6 SFTS 30.10.44. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1563 as VH-BLL issued 10.8.48 to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 20.10.50 to Overland Air Services Pty Ltd, Condobolin, NSW. Transferred 20.2.52 to Air Charter Pty Ltd, Matraville, NSW. Withdrawn from use and cancelled at owner’s request 19.10.56. New CoR No 2975 issued 10.1.57 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Cancelled 18.6.58 as 'discarded'.
    W1945.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 15.3.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 28.10.42. Mid-air collision with W1588 and dived into sea 8 miles south-east of Elliott Heads, Qld, 26.7.43.
    W1948.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. While landing, hit R3453 which was taking off, Amberley, Qld 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Struck slope of hill while making an emergency landing after engine failure, Beaudesert, Qld, 14.2.42. Qantas 30.1.42. 3 AD 21.8.42. 8 SFTS 26.5.42. 71 Sqn 1.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. 66 Sqn 2.7.43. Forced landing after engine failure during anti-submarine patrol, Burnett heads, Qld, 2.8.43. 8 SFTS 29.12.43. Ground looped on take-off and undercarriage collapsed, Bundaberg, Qld, 29.5.44. CMU Evans Head 6.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W1949.2 AP 4.5.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped and undercarriage collapsed at night, Georgina SLG, WA, 7.4.43. ANA overhaul 4.10.44. 4 ADRP 17.9.45. 87 OBU storage (date?). Sold 28.1.47. CoR No 1297 as VH-BEM issued 6.5.47 to R.S Couper, Mount Barker, WA - later Perth, WA. Transferred 1.12.47 to J Dyer, Fremantle, WA - later Darwin NT. Registration suspended 19.12.47 to 8.10.48. CofA expired 21.12.49, Withdrawn from use Darwin 9.1.50 and became derelict. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    W1950.2 AP 4.5.41. 4 SFTS 19.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing, Georgina SLG, WA, 20.2.42. Landing accident 25.6.42. Struck building with wingtip while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 26.3.43. Propeller struck water during low-level exercise (where?) 16.6.43. ANA 29.5.44. 4 SFTS 11.12.44. CMU Evans Head 23.7.45. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane, 13.11.46.
    W1952.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn "MK-U" 2.2.43. Ansett 15.2.44. 1 AD 2.10.44. 6 SFTS 3.11.44. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. Sold to D.N. Dalton, Albury, NSW, 8.8.47.
    W1953.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 30.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Landing accident, Rockhampton, Qld, while attached to 71 Sqn, 25.6.42. 71 Sqn 18.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. APL 20.3.44. 3 AD 6.11.44. 6 CU "XJ-W’ 6.12.45. 14 ARD 27.4.45. 6 CU 4.8.45. 5 CRD 24.12.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    W1954.2 AP 7.4.41. 2 ANS 14.7.41. 1 AD 14.10.41. 2 ANS 8.11.41. Fitted dual control and turret 30.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 18.8.42. 8 SFTS 1.9.42. APL 10.7.44. 3 AD 25.4.45. 6 SFTS 3.5.45. CMU Mallala 1.1.46. AGRS 6.4.47. Sold 12.53. CoR No 2305 as VH-BSF issued 15.12.53 to Brain and Brown Air Freighters, Moorabbin, Vic. Took part in farewell Anson fly-past over Melbourne 30.6.62 with VH-FIA, VH-FIC. Cancelled 30.6.62i (no details but obviously under grounding regulation from DGCA).
  • Images of W1954.
  • W1955.2 AP 7.4.41. 2 ANS 14.7.41. 1 AD 7.10.41. 2 ANS 8.11.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Crashed during low-level bombing practice, 3 miles south-south-west of Bundaberg, Qld, 7.5.42.
    W1958.2 AP 16.5.41. 4 SFTS "82" 19.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed into hillside, Waggrakine Hills, 8 miles north of Geraldton, WA, 18.3.42. Converted to components 5.5.43.
    W1959.2 AP 16.5.41. 4 SFTS "83" 19.7.41. Hit stationary tip truck on flare path, Geraldton, WA, 12.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after port engine failure, 1 miles south of Georgina SLG, WA, 29.4.42. Ground looped and undercarriage collapsed, Geraldton, WA, 17.1.44. Converted to components 17.2.44.
    W1960.2 AP 31.3.41. 3 SFTS 11.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways 29.11.44. 6 SFTS 31.5.45. CMU Benalla 1.9.47. Tocumwal 11.11.48, 1 AD 11.7.49. Sold to Murdock, Burgoyne & Blackmore, Brighton, Vic, 19.12.52.
    W1961.1 AD 13.4.41. 2 AOS 17.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 28.12.41. Ansett 19.4.43. 1 AD 21.9.43. Signals School 11.10.43. Point Cook reserve 4.11.45. SOC 21.12.49.
    W1964.2 AP 16.5.41. 4 SFTS 19.7.41. Starboard undercarriage struck soft sand and aircraft bogged after forced landing 40 miles south of Onslow, WA, 28.11.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. Struck tree while low flying, 15 miles north-east of Dongara, WA, 1.4.42. Landed with undercarriage retracted, Geraldton, WA, 18.7.43. ANA 3.7.44. 7 CU 1.10.44. SHQ Pearce storage 21.3.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W1965.2 AP 16.5.41. 4 SFTS 19.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA overhaul 4.12.42. 4 SFTS 17.6.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold to Airlines Pty Ltd 24.3.47.
    W1966.1 AD 10.4.41. 2 AOS 28.4.41. Crashed after mid-air collision with W2020, after the latter aircraft emerged from cloud, Mount Gambier, SA, 12.7.41. Crew killed in this aircraft were Flt Lt George Kenneth Peacock (pilot), LAC Lance Lorimer Andrew and LAC Ernest Osman Milford (student observers).
    W1970.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 6.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 17.1.44. 6 SFTS 24.2.45. 1 CU 5.3.45. Parafield 4.3.46. CMU Mallala 7.5.46. Sold 15.11.46. CoR No 1542 as VH-BFN issued 18.5.48 to W.A. Reed, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 24.11.49 to South Coast Airways Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW. Withdrawn from service and cancelled 28.6.54.
    W1971.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. ANA 8.11.41. 1 AD 3.11.41. 2 ANS 6.12.41. Turret fitted 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.43. 8 SFTS 11.11.43. APL 20.12.44. 3 CRD 20.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    W1990.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 6.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Qantas 3.5.42. 8 SFTS 25.7.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Struck telephone wires spanning river (where?) 29.10.43. APL 11.9.44. 3 CRD 5.12.44. Converted to components 5.12.44.
    W1991.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 14.7.41. Ansett 1.11.41. 1 AD 28.11.41. 2 ANS 30.11.41. 1 AD 4.12.41. 2 ANS 9.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Ansett overhaul 11.4.44. 2 AD 29.1.45. GRS 13.2.45. After port engine failure at night, made forced landing on beach at southern tip of Snake Island, Vic, 18.6.45.
    W1994.2 AP 14.4.41. 3 SFTS 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Undercarriage collapsed after landing, Amberley, Qld, 21.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn "MK-N" 2.2.43. Ansett overhaul 21.3.44. 1 AD 20.11.44. 6 SFTS 24.1.45. SHQ Mallala (date?). Sold to D.N. Walton, Albury, NSW 8.8.47.
    W1995.2 AP 14.4.41. 3 SFTS 15.5.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Undercarriage collapsed after landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 20.12.43. 2 AP overhaul 6.5.44. 3 AD 4.1.45. APL 8.3.45. 3 CRD 20.7.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    W2000.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. Ansett 8.11.41. 1 AD 10.12.41. 2 ANS 13.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Struck water while low flying (where?) 10.5.43. APL overhaul 9.5.44. 3 AD 30.1.45. 1 AOS 19.2.45. 99 Sqn 28.4.45. 102 Sqn 8.7.45. 3 CRD 12.9.45. 2 AD 18.2.46. CMU Cootamundra, NSW, 2.4.46. Sold 4.9.47. CoR No 1710 as VH-BMN issued 26.5.50 to Aircraft Disposals, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 9.10.50 to Charter Aviation Service (Australasia), Bankstown, NSW - later Lae, NG. Transferred 17.3.54 to Papuan Air Transport Pty Ltd, Port Moresby, PNG. Crashed on landing Bereina, PNG, 22.12.54. Cancelled 20.9.55.
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  • W2001.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. Taxied into by R3532, Amberley, Qld, 15.2.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 20.11.44. Converted to components 6.3.45.
    W2015.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into by R3557, Geraldton, WA, 24.11.42. ANA 21.8.44. 4 SFTS 16.4.45. 87 OBU 2.8.45. 7 CU 11.10.45. 87 OBU 17.12.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1149 as VH-AYQ issued 20.12.46 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Ltd, Perth, WA. Re-registered as VH-MMJ 1.8.49 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'RMA Drysdale'. Transferred 1.10.55 to Commercial Aviation Pty Ltd, (a subsidiary company). Transferred 27.3.58 to Carsair Air Service, Port Moresby, NG. Re-registered VH-BIZ 2.4.58 to Carsair Air Service, Port Moresby, NG. Transferred 1.7.60 to R.G. Carswell, Brisbane, Qld. Derelict Darwin .62 and deleted 30.6.62 by DGCA Direction. Last reported Darwin .63.
    W2020.1 AD 13.4.41. 2 AOS 17.5.41. Struck tailplane of W1966 after emerging from rainsquall, Mount Gambier, SA, 12.7.41 3 killed in W1966. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with building while taxying, Mount Gambier, SA, 18.1.42. Hit trees while descending in low visibility, Mount Cole, south of Eversley, Vic. 21.5.42. F Sgt Edward Hope Illingworth (pilot), PO George William Holden (navigator), Sgt Denis Aloysius Lenihan (instructor) LACs Edwin Cyril Shell (student observer) killed. LAC Arthur Edmond Pott (student observer) injured but recovered.
    W2022.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 30.8.41. Collided with stationary W1547, Amberley, Qld, 18.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, 50 miles north of Amberley, Qld, 26.2.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 19.10.44. 6 SFTS 6.3.45. CMU Mallala 1.46. AGRS (when?). For sale at AGRS Ballarat, Vic, 24.4.53.
    W2023.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. ANA 17.11.41. 1 AD 3.12.41. 2 ANS 6.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. APL 17.4.44. 15 ARDRP 29.12.44. 8 CU 20.3.45. 3 CRD 15.7.45. Converted to components 16.4.46.
    W2037.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett 19.11.43. 1 AD 21.8.44. 6 SFTS 4.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 10 CU 16.10.44. 2 AOS 3.2.45. 2 OUT storage 13.2.46. SOC 16.7.47.
    W2038.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 25.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. (gap?) 6 SFTS 8.1.45. DAP Parafield 30.5.45. Converted to components 20.9.45.
    W2039.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 25.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn “MK-S” 2.2.43. Stalled in turn and crashed into the Genoa River between Gipsy Point, and Mallacoota, Vic, 4.10.43. Sgt F.M. Howship (pilot), P/O K.P. Murphy (navigator), Flt Sgt B.F. Duffy (W/Op), LAC H.E.W. Ball.(passenger) all killed.
    W2040.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. 1 AD 14.10.41. 2 ANS 8.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Collided with AW683 landing Bundaberg, Qld, 11.4.42.
    W2041.2 AP 7.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. Hit by taxying N4916, Geraldton, WA, 14.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Undercarriage collapsed on landing Bundaberg(?) 29.4.43. ANA 10.5.43. 4 SFTS 25.10.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 24.3.47. CoR No (??) as VH-BLY issued 2.11.48 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Withdrawn from use 1.11.49. Cancelled 10.4.51.
    W2042.2 AP 7.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Wheels up landing, Geraldton, WA, 6.11.42. ANA overhaul 2.10.43. 4 SFTS 29.5.44. 87 OBU .45. CMU Evans Head 24.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2043.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Undercarriage collapsed while Taxying, Geraldton, WA, 25.9.41. Starboard undercarriage collapsed when landing Kojarina SLG, WA, 1.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Ardingley, WA, 25.3.42. Taxied into boundary marker, Georgina SLG, WA, 9.10.42. Taxied into stationary W2070, Geraldton, WA, 3.1.43. Landed with undercarriage retracted, Geraldton, WA, 28.11.43. ANA 9.12.44. 7 CU 10.9.45. Taxying accident, Carnarvon, WA, 11.3.46. 87 OBU 28.3.46. Sold 24.3.47. CoR No 1302 as VH-BEP issued 30.5.47 to A.R. Wegener, Wembley, WA. Crashed and totally wrecked, Calcutta area, India, 12.47. Cancelled 19.12.47.
    W2044.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped after landing, Georgina SLG, WA, 9.7.42. After Landing, AW941 landed on top of this aircraft, Georgina SLG, WA, 16.11.42. ANA 24.10.43. Converted to components 15.12.43.
    W2045.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing with oil pressure failure, near Morowa, WA, 10.7.42. Taxied into by DJ460, Geraldton, WA, 24.1.43. ANA 1.11.43. 4 SFTS 17.6.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1249 as VH-AYP issued 26.4.47 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Ltd, Perth, WA. Re-registered VH-MMI 4.49 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'RMA Greenough'. CofA expired 19.5.50. Cancelled 31.8.50 as withdrawn from service. Scrapped at Perth.
    W2046.2 AP 7.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into stationary R3474, Geraldton, WA, 18.12.42. ANA 11.10.43. Converted to components 15.12.43.
    W2047.2 AP 7.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 7.2.44. 4 SFTS 31.7.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 24.3.47. CoR No 1299 as VH-BEH issued 1.5.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd., Perth WA. Scrapped Perth Airport 10.7.50. Cancelled 27.3.51 as reduced to spares.
    W2048.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS "59" 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Swung into gun pit in high wind, Kojarina SLG, WA, 30.6.42. Crashed during instrument flying sortie, 1 mile west of Bringo Siding, Geraldton, WA, 2.11.42.
    W2050.2 AP 4.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. ANA 5.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 1 AD 9.1.42. 2 ANS 24.1.42. Radio School 27.4.42. 1 RIMU 8.7.42. Forced landing 20 miles west of Minderoo, WA, 2.4.43. Engine failed on take-off and made forced landing in swamp, Broome, WA, 20.11.43.
    W2051.2 AP 4.5.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. While stationary, taxied into by W2262, Geraldton, WA, 25.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Landed with undercarriage partially retracted (where?) 10.2.42. Struck Army truck during low level flying exercise 12.6.42. 17 RSU 27.6.44. ANA 29.7.44. 4 SFTS 22.1.45. 7 CU 1.4.45. 87 OBU 7.3.46. SHQ Pearce 29.4.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2052.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Tailplane struck concrete block (where?) 27.10.42. Forced landed, lost, 15 miles north of Tenindewa, WA, 19.3.43. ANA 22.5.44. 4 SFTS 9.12.44. 87 OBU .45. CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane, 13.11.46.
    W2053.1 AD 13.4.41. 2 AOS 17.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 8 SFTS 16.1.42. APL 10.4.42. 8 SFTS 6.5.42. While on duty with 71 Reserve Sqn crashed, Mount Nebo, 16 miles west of Brisbane, Qld, 7.8.42. Sgts Patrick, Mellersh and Montey injured. Aircraft recovered and converted to components.
    W2054.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into air compressor, Geraldton, WA, 7.1.43. ANA 28.2.44. 4 SFTS 6.11.44. 7 CU 4.12.44. 87 OBU 11.3.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2058.1 AD 13.4.41. 4 SFTS 8.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxying accident (where?) 23.3.42. Ground looped, Rockwell Strip, WA, 23.8.43. ANA 6.9.43. 4 SFTS 25.3.44. CMU Evans Head 25.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2062.2 AP 4.5.41. 1 AOS 28.6.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. APL 17.5.42. 8 SFTS 13.7.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. (8 SFTS?) 28.10.42. APL 6.12.43. 3 AD 8.9.44. 8 SFTS 18.9.44. GRS 30.4.45. Sold 11.2.47. CoR No 1282 as VH-BBO issued 27.5.47 to J.W. Roll, Brisbane, Qld. Left Darwin on private flight to Scotland 10.7.47. Sold en route to Airways (Burma) Ltd, Rangoon and became XY-ABG. Cancelled from Australian register 19.11.47 as "Flown to UK about 5.7.47". No info on fate.
    W2063.2 AP 4.5.41. 1 AOS 21.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. Ground looped and damaged undercarriage during forced landing, Bundaberg, Qld, 2.6.42. Struck water while low flying, Kolan River, Qld, 21.7.42. Taxied into by DG868, Bundaberg, Qld, 30.9.42. APL 1.12.43. 3 AD 3.6.44. 8 SFTS 6.6.44. GRS 30.4.45. Sold 11.2.47. CoR No 1501 as VH-BJQ issued 11.2.48 to Tradair Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Vic. Withdrawn from use 10.2.49. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    W2065.2 AP 4.5.41. 1 AOS 21.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. While stationary, hit by W2152 at night, Bundaberg, Qld, 30.3.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Converted from dual control to single control 8.6.44. APL 10.7.44. 3 AD 16.5.45. 3 AOS 30.5.45. 5 CRD (when?). Sold to E. McIlree, Sydney, 15.11.46.
    W2067.1 AD 6.6.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Forced landing, Kingaroy SLG, Qld, 23.2.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 4 AD 23.11.43. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    W2068.1 AD 12.5.41. 4 SFTS 27.5.41. Forced landing after engine failure and ran through fence, Geraldton, WA, 12.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxying accident, Georgina SLG, WA, 4.6.42. Forced landing after engine failure, 18 miles from Perenjori, WA, 23.3.43. ANA 18.10.43. 4 SFTS 5.6.44. 87 OBU (when?). CMU Evans Head 25.7.45. CMU Narranderra 29.3.46. Sold 14.11.46. CoR No 1310 as VH-ASM issued 7.5.47 to East-West Airlines Pty. Ltd., Tamworth, NSW, named 'Hinkler'. Withdrawn from use 16.8.50. Cancelled 6.8.51 on sale to Marshall Airways. Restored with new CoR No 2934 22.6.56 to Marshall Airways, Bankstown, NSW. Cancelled 18.7.62 - direction of DGCA. Stored in a yard at Bankstown until 3.72 when it was bought for static rebuild by East-West Airlines. Restoration was completed in 1987 and displayed at Sydney Airport 7.87 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of formation of the airline. Later placed on display at Tamworth Airport, NSW. Current. Note: There is also an Anson marked ‘W2068’ displayed on a "Queen Mary’ road trailer in the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.
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  • W2070.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 27.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. While stationary, taxied into by W2043, Geraldton, WA, 3.1.43. Undercarriage collapsed during ground loop after landing, Kojarena SLG, WA, 17.3.43. ANA 8.1.45. 4 CRD 26.11.45. 14 ARD overhaul 21.3.46. CMU Geraldton 13.5.46. Sold 28.1.47. CoR No 1366 asVH-MMB issued 18.7.47 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'RMA Fortescue' then 'RMA Blackwood'. Transferred 1.10.55 to Commercial Aviation Pty Ltd (same address) Perth, WA. Withdrawn from use and dismantled Perth Airport 5.3.59. Cancelled 28.3.60.
    W2072.2 AP 4.5.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Apparently lost control in cloud, starboard wing disintegrated in dive and aircraft crashed 3 miles north of Greenough Township, WA, 1.11.43. Converted to components 15.11.43.
    W2078.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into by W2147, Geraldton, WA. 6.4.42. Struck water tanker, Geraldton, WA, 12.1.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2080.1 AD 6.6.41. 4 SFTS 3.8.41. Starboard undercarriage collapsed while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 19.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with R3516 after take-off, Geraldton, WA, 28.1.43. Ground looped after landing, Georgina SLG, WA, 3.12.43. Converted to components 3.1.44.
    W2083.1 AD 10.4.41. 2 AOS "83" 25.4.41. Tail struck concrete post while taxying, Parafield, SA, 14.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 28.12.41. Guinea Airways 23.10.42. GRS 19.7.43. SOC 25.11.47.
    W2084.1 AD 10.4.41. 2 AOS 28.4.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 28.12.41. Guinea Airways 23.10.42. 33 Sqn 7.6.43. 15 ARD 15.9.43. 1 RCS 28.10.43. 9 CU 4.11.43. Taxying accident, Berry Strip, PNG, 15.12.43. 2 CRD 17.3.44. Ansett overhaul 21.4.44. 2 AP 18.12.44. Hit by truck while parked, Bankstown, NSW, 20.12.44. Ansett 17.1.45. 2 AD 30.4.45. 8 OUT 7.5.45. 87 Sqn 14.1.46. CMU Wagga Wagga 18.2.46. Sold 21.9.47. CoR No 2245 as VH-BKU issued 29.9.54 to Petroleum Drilling Corp. Ltd, Sydney, NSW. Transferred 14.12.56 to Papuan Air Transport Pty Ltd, Port Moresby, NG. Withdrawn from use and cancelled by 23.3.62. (reported in NG return of that date).
    W2085.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS "75" 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. ANA 29.5.44. 4 SFTS 23.10.44. 87 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 23.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2088.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into concrete block, Georgina SLG, WA, 29.9.42. Ground looped while taxying, Kojarina SLG, WA, 9.3.43. ANA overhaul 2.9.44. 4 SFTS 7.5.45. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 23.8.46. CoR No 1143 as VH-AYO issued 11.12.46 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Ltd, Perth, WA. Re-registered VH-MMH 4.49 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Named 'RMA Ord' then 'RMA Harding'. Transferred 1.10.55 to Commercial Aviation Pty Ltd, (same address) Perth, WA. Made Anson farewell flypast over Perth 29.6.62. Cancelled 30.6.62 ‘withdrawn from use by order DGCA'. Donated to Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, WA and transferred there 11.8.62. Derelict at school by .64.
    W2091.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 16.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Hit fence while landing at night, Georgina SLG, WA, 3.8.42. Taxying accident, Geraldton, WA, 27.5.43. ANA overhaul 14.2.44. 4 SFTS 8.8.44. 87 OBU 1.6.45. CMU Evans Head 31.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2092.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 16.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Damaged undercarriage while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 28.5.43. ANA overhaul 5.6.44. 4 SFTS 29.1.45. 7 CU 5.2.45. 87 OBU 18.2.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2093.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. 6 SFTS 13.4.42. Guinea Airways 19.12.44. 6 SFTS 2.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 14.4.47. 3 AD 27.2.48. SAN 14.11.49. East Sale 25.8.50. 1 AD 19.10.50. Sold 12.3.53. Registration VH-BOT reserved for V.G. Reid, and J.W. Reffen Hobart 6.53 but not taken up. Registration VH-EFT reserved 11.6.56 by E.F. Reid trading as Gollala Air Services but not taken up. CoR No 3060 as VH-EFR issued 18.3.58 to Papuan Air Transport, Port Moresby, NG. Withdrawn from use 10.59 (Patair's last Anson). Cancelled 23.3.62. Airframe donated to Boroko RSL childrens’ playground , Port Moresby 10.59. Still present 2.61.
    W2094.2 AP 16.5.41. 1 AOS 21.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 8 SFTS 24.1.42. Qantas 3.5.42. 8 SFTS 24.7.42. 2 AP 29.4.44. 2 AD 5.2.45. SOC 2.11.48.
    W2095.2 AP 14.4.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 5.4.42. Forced landing, out of fuel, Loveday, Vic, 5.12.42. Crashed at night after weather deteriorated during night navigation exercise, 1.5 miles east-south-east of Tarlee, SA, 23.9.43. Crew : F/O Ian Duncan Weston (Instructor Nav), Sgt Julian Patrick Rice (Pilot), LACs Cyril M Lewis and Donald Neil McDonald (Trainee Navs) all killed Eyewitness Report 1: "It was a dirty night between half ten and eleven, he came from the north in low towards our farm and circled the town. He then came in low over the oval and clipped the tops of the big gums we used to have around the oval, he tried to pull up, it lifted a bit then dove straight into the paddock, we all ran to see if we could help but it burned as soon as it hit the ground, the poor buggers. We only found three bodies that night, we found the other bloke the next day. I said to my mate that the left engine was on fire, but he said it was probably the exhaust, the engines were making a hell of noise, really screaming they were. Nobody could approach the site for several days as the police had cordoned it off, as one farmer said, "Bloody tight security we couldn't nick a thing". Eyewitness Report 2: "We heard a thump that night, next day after school we went to the place, but there was only a burned out wreck and the police had strong security around it." Memorial Details http://www.tributesofhonour.info/php/wm_details.php?wm_id=1515
    W2096.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Landing accident, Georgina SLG, WA, 29.7.42. Hit by W2614 which overshot and swung while landing at night, (where?) 1.10.42. ANA 31.7.43. 4 SFTS 14.2.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2097.2 AP 14.4.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett overhaul 21.3.44. 1 AD 14.11.44. 6 SFTS 4.1.45. Sold 4.10.46. CoR No 1570 as VH-BMA issued 18.8.48 to New England Airways, Bankstown, NSW. Transferred 26.8.48 to Wollongong and South Coast Aviation Services Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW. Transferred 11.11.49 to A.A. Aberline, West Wyalong, NSW. Transferred 18.11.53 to F. Wiza, trading as Australian Aircraft Sales, Kings Cross, NSW. Registration lapsed 19.2.54. Transferred 3.5.54 to J.P. Connolly, Kings Cross, NSW. Transferred 7.7.54 to A. Saffron, Potts Point, NSW. Cancelled 10.1.55. Restored 21.3.55 with new CoR No 2268 to Goilala Air Services, Tapini, NG. Withdrawn from use due to spar deterioration and cancelled 28.6.56.
    W2098.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS "10" 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after both engines failed, Walkaway Bombing and Gunnery Range, WA, 20.11.42. ANA 25.6.43. 4 SFTS 19.7.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2099.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed when both engines failed during bombing exercise, Walkaway Bombing and Gunnery Range, WA, 12.3.42. Converted to components 14.4.42.
    W2109.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS "55" 22.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into shelter trench, Geraldton, WA. 20.4.42. ANA 18.1.44. 4 SFTS 17.7.44. 87 OBU 1.6.45. CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. CMU Narranderra 11.3.46. Sold 13.10.47. CoR No 1718 as VH-BMO issued 1.8.50 to Charter Aviation Service (Australasia), Bankstown, NSW - later Lae, NG. Transferred 12.3.53 to Airport Drive Yourself Pty Ltd, East Sydney, NSW. Exported to Singapore departing Darwin 16.5.53. Cancelled 28.5.53. Registered as VR-SDT to Tradeastern Ltd 26.5.53 for use by Nanyang Airways Ltd. Transferred to Nanyang Press Ltd, Kallang, 1.1.55. Withdrawn from use 17.9.58.
    W2110.1 AD 6.6.41. GRS 24.7.41. Collided while overtaking Fairey battle L5760 north of Geelong, Vic, 15.8.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Ran into gutter and hit wire fence, Laverton, Vic, 7.1.42. Ansett overhaul 20.9.43. 1 AD 3.4.44. 4 SFTS "10" 12.4.44. Swung off strip during cross-wind landing practice, Rockwell Strip, (35 miles north-west of Geraldton) WA, 1.5.44. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2111.1 AD 6.6.41. 1 SFTS 20.7.41. 6 SFTS 4.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing 7 miles north of tenant Creek, NT, 11.3.42. Ansett overhaul 20.11.43. 1 AD 4.9.44. CFS 18.9.44. 1 CU 26.12.44. Starboard undercarriage collapsed while taxying, Tocumwal, NSW, 21.7.45. Converted to components 7.11.45.
    W2112.2 AP 14.4.41. 4 SFTS 20.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Landed off runway on marshy ground, Onslow, WA, 13.9.42. Landed with undercarriage partially retratced, Geraldton, WA, 24.8.42. ANA overhaul 20.12.43. 4 SFTS 1.5.44. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2114.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS "64" 16.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped after tyre burst, Geraldton, WA, 30.12.43. ANA overhaul 5.8.44. 4 SFTS 5.3.45. 7 CU 1.4.45. 87 OBU 17.12.45. Sold 24.3.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd.
    W2116.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 16.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into slit trench, Geraldton, WA, 23.10.42. ANA 25.10.43. 4 SFTS Technical Salvage Section 21.12.43. Converted to components 15.12.43.
    W2117.1 AD 6.6.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Fitted dual control and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 8 SFTS 28.10.42. Ansett 6.2.44. 2 AP 6.11.44. 6 CU 4.12.44. 3 AOS storage 25.11.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    W2121.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS 14.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped, Georgina SLG, WA, 21.5.43. ANA 26.12.44. 4 CRD 26.11.45. 17 RSU 10.1.46. 7 CU 11.3.46. CMU Geraldton 13.5.46. Sold 6.11.46. CoR No 1296 as VH-BEL issued 18.6.47 to G.W. Lewis, Flying Doctor Service, Kalgoorlie, WA. Last Mk 1 Anson to fly in Australia due CofA extension 21.8.62 to 4.9.62 to allow completion of survey contract in Leonora, WA, area. Cancelled 4.9.62 "by order of DGCA". Donated to Air Training Corps Centre, Kalgoorlie. Left in hangar at Kalgoorlie Airport. Donated to RAAF Association Museum, Perth, WA, 16.7.70. Transported to Perth by road 6.71. Stored then restored as W2121 and displayed in RAAF Association Museum, Bull Creek, Perth, WA. Current.
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  • W2124.1 AD 6.6.41. 4 SFTS "87" 3.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Undercarriage collapsed while taxying on boggy ground, Kojarina SLG, WA, 15.6.42. Damaged on landing, Geraldton, WA, 1.9.42. ANA 26.10.42. 4 SFTS 14.12.42. Overshot flare path and ran into slit trench, Geraldton, WA, 13.1.43. ANA 13.2.42. 4 SFTS 1.3.43. Undercarriage collapsed during ground loop on landing, Geraldton, WA, 28.2.44. ANA 28.8.44. 7 CU 10.4.45. SHQ Pearce 19.2.46. CMU Geraldton 13.5.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2129.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS 12.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, 1 mile from Geraldton, WA, 16.2.42. Mid-air collision with W1938, Geraldton, WA, 9.2.43. Converted to components 1.6.43.
    W2131.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS 12.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Hit by taxying R3557, Geraldton, WA, 24.11.42. ANA 27.5.44. 4 SFTS 2.10.44. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. CMU Narranderra 29.3.46. Sold 11.10.46. CoR No 1154 as VH-AKH issued 3.1.47 to Guinea Air Traders Ltd., Lae, NG. Crashed near Bulolo, NG 1.3.47 and totally wrecked. All 4 on board killed. Cancelled 1.3.47.
    W2132.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS "88" 12.7.41. Landed with undercarriage retracted, Georgina SLG, WA, 25.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 4 AD 27.1.44. ANA 14.10.44. 7 CU 1.8.45. Crashed on landing, Noonkanbah, WA, 7.9.45.
    W2133.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS "80" 12.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into by W2276, Geraldton, WA, 23.2.42. Crash landed while low flying, White Peaks, WA, 10.7.42. ANA 20.7.42. ANA 20.7.42. 4 SFTS 5.4.43. 87 OBU 1.6.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2135.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. Ansett 29.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 1 AD 7.1.42. 2 ANS 17.1.42. Nose hit by starboard wing of DG728, Nhill, Vic, 10.2.43. 2 AOS 23.9.43. 1 WAGS 25.11.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Ansett overhaul 15.1.45. 1 AD 4.6.45. 6 SFTS 14.6.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 21.4.47. 3 AD 27.2.48. SAN 17.9.48. Forced landing with oil pressure problem, Evendon, (state?) 28.3.49. 1 AD Det, Tocumwal 16.10.50. Sold 23.5.54. CoR No: 2304 as VH-ICB issued 11.11.53 to Inter-Coastal Airlines, Melbourne, Vic,. Transferred 27.1.56 to Aircraft Engine Overhaul Service, Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne, Vic. Re-registered as VH-AOA 6.4.56. Transferred 26.8.56 to Papuan Air Transport Ltd., Port Moresby, PNG, Cancelled 5.8.58 as "discarded". Donated to kindergarten, Port Moresby.
    W2141.1 AD 25.5.41. 4 SFTS 12.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxying accident, Geraldton, 27.1.43. Converted to components 21.1.44.
    W2145.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 26.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Hit fence on approach, Amberley, Qld, 21.2.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Collided with W2374 after landing, Mallala, SA, 28.12.43. Guinea Airways overhaul 27.3.45. Parafield 2.11.45. 1 AD 19.2.46. Sold 15.5.46. CoR No 1004 as VH-AQV issued 19.7.46 to The Commissioner of Police, Sydney, NSW, named "Nemesis". Transferred 31.8.50 to E.C. Fountain, Strathfield, NSW. Cancelled 6.8.51. Transferred 21.12.53 to Crowley Airways Ltd, Lae. NG. Restored 21.1.54. Re-reg VH-CSC 20.3.55 to Crowley Airways, Lae, NG. Withdrawn from use Lae .58 and became derelict. Cancelled 1.9.60 at owner's request.
    W2146.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 27.5.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed after engine failure on take-off, Kojarina SLG, WA, 17.3.43. 87 OBU 1.6.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2147.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 16.6.41. Undershot at night and hit fence, Geraldton 15.9.41. Hit boundary fence, Geraldton, WA, 28.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with W2078 while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 20.10.43. (ANA? Date?) 4 SFTS 3.7.44. 87 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2148.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS 16.6.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. While stationary, hit by W2149, Kojarina SLG, WA, 18.8.42. ANA 12.4.43. 4 SFTS 13.9.43. Mainplane damaged while taxying, Geraldton, WA, 3.5.44. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans Head 10.7.45. Forced landing after engine failure during delivery flight, Ceduna, SA, 16.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2149.1 AD 10.5.41. 4 SFTS "77" 12.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped taxying in high wind and struck W2148, Kojarina SLG, WA, 18.8.42. Tailplane struck boundary marker while taxying, Kojarina SLG, WA, 2.9.42. Crash landed and undercarriage collapsed, Georgina SLG, WA, 7.4.43. ANA 9.12.44. 4 ADRP 8.9.45. 87 OBU 22.1.46. Sold 30.9.46. CoR No 1223 as VH-BAU issued 17.12.46 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Transferred 16.4.53 to Yaringa Pastoral Co Pty Ltd (A. Kopke), Carnarvon, WA - later Geraldton WA. Withdrawn from use 12.55 at Maylands, W.A. Cancelled 17.12.56 as beyond economical repair (derelict).
    W2150.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 14.7.41. Ansett 18.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 1 AD 24.12.41. 2 ANS 27.12.41. * SFTS 30.3.42. 71 Sqn 14.9.42. 2 ANS 11.11.42. 2 AP 19.6.44. 2 AD 22.2.45. Ansett 21.5.45. 2 RSU 18.7.45. 2 CRD 31.8.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    W2151.1 AD 6.6.41. GRS 27.7.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ansett 6.7.43. 1 AD 29.11.43. 1 WAGS 5.12.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. SHQ Laverton for HFDF calibration 25.6.45. 11 EFTS storage 5.10.45. SOC 12.5.48.
    W2152.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 21.7.41. Ansett 17.11.48. 1 AD 14.12.41. 2 ANS 20.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 30.12.41. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. Collided with stationary W2056 (?) at night, Bundaberg, Qld, 30.3.42. APL 4.5.42. 8 SFTS 17.5.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Ansett 12.2.44. 2 AP 9.10.44. 1 WAGS 16.10.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 21.2.47.
    W2153.1 AD 6.6.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.42. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Forced landing after engine failure, 1 mile north of Lower Light SLG, SA, 22.4.43. Converted to components 18.11.43.
    W2156.2 AP 16.5.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.42. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Swung on landing and collided with stationary W2157, Mallala, SA, 29.8.44. 6 SFTS 8.1.45. Ansett 3.5.45. 1 CRD 18.8.45. Converted to components 13.9.45.
    W2157.2 AP 16.5.41. 2 ANS 14.7.41. Ansett 6.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 1 AD 18.1.42. 2 ANS 24.1.42. Damaged while taxying, Nhill, Vic, 15.5.42. Undercarriage collapsed in forced landing 2 miles east of Nhill, Vic, 9.9.42. Ansett 26.9.42. 1 AD 13.4.43. 6 SFTS 11.5.43. While stationary, struck by landing W2156, Mallala, SA, 29.8.44. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2158.1 AD 6.6.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual control and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Aircraft abandoned by crew while lost on cross-country flight and crashed near Booyal, 26 miles south-west of Bundaberg, Qld, 10.1.43.
    W2164.1 AD 6.6.41. 4 SFTS "91" 31.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Overshot at night and swung into W2096 (where?) 1.10.42. Forced landing after engine failure, Georgina SLG, WA, 15.11.42. Forced landing with undercarriage retracted, 12 miles south of Geraldton, WA, 28.10.43. ANA 11.9.44. 4 SFTS 14.5.45. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1096 as VH-AYN issued 1.11.46 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co Ltd, Perth, WA. Named "RMA De Gray". Re-registered VH-MMG 4.49. Transferred 1.10.55 to Commercial Aviation Pty Ltd, (same address) Perth, WA. Crashed at Hawkstone Peak near Derby, WA, 4.2.56 while on ambulance flight. Pilot, 2 nurses, father and child killed. Cancelled 4.2.56.
    W2165.1 AD 6.6.41. 1 SFTS 20.7.41. Taxied into by Oxford R6191 (where?) (date?). 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Ground looped and undercarriage collapsed on landing, Mallala, SA, 9.12.41. Guinea Airways 20.12.41. 6 SFTS 24.1.42. Mid-air collision with R3542 while changing formation during low-level formation flying, Monteith, near Murray Bridge, SA, 4.8.42. 4 killed in each aircraft. In this aircraft Sgt Hugh Godfrey Phillips (pilot/instructor), Sgt Mervyn John Nicholls (observer), LACs (trainees) Colin McCall Say and James Brignall Richardson.
    W2172.1 AD 6.6.41. 3 SFTS 31.7.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways 29.1.45. 6 SFTS 8.8.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point cook store 2.9.46. 1 AD Ferry Flight 24.3.53. Sold 15.8.55. CoR No 2124 as VH-BIE issued 15.7.55 to R.G. Carswell, Moorooka, Qld - then c/- Carsair, Port Moresby, NG. Later to Brisbane, Qld. Withdrawn from use Archerfield, Qld, 1958. Cancelled 31.8.60. Derelict remains found on a property at Mount Gravatt, , Qld and acquired by John Hill who moved them to his property at Springbrook, Qld (date?). Sold to Queensland Air Museum and collected by museum 12.6.77. Now held by Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra, Qld.
    W2181.1 AD 30.6.41. 3 SFTS 25.8.41. Heavy landing, Amberley, Qld, 23.10.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Crashed, Mallala, SA, 22.7.43. Ansett overhaul 21.3.44. 1 AD 30.10.44. 6 CU 4.11.44. 3 AOS 11.11.45. 5 CRD 1.2.46. SOC 20.8.47.
    W2188.1 AD 28.6.41. GRS 26.9.41. 1 AD 30.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. GRS 21.12.41. Ansett 20.9.43. 1 AD 1.5.44. 8 SFTS 28.5.44. Maryborough store 18.6.45. Sold 20.8.46. CoR No 1185 as VH-BAB issued 20.1.47 to E.S. Riggall, c/- Inland Air Service, Kedron, Qld. Transferred 20.12.48 to Queensland Airlines Pty Ltd, Archerfield Aerodrome, Qld. Transferred 7.9.50 to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Ditched off Swansea, NSW 14.7.51 after port engine failure. Captain and 10 pax rescued by fishing boat. Cancelled 6.8.51.
    W2211.1 AD 8.7.41. 3 SFTS 25.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Engine failed on take-off, aircraft turned back, stalled and crashed, Amberley, Qld, 15.2.42.
    W2221.1 AD 8.7.41. 4 SFTS 20.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Collided with tree while taxying Yuin LG, WA, 3.7.42. ANA 29.7.44. 4 SFTS 26.2.45. 87 OBU (date?) CMU Evans head 31.7.45. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane, Qld, 13.11.46.
    W2231.1 AD 28.6.41. 3 SFTS 1.9.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Ansett overhaul 5.6.44. 1 AD 26.12.44. 6 SFTS 23.1.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 19.3.47. Still in store, AGRS Ballarat 7.1.53.
    W2239.1 AD 28.6.41. GRS 25.9.41. 1 AD 30.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. GRS 21.12.41. Ansett 11.12.44. 1 AD 21.5.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. Sold 17.7.46. CoR No 1064 as VH-AVQ issued 4.9.46 to Australian Air Traders Sydney, NSW. Transferred 14.4.47 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Crashed 24.4.47 20 miles east of Port Moresby. Cancelled 20.10.47.
    W2240.1 AD 28.6.41. GRS 24.9.41. Taxying accident, Laverton, Vic, 5.11.41. Taxied into stationary W2265 (where?) 16.2.42. Taxying accident, Cressy, Vic, 3.12.42. Ansett 14.12.42. 1 AD 29.1.42. 1 RCS 10.5.43. 15 ARD 17.8.43. 1 RCS 16.10.43. 9 CU 4.11.43. 1 AOS 24.3.44. 2 AP 30.3.44. 2 AD 5.2.45. SOC 2.11.48.
    W2244.1 AD 28.6.41. 3 SFTS 25.8.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. Fitted dual controls and turreted 5.1.42. 8 SFTS 13.1.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Taxied into DG842, Bundaberg, Qld, 8.12.42. 2 AP 15.5.44. Ansett 19.9.44. 2 AD 26.3.45. GRS 2.4.45. Missing on reconnaissance flight from Bairnsdale, Vic, to Lowood, Qld 7.4.45. Wreckage washed up near Coffs Harbour, NSW, 22.4.45.
    W2253.1 AD 28.6.41. GRS 3.9.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Crashed Wonwron, Vic, 21.5.43.
    W2254.1 AD 28.6.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Mid-air collision with W2257, 1.5 miles south of Mallala, SA, 14.10.41. Sgt Ian Bruce Blacker (Instr) and LAC Bernard George Hutchins (student pilot) killed in this aircraft.
    W2255.1 AD 28.6.41. 3 SFTS 1.9.41. Fitted turret 18.12.41. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Taxied into hole, Mallala, SA, 11.9.42. Ansett Essendon overhaul 24.11.43. 1 AD 12.9.44. 6 SFTS 25.9.44. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point Cook storage 2.9.46. Sold 14.11.47. CoR No 1629 as VH-BKZ issued 4.3.49 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Crashed Moorabbin, Vic 17.1.53 after engine failure on take-off. Cancelled 15.5.53.
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  • W2256.1 AD 28.6.41. 3 SFTS 1.9.41. Fitted turret 18.12.4. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Taxied into mud patch, Mallala, SA, 21.7.42. Crashed attempting to land in fog after night cross-country flight, 1.5 miles north-east of Mallala, SA, 21.7.43. LAC Colin Walter Cook (student pilot) was trapped in the cockpit and died of his injuries on 22.7.42.
    W2257.1 AD 28.6.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Mid-air collision with W2254, 1.5 miles south of Mallala, SA, 14.10.41. P/O Charles Edwards Somerville (Instr) and LAC John Gordon Maslin (student pilot) killed in this aircraft.
    W2260.1 AD 28.6.41. 4 SFTS 20.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Tailwheel collapsed on rough ground, Geraldton, WA, 25.2.42. Tailplane hit concrete block, Georgina SLG, WA, 17.3.42. Landed with wheels partially retracted, Geraldton, WA, 11.11.42. Taxying accident, Geraldton, WA, 1.12.43. ANA overhaul 25.9.44. 4 ARDRP 12.6.45. 87 )BU 22.1.46. 7 CU 18.2.46. 87 OBU 1.4.46. Sold 1.6.46. CoR No 1059 as VH-AXC issued 13.9.46 to G.W. Lewis, Flying Doctor Service, Kalgoorlie, WA. Re-registered VH-BXC 28.10.48 when AXC became a prohibited marking. Named 'Learmonth'. Transferred 24.7.58 to Bell Bros Pty Ltd, Guildford, WA. Cancelled 26.10.61. Aircraft destroyed' after being burned for fire practice Perth Airport 26.10.61. Pictures of destruction can be found at http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Avro%20Anson%20VH-BXC%20BIF.htm.
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  • W2261.1 AD 12.7.41. GRS 6.9.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Crash-landed near Woodend, Vic, 4.2.42. 1 AD 9.2.42. Ansett 11.3.42. 1 AD 30.7.42. 6 SFTS 10.8.42. 67 Sqn “MK-M” 28.9.42. Force-landed in the sea during anti-submarine patrol, Bass Strait 21.6.43. P/O A.E. Packer (pilot) and Sgt B.F. Duffy injured; F/Sgt C.C. Cooper (navigator) missing.
    W2262.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS 20.9.41. Taxied into stationary W2051, Geraldton, WA, 26.9.41. Forced landing near Bowgada, WA, while on cross-country to Tenindawa LG 28.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Ground looped after landing downwind, Georgina SLG, WA, 6.4.42. Crashed into the side of a hill between Clackline and Mokine, WA, 9.10.42 while in use by 68 Sqn. RAAF Pearce for salvage 14.10.42. “The plane crashed shortly after 1 pm on a property leased by Mr G.E. Harvey. His wife saw the plane approaching very low, it went over the house then hit the ground beyond some trees about 3/4 mile from the house. There was an explosion a few minutes later and a cloud of smoke was seen rising. When Mrs Harvey arrived at the site, the wreck was a flaming mess with machine gun ammunition going off constantly. The sound of the crash was heard for several miles. The bodies of the 4 crew were flung from the plane, the rudder catapulted over the wreck and landed up a large tree about 20 metres further on from where the plane landed. The remains of F/O Birt were interred in the Northam Cemetery (Anglican section) on Sunday October 11th, 1942. Padre RJ Percy Clarke of the Air Force initiated.” (The Northam Advertiser, Sat Oct 17th, 1942) (Link to ‘Loss of Avro Anson W2262 near Clackline, WA. (Graham Higgs)
    W2265.1 AD 6.7.41. 2 AOS 2.8.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Mount Gambier, SA, 7.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 28.12.41. 1 AD 25.1.42. GRS 9.2.42. Taxying accident, Cressy, Vic, 19.6.42. Ansett overhaul 6.7.43. 1 AD 4.1.44. 8 SFTS 10.1.44. 1 WAGS 26.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. Sold 9.5.47.
    W2267.1 AD 6.7.41. GRS 2.8.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Yanakie, Vic, 16.1.42. Ansett 25.10.43. 1 AD 29.5.44. 6 SFTS 26.6.44. Forced landing after engine failure, Ardrossan ELG, SA, 22.4.45. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2270.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS 31.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2271.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS "89" 3.8.41. Engine failure while overshooting and landed in tree, near Tenindewa SLG, WA, 26.10.41. Converted to components 18.12.41.
    W2273.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS "96" 20.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed into Greenough River on take-off, Yuin LG, WA, 3.2.42. Overshot landing, undercarriage collapsed and aircraft nosed over, Kojarena SLG, WA, 2.12.42. Landed with undercarriage partially retracted, Geraldton, WA, 5.4.43. 87 OBU 2.8.45. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2274.1 AD 6.7.41. Only airframe received. Converted to components 22.8.41.
    W2275.1 AD 6.7.41. GRS 27.10.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Engine stalled, crash landed, Bairnsdale, Vic, 18.11.43.
    W2276.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS 31.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Taxied into W2133, Geraldton, WA, 23.1.42. ANA 21.2.44. 4 SFTS 14.8.44. 87 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2277.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS 31.8.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Struck fence after forced landing, Georgina SLG, WA, 3.2.42. Forced landing with undercarriage partially retracted 8 miles east of Dongarra, WA, 19.4.43. ANA overhaul 12.6.44. 4 SFTS 26.12.44. 87 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 24.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2278.1 AD 6.7.41. 4 SFTS 20.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Hit by R3455 which was taking off at night, Kojarina SLG, WA, 20.7.42. ANA 10.8.42. 4 SFTS 22.2.43. 87 OBU (date?). CMU Evans Head 22.7.45. SOC 6.2.48.
    W2364.1 AD 27.7.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. 100 Sqn 4.8.42. 67 Sqn "MK-A" 28.9.42. Guinea Airways 18.10.44. 6 SFTS 2.4.45. CMU Mallala (date?). AGRS 23.12.46. For sale at AGRS Ballarat 24.4.53.
    W2365.1 AD 27.7.41. GRS 30.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Ansett 11.12.44. 1 AD 7.5.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. CMU Benalla (date?). TTSD 16.1.47. 2 AD 24.4.47. Sold 18.6.47. CoR No ???? as VH-BDO issued 16.1.48 to H.W. Chapman, Dulwich, NSW. Transferred 1.7.48 to East-West Airlines, Tamworth, NSW. Crashed after engine failure on take-off Tamworth, NSW, 12.10.49. Cancelled 20.5.50.
    W2366.1 AD 27.7.41. GRS 30.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Became lost at night and crash landed, Bacchus Marsh, Vic, 1.2.43. 7 AD 7.2.43. SOC 29.7.44.
    W2367.2 AP 29.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Tailplane damaged while taxying, Port Lincoln, SA, 14.3.42. 2 AOS 17.11.44. Converted to components 8.5.46.
    W2368.1 AD 27.7.41. 6 SFTS 29.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Precautionary night landing, 90 miles north-east of Geraldton, WA, 31.7.43. Guinea Airways 20.1.44. 6 SFTS 26.12.44. Sold to Morris and Walesby, Gladesville, NSW, 26.2.47.
    W2369.1 AD 27.7.41. GRS 16.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Crashed at night 1 mile south of Kirk Point, Corio Bay, Vic, 11.3.42.
    W2370.2 AP 29.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed at night (apparently lost) into Lake Albert, SA, 3.6.42. 4 crew, Sgts Finlay Emmerson Anderson, Joseph Gray Myers and Graeme Yeoman Wadlow and LAC William Stanley Butler all killed.
    W2372.1 AD 27.7.41. GRS 16.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. 1 AD 25.1.42. GRS 9.2.42. Crash landed, Mallacoota, Vic, 3.3.42. Ansett 11.3.42. 1 AD 9.7.42. 6 SFTS 20.7.42. GRS 5.1.45. 1 CRD 14.9.45. SOC 3.7.47.
    W2373.2 AP 29.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Crashed during night flying exercise, Mallala, SA, 7.9.42. LAC Patrick John Brady (student pilot) killed.
    W2374.1 AD 27.7.41. 6 SFTS 29.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Forced landing after engine failure, 12 miles south of Mallala, SA, 11.2.42. Landed with undercarriage retracted, Lower Light SLG, SA, 19.1.43. Collided with W2145 after landing, Mallala, SA, 28.12.43. Guinea Airways 15.1.44. 6 SFTS 24.1.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 7.3.47. CMU Tocumwal 11.11.48. Airflite Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW, 9.11.49. 2 AD 4.9.50. 1 AD 12.9.50. 2 AD 9.12.53. 3 AD 1.9.54. SOC 15.2.55. CoR No 2290 as VH-WMA issued 8.7.55 to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Radio Physics, Sydney, NSW. Used for rainmaking experiments by cloud seeding. Transferred to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW, 12.58. Adastra requested change of registration to VH-AGO 21.7.59 but this was refused by DCA as the registration had been used by a crashed aircraft. Withdrawn from use, Mascot 1959. Cancelled 16.12.59. Last reported derelict outside Adastra hangar, Mascot 12.62. Scrapped Mascot. (Link to Image as VH-WMA).
  • Images of W2374.
  • W2375.1 AD 27.7.41. GRS 30.11.41. Fitted turret 17.12.41. Hit by tractor (where?) 15.4.42. Struck fence during forced landing after engine failure, Currie aerodrome, King Island. 29.6.42. Ansett 14.7.42. 1 AD 15.10.42. GRS 26.10.42. 1 CF 3.1.43. 7 CU 24.6.44. ANA 23.9.44. 7 CU 23.6.45. 87 OBU 28.3.46. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2376.1 AD 27.7.41. 2 AOS 24.10.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 16.2.42. 1 SFTS 20.6.42. GRS 14.7.42. Overshot into soft ground, Cressy, Vic, 1.10.42. SOC 16.10.47.
    W2377.1 AD 27.7.41. 2 AOS 30.11.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. GRS 23.3.42. Anset 20.9.43. 1 AD 6.6.44. 6 SFTS 22.6.44. Sold to new England Airways 4.10.46.
    W2378.2 AP 29.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Fitted turret 19.12.41. Guinea Airways overhaul 29.11.44. 6 SFTS 2.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 7.3.47. CMU Tocumwal 15.11.48. Airflite Pty Ltd 11.11.49. 3 AD 10.7.50. 1 AD 1.11.50. Sold 21.4.53. CoR No 2307 as VH-CAC issued 7.1.54 to Department of Civil Aviation, Melbourne, Vic. (Allocated Papua New Guinea Region and based at Port Moresby). Crashed at unknown location .58. Cancelled 20.6.58 as 'Destroyed'.
  • Images of W2378.
  • W2434.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Swung on landing and undercarriage collapsed, Mallala, SA, 18.12.41. Forced landing due weather, Tumby Bay, SA, 27.7.42. Ansett overhaul21.3.44. 1 AD 7.11.44. 6 SFTS 4.1.45. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2435.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Forced landing in the sea for no known reason, 1 mile south-south-east of Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, SA, 3.6.42. Sgt Frederick Reginald Cassidy (Instructor), Sgt Kenneth Walter Hailey, LAC Laurence Francis Pickup and Sgt David Roderick Stewart all killed.
    W2443.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. Undershot at night and hit fence, Mallala, SA, 25.11.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. 71 Sqn 31.1.43. Tyre burst and undercarriage collapsed on take-off, Amberley, Qld, 1.2.43. APL 2.4.43. 3 AD 3.1.44. 8 SFTS 4.2.44. 3 CRD 17.6.45. Converted to components 25.11.45.
    W2448.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Ansett 24.11.43. 1 AD 18.9.44. 6 SFTS 25.9.44. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 7.3.47. Sold 5.10.48. CoR No 1708 as VH-CAL issued 12.4.50 to Department of Civil Aviation, Melbourne, Vic. (Allocated to Qld Region 1950 to 1954, NSW Region 1954-1957). Cancelled 20.8.58 (withdrawn from use).
  • Images of W2448.
  • W2451.1 AD 12.9.41. 6 SFTS 17.11.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. Taxied into gun pit, Nhill, Vic, 30.10.42. CRD 22.11.43. Converted to components 4.4.44.
    W2472.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS "51" 27.9.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Guinea Airways 17.1.44. 6 SFTS 27.12.44. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 7.3.47. CMU Tocumwal 17.11.48. Sold 24.4.54. From Queensland Air Museum "It should be noted that for many years there was some doubt as to the correct military identity of VH-BIF which was thought to be W2472, but it is now believed to be AX305. Anson AX305 is understood to have a fuselage number of R3/LW/107500. This number is carried on a data plate which was found affixed to the fuselage of VH-BIF at the time of its recovery from Charleville. Anson W2472 is understood to have a fuselage number in the range R3/LW/88521 (W2434) to R3/LW/88569 (W2486). Anson W2472 has since been located at Miles, Qld. As these numbers were not allocated in strict sequence, it is not possible to extrapolate corresponding military serial numbers or vice versa. The weight of evidence now suggests that VH-BIF is ex AX305."
    The RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Center acquired W2472 in 2010. Although there was initial uncertainty about its ID they are now confident that it is in fact W2472. It was located at Roma having previously been located at Miles.
    It is now under restoration at the RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Center
  • Images of W2472.
  • W2473.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Guinea Airways 12.11.43. 4 SFTS 29.5.44. 87 OBU 2.8.45. Sold 3.2.47. CoR No 1208 as VH-AGX issued 6.3.47 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth. Sold 13.2.48 to R.E. Bower, Nedlands, WA. Departed Perth for Singapore 16.2.48. Aircraft was reported missing near Port Hedland 17.2.48 but found after search on Pardoo Station airstrip, bogged in mud left by recent cyclone. Aircraft was pulled out by a team of donkeys and delayed there for 8 days. Departed Darwin for Timor 4.3.48. Departed Koepang for Bali 5.3.48. but became overdue and a search was mounted which found the aircraft on Waingupu strip in the Sumbawa Islands, reportedly forced to land there because of a propeller fault. Aircraft eventually flew on to Batavia where a radio was fitted for the rest of the trip. Sold to F.W. Morgan, 1 Laidlaw Bldgs, Battery Road, Singapore on 26.3.48. Cancelled 20.7.48. Became 'RI-004' with the newly formed Indonesian Air Force (AURI). Reported to have been captured by the Dutch at Magoewo 19.12.47. Broken up by the Dutch.
    W2481.1 AD 12.9.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. Crashed during night navigation training flight, 3 miles west of Noora, SA, 25.9.43. F/O Lawrence Andrew Flynn (pilot), P/O Albert Nicholas Rapp (Observer), Sgt John Vickery Bowman (Observer) and Sgt Ronald Edwin Obst (Observer) all killed.
    W2483.2 AP 8.8.41. 1 ANS 6.9.41. 1 AOS 13.12.43. 2 AP 12.6.44. Ansett 24.7.44. 2 AD 26.2.45. 6 SFTS 8.3.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 23.11.48. Sold 9.7.54. CoR No 2111 as VH-BEV issued 23.8.54 to Air Express Co., Archerfield, Qld. Transferred 16.1.58 to Gillham Airways Pty Ltd, Mackay, Qld "Coral Voyager". Withdrawn from use, Archerfield, Qld, 1960 and became derelict. Deleted 1.7.62 by order of DGCA.
    W2486.2 AP 8.8.41. 1 ANS 6.9.41. 1 WAGS 12.9.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Ansett 7.3.45. 1 AD 30.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. Sold 12.7.46. CoR No 1671 as VH-BLG issued 21.10.49 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW "Ginger Meggs". Badly damaged in forced landing near Mudgee .59. Withdrawn from use at Mudgee and became derelict. Cancelled 26.6.61. Nose section held by the Australian War memorial, Canberra and displayed in the Pacific at War Exhibition.
    W2488.1 AD 12.9.41. GRS 9.11.41. 2 AOS 28.12.41. Ran through fence after forced landing 18 miles south-east of Penola, SA, 19.4.43. 3 AOS (date?). 4 SFTS 28.2.44. ANA 20.1.45. 4 CRD 26.11.45. Converted to components 26.2.46.
    W2493.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 14.9.44. 6 SFTS 12.2.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 22.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. Awaiting disposal, Point Cook, 31.3.53.
    W2494.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 19.12.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 25.9.44. 6 SFTS 24.2.45. 4 CU 21.5.45. SHQ Maryborough 25.3.46. Sold to Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade, Brisbane 10.10.46.
    W2495.1 AD 12.9.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Struck wind indicator in night landing, Mallala, SA, 15.6.42. Ansett overhaul 17.4.44. 1 AD 28.11.44. 1 AD Ferry Flight 16.1.45. 6 SFTS 22.1.45. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2501.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 5 CRD 13.9.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    W2508.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. Forced landing after engine failure, Kingaroy, Qld, 19.3.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. DAP Parafield 23.4.45. 5 CRD 28.9.45. Converted to components 18.10.45.
    W2510.1 AD 12.9.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Landed with undercarriage unlocked, Mallala, SA, 5.12.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Forced landing with undercarriage retracted at night when lost, 5 miles south-west of Port Augusta, SA, 14.2.42. Guinea Airways 24.7.42. 6 SFTS 8.3.43. Ground looped after landing, Columbo SLG, SA, 27.1.44. Guinea Airways 21.3.44. 6 SFTS 2.10.44. 6 CU 30.11.44. 5 CRD 18.12.45. SOC 20.8.47.
    W2522.1 AD 12.9.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Ansett 26.10.44. 1 AD 13.2.45. 67 Sqn "MK-O" 16.3.45. 7 CU 24.5.45. 17 RSU storage 25.6.45. 7 CU 12.7.45. AFRU 14.11.45. SOC 15.10.48.
    W2524.2 AP 8.9.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Fitted turret 23.1.42. Crashed during forced landing, Wasleys, 5 miles east of Mallala, SA, 14.11.42. Guinea Airways 17.11.42. 6 SFTS 6.7.43. SHQ Mallala, 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2529.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.42. Fitted turret 19.1.42. Ansett 19.11.43. 1 AD 29.8.44. 6 SFTS 1.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 10 CU 17.10.44. 2 AOS 11.2.45. 8 CU 20.6.45. 3 CRD 18.10.45. 3 AD (date?). SOC 7.10.48.
    W2530.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 19.9.41. Mid-air collision with AW660 3.6.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. Tyre burst, Mallala, SA, 22.10.42. 7 AD 31.1.43. Converted to components 29.7.44.
    W2540.2 AP 8.8.41. 6 SFTS 27.9.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 2 AOS 31.1.44. Ansett 2.1.45. 1 AD 21.5.45. SHQ Laverton for Army Coop, 8.10.45. 11 EFTS storage 12.11.45. CMU Benalla (date?). CMU Tocumwal 3.12.48. Sold to R.H. Grant Trading Co, Hawthorn, Vic, 14.8.53.
    W2542.2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. 67 Sqn 24.10.42. Ansett 15.10.44. 1 AD 23.1.45. 67 Sqn "MK-R" 5.2.45. 11 EFTS storage 20.9.45. Sold 4.11.46. CoR No 1209 as VH-ALS issued 11.3.47 to Engineers Laboratories Pty. Ltd., Sydney, NSW. Transferred 15.3.47 to Guinea Air Traders, Lae, NG. Cancelled 15.11.47 and struck off 10.3.48 'To be disposed of in parts". Scrapped at Lae.
    W2556.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 3 SFTS 6.1.42. 6 SFTS 6.4.42. Struck ground at night (where?) 23.5.42. Disappeared in St Vincent Gulf after passing over Parham, SA, on test flight. 14.7.43. 5 crew all killed: F/O John Frederick Pettit (pilot), Cpl James Denis Horrigan (observer), LAC Donald Beresford Tucker, AC1 John Vincent Colin Matheson, AC1 Denis Whenan.
    W2557.2 AP 10.10.41. 2 AD 1.11.41. 1 ANS 3.1.42. Radio School 16.2.43. Butler Air Transport 26.3.42. 2 AD 18.5.42. 1 RIMU 8.7.42. 2 AD 7.9.42. 1 RIMU 5.10.42. 12 RSU 26.12.42. 1 RIMU 1.1.43. 12 RSU 4.4.43. 1 RIMU 6.6.43. 3 CU 28.12.43. Ansett 25.1.44. 2 AP 20.7.44. 5 AD 23.7.44. 1 AOS 14.8.44. GRS 15.1.45. Forced landing at night, Morwell,Vic, 24.2.45. SOC 27.10.47.
    W2558.2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. Guinea Airways overhaul 22.11.44. 6 SFTS 27.7.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 7.3.47. Sold 5.10.48. CoR No 1696 as VH-CAK issued 10.2.50 to Department of Civil Aviation, Melbourne, Vic. Allocated to WA Region and based at Perth/Maylands. Subsequently based at Perth/Guildford. Became bogged at De Ros Hill Airstrip, WA, 3.9.53. CofA expired 18.11.59. Cancelled 4.5.60 Burned at Perth Airport for fire practice .60.
  • Images of W2558.
  • W2563.1 AD 12.9.41. 2 AP 10.10.41. 6 SFTS 6.12.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. 67 Sqn "MK-P" 15.2.43. Starboard oleo collapsed while taxying, (where?) 21.7.43. 22 RSU 16.8.43. 9 RSU 22.1.44. 1 AP 26.1.44. 6 SFTS 4.9.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. SOC 2.11.48.
    W2564.1 AD 28.8.41. 1 CF 4.11.41. Ansett 8.11.43. 1 AD 3.4.44. 1 CU 24.4.44. SHQ Laverton 5.6.44. Ground looped while taking off, Gawler, SA, 12.6.45.
    W2565.2 AP 10.10.41. 1 ANS 16.2.42. 1 WAGS 12.9.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. DAP Parafield 18.5.45. 5 CRD 28.9.45. Converted to components 29.11.45.
    W2568.1 AD 28.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.41. Guinea Airways 29.1.45. 6 SFTS 28.8.45. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill, 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. For sale, Point Cook, 24.4.43.
    W2569.1 AD 28.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.41. Ground looped on landing and hit AW680, Mallala, SA, 14.7.42. Heavy landing, Columbo SLG, SA, 27.5.42 (?). DAP Parafield 23.7.45. 5 CRD 23.10.45. Converted to components 7.11.45.
    W2570.1 AD 29.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.41. CGS 2.12.42. 11 EFTS storage 10.1.46. CMU Benalla (date?). CMU Cootamundra 29.3.46. SOC 2.2.47.
    W2574.1 AD 29.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Mallala, SA, 8.7.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 2 AOS 4.1.43. Crashed 9 miles east of Nhill, Vic, 13.5.43. (Cause unknown but possibly lost control in cloud).
    W2575.1 AD 29.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.41. Forced landing after engine failure, Mallala, SA, 8.7.42. 67 Sqn 28.9.42. 2 AOS 4.1.43. Dived into the ground at high speed 9 miles east of Nhill, Vic, 13.5.43. (Cause unknown but possibly lost control in cloud). Fg Off Leonard Fraser Gillespie Seabrook (1st pilot) PO Harold Wilfred Rash (2nd pilot) Sgt David Richard James Edwards (WOAG) Sgt Victor Keith Jordan (WOAG), LAC Victor Vernon Darby (Aircrew 2) killed.
    W2579.1 AD 29.8.41. 2 AP 26.9.41. 6 SFTS 25.10.42. Forced landing, Columbo SLG, SA, 13.7.42. Guinea Airways overhaul 20.1.44. 6 SFTS 24.8.44. 2 AD 29.9.44. 1 CU 23.11.44. 1 AD Test and ferry Flight 12.3.46. 1 AD 22.5.46. SOC 19.5.48.
    W2582.1 AD 28.8.41. 6 SFTS 17.11.41. Guinea Airways overhaul 19.1.44. 6 SFTS 14.8.44. 2 AOS 28.8.44. SOC 21.2.47.
    W2586.1 AD 28.8.41. 6 SFTS (date?). 2 ANS 24.1.42. 3 AOS 8.12.42. 4 SFTS 28.2.44. SOC 28.2.47.
    W2589.1 AD 28.8.41. 6 SFTS 22.11.41. Ground looped while taxying, Lower Light SLG, SA, 27.1.44. Guinea Airways 14.2.44. 6 SFTS 28.9.44. 6 CU 30.11.44. 5 CRD 21.1.46. SOC 20.8.47. Nose held in the Lincoln Nitschke collection, Greenock, SA.
    W2591.1 AD 28.8.41. GRS 2.11.41. 2 AOS 28.12.41. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Ansett Essendon overhaul 20.3.44. 1 AD 30.10.44. 6 SFTS 16.11.44. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Nhill 18.2.46. Point Cook store 2.9.46. Sold 14.11.47. CoR No 1538 as VH-BGO issued 5.5.48 to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Destroyed in hangar fire, Nhill, Vic, 5.6.48. Cancelled 23.6.48. (For account of the fire see http://www.adastra.adastron.com/aircraft/anson/vh-bgo.htm).
    W2598.1 AD 28.8.41. 6 SFTS 1.11.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. 2 AOS 20.9.43. 1 AOS "598" 13.12.43. Forced landing, Kempsey, NSW, 17.2.44. 2 AP 22.5.44. 2 AD Ferry Flight 29.1.45. CMU Evans head 13.8.45. CMU Narranderra 18.4.46. Sold 14.11.46. CoR No 1461 as VH-EWA issued 19.12.47 to East-West Airlines, Tamworth, NSW, "Ulm". Re-registered VH-EWZ 21.3.51 to East-West Airlines, Tamworth, NSW. Transferred 5.11.51 to Airlines (WA) Ltd, Perth, WA. Transferred 22.3.54 to O.O.B. Odgaard, trading as WA Boring Co. Perth, WA. Withdrawn from use at Perth Airport 27.5.61. Cancelled 15.2.62. Burned for fire practice, Perth Airport 14.8.62.
    W2599.2 AP 10.10.41. 2 AOS 9.2.42. 3 AOS 10.12.43. Guinea Airways (date?) 6 SFTS “73” 2.12.44. CMU Mallala (date?). CMU Benalla 21.5.45. Sold to Adastra Airways Pty Ltd 30.7.48. Sold to Marshall Airways, Bankstown (date?) Held at Bankstown, NSW, unregistered and in RAAF markings still carrying “73” until broken up 4.64.
  • Images of W2599.
  • W2616.1 AD 27.10.41. 6 SFTS 28.12.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. 67 Sqn "MK-Y" 23.9.43. Ansett overhaul 26.10.44. 1 AD 30.1.45. 1 CU 30.7.45. 4 CU 25.10.45. SHQ Maryborough 29.1.46. Sold 10.10.46. CoR No 1369 as VH-BBT issued 30.7.47 to Queensland Aerial Ambulance and Taxi Services Pty Ltd, Archerfield, Qld. Cancelled 14.10.47 as no CofA completed. Not converted.
  • Images of W2616.
  • W2618.1 AD 27.10.41. 6 SFTS 28.12.41. 2 ANS 24.1.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. Guinea Airways 29.3.45. 6 SFTS 18.10.45. AGRS 23.12.46. 3 AD 9.2.48. SAN 15.9.49. East Sale 25.8.50. Sold 16.3.53. CoR No 2109 as VH-CAB issued 12.8.54 to Department of Civil Aviation, Melbourne, Vic. Allocated to Queensland Region and based in Brisbane all its civil life. Withdrawn from use 14.9.60. Cancelled 30.6.62.
    W2619.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 6.4.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. Collided with AX121 while taxying, Bundaberg, Qld, 11.5.44. 1 WAGS 26.12.44. AGRS 27.11.45. SOC 19.5.47.
    W2620.2 AP 28.11.41. 8 SFTS 23.2.42. 71 Sqn 12.8.42. 8 SFTS 11.11.42. APL overhaul 14.4.45. 3 CRD 29.6.45. Converted to components 21.11.45.
    W2638.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 10.5.42. 73 Sqn 9.11.42. Crashed while making forced landing on the beach when out of fuel, near Nabiac, NSW, 16.7.43. (aircraft had become lost and made landing after flying for almost 6 ½ hours - 2 hours beyond accepted endurance).
    W2639.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 20.4.42. 73 Sqn 19.10.42. Ansett 27.3.44. 2 AP 9.11.44. GRS 18.11.44. Overshot, ground looped and hit fence, Bairnsdale, Vic, 11.2.45. 1 CRD 14.6.45. Converted to components 2.5.46.
    W2655.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 20.4.42. 1 ANS 22.2.43. 1 WAGS 8.3.43. Struck high-tension wires, 5 miles south of Tatura, Vic, 16.8.43. 2 AOS 20.12.43. Struck high-tension wires, near Carramut, Vic, 1.3.44.
    W2657.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 16.3.42. 1 AOS 20.4.42. Struck fence on take-off, Cootamundra, NSW, 17.6.42. 1 NWS 21.1.43. 1 AOS 22.2.43. Forced landing after engine failure, Dooen - 5 miles north of Horsham, Vic, 26.11.43. APL 30.11.44. 3 AD 26.8.45. 3 CRD 3.9.45. 10 EFTS storage 3.12.45. Sold 19.8.46. CoR No 1056 as VH-AVS issued 2.9.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 28.10.46 to New England Airways Aerial Ambulance and Air Freight Service, Sydney "Spirit of Coffs Harbour". Transferred 6.5.48 to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, Mascot, NSW. Transferred 4.10.51 to Aerial Surveys (WA) Pty Ltd, Perth, WA. Crashed Carnamah, WA 7.11.52. Cancelled 11.6.53 as scrapped.
    W2659.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 6 SFTS 12.10.42. Collided with AX240 while taxying, Lower Light SLG, SA, 12.6.43. SHQ Mallala 3.7.47. SOC 30.5.47.
    W2660.2 AD 6.2.42. 2 AP 13.7.42. 2 AOS 31.8.42. 3 AOS 8.12.43. 2 AOS 13.3.44. 1 WAGS 12.10.44. Ansett 7.2.45. 1 AD 9.7.45. 11 EFTS storage 22.8.45. 1 AD Test and ferry Flight 6.2.46. 1 AD 20.6.46. SOC 19.5.48.

    The Author of this page is Joe Barr.

    Source: National Archives, Accident Cards supplied by Darryl Gibbs, CASA Aircraft Register, The Book 'The Searchers' by Jim Eames, RAAF Aircraft Status Cards, Logbook of R.W.Hill, RAAF Historical Section, “The Anson File” by Ray Sturtivant, “The Submarine Hunters: Nos, 66, 67, 71, 73 and 107 Squadrons” by John Lever, “Warpaint Series No.53: The Avro Anson” by Alan W. Hall, “RAAF Camouflage and Markings” (2 vols) by Geoffrey Pentland, Mike Mercovic, RAAFA Museum, Bull Creek, Will Clough and the South Australia RSL website ‘South Australian War Memorials” www.tributesofhonour.info/ , John Hillier South Australia Aviation Museum, Alan Penhall, Ballarat.

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