VH-TGC  Beech 65-A80 Queen Air                     (c/n  ?)

                            
                         
                                  One of four Beech Queen Airs operated by TAA from 1964 to 1967.  They were flown by the
                                  airline on low density routes.  One of them (-TGD) was used in Papua/New Guinea on Sunbird
                                  services for a while. -TGC was added to the register on 26 November 1964 and sold to the
                                  Royal Flying Doctor Service in  July 1968, based in Queensland.  Greg Banfield's nice shot above
                                  was taken at Bankstown in February 1966.  I have lost the provenance of the B&W photo below. 
                                  In 1979 it went to Civil Flying Services at Moorabbin, and a couple more owners later was with
                                  Coddair Airlines of Brisbane.   On 25 October 1985, whilst on a charter flight from Archerfield to
                                  Trinidad Station, Queensland, the pilot attempted (an inadvertent) landing at that remote locale
                                  with the undercarriage up. When the propellers struck the ground the pilot attempted to go around,
                                  but the damage to the props was such that the aircraft banked and yawed to port and crashed.
                                  There were fatal casualties, but the accident report does not state how many souls were killed.