VH-AAT  Miles M3A Falcon Major   (c/n  193)

                              

                                  A (comparatively) recent shot of an old aircraft.  This shot of VH-AAT is from the Phil Vabre
                                  collection and was taken at the Avalon Airshow in Feb, 1995.  The gentleman standing over the
                                  starboard wing is Mr. Macarthur Job, the pilot who flew it in.   VH-AAT was imported in 1937,
                                  and was previously G-ADHG.  It was impressed into the RAAF during WW II as A37-3 (one
                                  of six Miles Hawk/Falcon/Merlins to "do time").    I am indebted to Barbara Butler for the shot
                                  of VH-AAT (below) taken at Archerfield in 1938 when the Falcon Major was on the strength of
                                  the Royal Queensland Aero Club.    Finally, at the foot of the page is a pre-war shot of VH-AAT
                                  from the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland collection.