VH-BED  (2)   Auster IIIF                                             (c/n  320)

                                  

                                      Geoff Goodall took the shot above of a privately owned (L.A. Hayward) Auster IIIF in the Tasmanian
                                      Aero Club hangar at Western Junction, Launceston whilst he was on a high school trip from Adelaide
                                      in 1962.  Note the club's Safir VH-AHA in the background.  This Auster was first registered in 1960
                                      as VH-RCT.    It was A11-38 when in the RAAF.   Poor though this early Goodall shot is, it does
                                      show the Auster in the livery it probably adopted when first civilianized.   After several periods of de-
                                      registration it wound up in Drage's Air World Museum in Wangaratta in 1980.  In the new millennium
                                      it was completed restored again and is now flying as the "warbird" A11-38.  Phil Vabre's contemp-
                                      orary shot of it (below) was taken at the AAAA Fly-In at Swan Hill, Victoria in 2005.