VH-BHA  Auster IV                                 (c/n  881)

                                                                        
                                 
                                           This is actually the second VH-BHA.  The first was the Auster Mk. III  which became VH-PCR.
                                           This aircraft was serialed MT108 when an Auster AOP Mk. IV with the RAF.   It was civilianized
                                           as G-ANGX and exported to Australia in November of 1954 as VH-AZJ.   It became VH-DDW
                                           in 1959 and assumed its current identity the following year.  John Wheatley's photo above was taken
                                           somewhere around 1970.  Earlier it had been a participant in the Ansett Air Race in 1964, entered
                                           by G.S. Ethell of Queensland.       Greg Banfield took the shot below during the Bankstown stopover
                                           on the evening of 29 March 1964.  It was later refurbished and decked out (quite nicely, actually) as
                                           an AOP. Mk IV.    (Heaven forbid that an ex-military machine these days should be permitted to fly
                                           around in civilian livery)!       The nice contemporary shot of it (foot of the page) was taken by Andrei
                                           Bezmylov at the 6th Annual Antique and Classic Aircraft Fly-In at Parafield in March of 2007.