VH-BXQ   Percival P.34A Proctor III                  (c/n  H.565)

                                 

                                     Here's a nice shot of a Proctor which was first registered in Australia in 1958.    Barrie Colledge
                                     took it at an air show at Point Cook in 1971.  It was previously on the UK register as G-ANGC
                                     (ex RAF LZ804).    VH-BXQ was written off in a crash at Lake Connewarre, Victoria, in Oct
                                     1972.  In order to be granted a C of A beyond 1962 (the year most Proctors were withdrawn)
                                     expensive tests and mods to the glue joints had to be made to the wood-bonded airframe. As the
                                     costs of doing this were uneconomical for many owners, they were struck off the register one by one .
                                     Geoff Goodall advises that VH-BXQ was one of only four Proctors left by 1969.