VH-PAX  Piper PA-24-250 Comanche                  (c/n 24-3219)

                                    

                                            This Comanche 250 was photographed at Adelaide Airport by Geoff Goodall in October
                                            1962,  having been imported the previous month by Queensland Piper agents Commerce
                                            International Pty Ltd of Archerfield.   It later was a participant in the Ansett Air Race and
                                            Greg Banfield saw it at Bankstown during the overnight layover on 29 March 1964 (below).
                                            It had been entered by noted western NSW agricultural aviator  J.D. Hazelton of Orange. 
                                            Obviously the owner(s) were keen Rally fans, since it was also in the Benson and Hedges
                                            Race as seen in the third shot by Mike Madden in October 1976.  VH-PAX was written
                                            off in a crash at Bombala, NSW on 10 May 1981.