VH-PCR  Auster III                                 (c/n  654)

                              

                                  This Auster was originally the RAF's NJ834 which was later shipped to the RAAF in 1945,  just
                                  before the end of the war in the Pacific. It was given the serial number A11-37.  It was civilianized
                                  in 1947 as VH-BHA for the Zinc Corporation who paid $1000 for it. Air Agriculture Control Ltd
                                  purchased it in 1951 and re-registered it in their series.  Like VH-PCM it is doubtful that they
                                  intended to relegate it to crop dusting duties.  After a series of owners in the early 1960s it was
                                  destroyed in a crash when it stalled on short finals at a strip at Harden, NSW on 8 May 1966. The
                                  owner, B.M. Osborne was with a would-be purchaser of the craft at the time. Unfortunately both
                                  were killed.