VH-UNA Piper PA-23-250 Aztec B
(c/n 27-2286)
This Aztec was first
registered in May 1963 as VH-CMH
for Hazelton Air Services of Cudal,
NSW with a registration including Max Hazelton's
initials. It was sold in March 1964 to United
Air Pty Ltd of Sydney, a new
charter company operating from
the Flight Facilities terminal at
Sydney Airport and
re-registered VH-UNA. . Geoff Goodall took the above shot
at Adelaide
Airport
in June 1964. .
The following year United Air was taken over when Airfast Charter Pty
Ltd purchased Flight
Facilities.
Airfast was an associate company of the large Helicopter Utilities
Pty
Ltd operation and went on to absorb HUPL
in subsequent restructures of the rotary and fixed
wing services. Rowan Hughes sent me a photo
of it (below) taken at Rabaul in 1967. Personages
are: Navy Aide-de-Camp, George Hughes (Airport
Manager), Lord Casey, (the Govenor General
of Australia), Harry West (District Commissioner ENBP) and
Laurie Crowley (of Crowley Airways).
VH-UNA
was
struck-off the register on 18 September 1971 when sold in
Indonesia to subsidiary
Airfast Services Indonesia
P.T. of Makassar. It became PK-OAR.
