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Date: | Friday 22 November 1946 |
Time: | |
Type: | Avro 652A Anson I |
Owner/operator: | Interstate Air Services |
Registration: | VH-AVZ |
MSN: | 7284 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Port Moresby -
Papua New Guinea
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Higgins Field, Cape York, Australia |
Destination airport: | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-RAF Anson DJ498. Issued to 2 AP, RAAF 30.11.42. 1 AOS 1.2.43. 2 AP 8.9.44. 3 AD 30.12.44. APL 19.2.45. 3 AD 5.10.45. CMU Evans Head 22.10.45. CMU Narranderra 15.3.46. Sold 17.7.46. CoR No 1072 as VH-AVZ issued 16.9.46 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Transferred 4.11.46 to Interstate Air Services, Sydney.
Anson VH-AVZ was written off when the brakes failed during a landing at Port Moresby on 22 November 1946 on arrival from Higgins Field, Cape York, whereupon it ran off the steel mesh runway, rolled into a ditch, and badly damaging the port wing.
Registration VH-AVZ belatedly cancelled 9/1/1948
Sources:
http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austa2/VH-AYG.html [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/Immatriculations/VH%20-%20VH-AAA%20-%20VH-CZZ.htm]
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au//2a4.shtml
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
03-Mar-2012 19:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
09-Apr-2022 07:44 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
31-Oct-2023 22:25 |
Ron Averes |
Updated |