VH-AZU Avro
652A Anson 1
This smartly
decked-out Anson was formerly LT773 with the RAF/RAAF and entered onto
the
Australian civil register in December of
1946. It was another which had been civilianized by
Marshall Airways at Mascot in 1946. Its
first owner was Air Taxi Service of Australia of Sydney
and it was probably registered to that outfit
when the shot above was taken (I have lost the pro-
venance of this print). Then in 1947
it, along with VH-AZX, were ostensibly to have been sold to
Far Eastern Flying Training School in
Hong Kong in 1947 but the deal fell through. VH-AZU failed
a
DCA test on the wingspar glued joints by Marshall Airways at Mascot in
3.48 and ownership of
both -AZU and -AZX was transferred to
Marshall. -AZU never flew again and was taken to the
graveyard at Bankstown. The shot below
from the Geoff Goodall collection, shows it Sid Marshall's
storage yard on the boundary of Bankstown in
February 1964, looking very sad. This relic was
eventually saved, restored in Brisbane and traded to RAF Museum
at Hendon where it is displayed.
