VH-BBB Avro 652A
Anson 1
This Anson has barely been
civilianized. It is still wearing camouflage and the fin
flash has not
been
completely obliterated. Its RAF/RAAF serial was
DG448. The venue is Bankstown,
and the date
is circa mid-1947. (VH-BBB was first registered in April,
1947). It is seen in
a
somewhat later shot (below) from the Geoff Goodall collection at
Essendon in 1950. It was
one
of several Ansons owned and flown by Bill Dwyer of Melbourne to carry
crayfish from
Flinders Island and Tasmania to the Melbourne Fish
markets. In 1952 Dwyer and other
partners
founded Flinders Island Airways at Moorabbin who operated a fleet of
Ansons on
general
cargo work. VH-BBB was withdrawn from service in 1956.