RAAF Amberley Airshow ca.1976 A10-052

[TacAN]

Military version of the Victa Airtourer (?)

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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> Military version of the Victa Airtourer (?)

Yep - basic trainer for the RAAF back then.

[TacAN]

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>> Military version of the Victa Airtourer (?)
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> Yep - basic trainer for the RAAF back then.
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There's still around 78 of them on the Aussie VH register. (and goodness
knows how many in NZ)

Probably the only aircraft that was built by a lawn mower company.


Graham

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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>>> Military version of the Victa Airtourer (?)
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>> Yep - basic trainer for the RAAF back then.
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> There's still around 78 of them on the Aussie VH register. (and goodness
> knows how many in NZ)
>
> Probably the only aircraft that was built by a lawn mower company.

Wasn't there a proposal to put it back into production? Can't remember
off-hand what it was to be called, but AirTourer or something....

[TacAN]

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> Wasn't there a proposal to put it back into production? Can't remember
> off-hand what it was to be called, but AirTourer or something....
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Does sound familiar.



http://www.aarg.com.au/AirTourer.htm

Production was continued in NZ after Aus operations closed down.

Graham

[David1948]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:36:56 +0000, TacAN wrote:

> "Alan Erskine" > wrote in message
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>> "TacAN" > wrote in message
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>>> Military version of the Victa Airtourer (?)
>>
>> Yep - basic trainer for the RAAF back then.
>>
>>
> There's still around 78 of them on the Aussie VH register. (and
> goodness knows how many in NZ)
>
> Probably the only aircraft that was built by a lawn mower company.
>
>
> Graham

I would have said that it was produced by a company that also built lawn
mowers. A bit like Transfield which also built bridges, but also produced
the Transavia Airtruk.

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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> I would have said that it was produced by a company that also built lawn
> mowers. A bit like Transfield which also built bridges, but also produced
> the Transavia Airtruk.

I thought Transfield bought-out Transavia.

[David1948]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:06:39 +0000, Alan Erskine wrote:

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>> I would have said that it was produced by a company that also built
>> lawn mowers. A bit like Transfield which also built bridges, but also
>> produced the Transavia Airtruk.
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> I thought Transfield bought-out Transavia.

Nope. Transfield created Transavia as a subsidiary for the purposes of
building the Airtruk. That can be confirmed on the Transfield website,
under History.