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SPANISH MESSERSCHMITT LISTING & HISTORY
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The man
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Contents
Volume 27, Number 3, February-April 2016
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Features
20 Matthews Aviation Pty Ltd
Roger McDonald
profiles the 1930s aviation company
and its Melbourne to Tasmania airline service.
60 New Looks at Old Aircraft
James Kightly
rounds up some aviation
developments in the world of 3D scanning.
66 The one that got away
Michael Claringbould
reveals a momentous tactical
opportunity that went unnoticed by the Allies.
28 The Honourable Hugh Grosvenor
Neil Follett
writes about the brief flying career
of the first person to fly solo around Australia.
72 The move to Madras
Andy Wright
reviews the new Erickson Aircraft
Collection in Madras, Oregon.
34 Recreating the ‘Luftwaffe’
James Kightly
examines the strange selection of
aircraft used to re-enact the defeated W.W.II air force.
40 Messerschmitt’s Storming
Schwalbe
A revolutionary aircraft that never met its full potential.
Luigino Caliaro
meets a new production Me 262.
76 Planes of Fame keeps
them flying
Frank B. Mormillo
looks at Ed Maloney’s
Planes of Fame Air Museum.
Regulars
COVER: The Erickson
Aircraft Collection’s
‘Oscar’, N43JE ,
flown by Brent
Connor, picture
Philip Makanna,
www.GHOSTS.com
48 Connie’s Luftwaffe
Gary Brown
details the history of the Spanish Hispano
Buchón and the recent sale of a collection in Texas.
54 New Guinea Dragon Eater
Michael Claringbould
studies the history behind
the relatively intact wreckage of one of the world’s last
Nakajima Ki-49 bombers.
04 News
26 Personal
Effects
42 Poster
80 Airshows
F L I G H T PAT H
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News
The 1944 de Havilland Dragon Rapide NR683 is flying
again following an engine rebuild.
[Roger Cain]
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owned by Richard Martin in Califorinia.
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Californian dreams
Two very different former military trans-
ports have returned to the sky in the US af-
ter periods of inactivity. The late ‘Bud’ Field’s
1944 de Havilland Dragon Rapide, built as a
Dominie Mk.I (NR683), has flown again af-
ter an engine rebuild. It saw extensive com-
mercial service post-war before arriving in
California in 1971. Registered as N683DH, it
flew for a few years before ending up with
the EAA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
William ‘Bud’ Field of Hayward, Califor-
nia, purchased the aircraft in 1992 and, with
John Reed, hired Russ Harmuth to begin
restoration. Everything ground to a halt for
three years while waiting for the engines to
be rebuilt. Medical issues prevented Har-
muth from continuing but Andrew Turpen
and Steve Cook completed the project. Sad-
ly, ‘Bud’ Field passed away several months
before the first flight in May 2010.
With barely ten new hours on the air-
frame, the left engine failed on take-off. Vin-
tech has since rebuilt it and the Rapide is
airworthy again. Based at Yolo Airport, Cali-
fornia, it is, according to caretaker Jim Rol-
lison, “one of the smoothest flying planes”.
Of the many Douglas DC-3/C-47/C-53 se-
ries of aircraft, there were only two early C-
41s built. They were C-41 38-502 and C-41A
40-070. The C-41 has been incorrectly identi-
fied as a DC-2 variant, but both aircraft de-
rive from the DC-3A. The C-41A has changed
hands many times and the original sleeper
windows above the main front cabin win-
dows were removed.
Richard Martin recently bought the air-
craft (N341A) and had it flown on a ferry per-
mit from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Solano
County Airport at the end of January. It then
departed for Aurora, Oregon, for mainte-
nance. It will be based at Napa or Solano Air-
ports once a hangar is acquired.
Roger Cain
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News
Australia’s Mustang Moves
The only non-CAC built Mustang in Australia, P-51D 45-11526
(VH-FST), was recently flown by Steve Death to its new owners,
Pay’s Air Services, in Scone, New South Wales. The ferry flight fol-
lowed a fresh annual inspection and installation of an overhauled
Packard Merlin. All of the work was carried out by Pay’s staff who
travelled to Parafield, South Australia, where the aircraft had
been in storage. Imported to Western Australia by the late Bill
Wyllie in 1999, and restored by Rob Poynton’s Panama Jack’s, Plat-
inum Fighter Sales have the aircraft listed for sale.
Rob Fox
BELOW:
The P-51D VH-FST being test run at Parafield following the installation of the
overhauled Packard Merlin. The aircraft is now with the Pay collection at Scone, NSW,
pending its sale.
[Phil Hosking]
Rare Photo Recon Mustang
Peter Gill’s restoration of the CA-18 Mk 22 Mustang A68-199 is pro-
gressing at Tyabb. After RAAF service this CAC Mustang was reg-
istered to Fawcett Aviation, at Bankstown, as VH-BOZ in the 1960s
and used as a target tug. In 1979 it was sold to Doug Arnold’s War-
birds of GB Ltd and entangled in the attempt to smuggle the ex-Sid
Marshall Messerschmitt Bf 109G out of Australia (Flightpath Vol.
23, No. 2 & 4). Presently, while work continues on the airframe, the
Packard Merlin engine is in the USA for overhaul.
Rob Fox
ABOVE:
Peter Gill’s rare Mk.22 Mustang (c/n 1524) under restoration at Tyabb.
[Rob Fox]
Pima’s ‘Dutch’
Lodestar
The Pima Air and Space Museum (PASM) in Tucson, Arizona, USA,
is putting the fuselage of a Lockheed Lodestar on display as a ‘walk
through’ display. The fuselage of the transport is from C/No.2274,
formerly 42-55884 and N30N, ‘Lodestar Lady’ of the Commemorative
Air Force. This machine was damaged in 2005 and was used to do-
nate parts to another Lodestar at Pima. The fuselage has, with a good
nod to originality, been repainted into the livery of MSN2104, a ma-
chine of the
Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-
Indisch Leger
(ML-KNIL Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force),
an often overlooked area in American preservation.
Roger Soupart
and
James Kightly
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A Dutch military scheme is a rare sight in an American museum.
[PASM via Roger Soupart]
ivan@campbellaeroclassics.com
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Ph: +64 (0) 3 312 8008
Ivan and Sandy Campbell
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