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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover
    Latest Model:DHA-3-3a Drover
    Construction Number:5019
    Last Civil Registration:VH-FBC
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Australia DHA-3-3a cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Australian Aviation Museum, Sydney Bankstown Airport, Sydney, New South Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a DHA-3-3a.

    July 1956

    To Flying Doctor Services, (NSW) with new c/r VH-FDA.

    August 1963


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: DHA-3 Drover 3B VH-FDA The Inlander from the RFDS base at Broken Hill NSW on a medivac at Parafield in August 1963. Green and white with red cross

    1967

    To Beagle Aircraft Sales with new c/r VH-UNK.

    1967


    Photographer: Roger McDonald / Geoff Goodall
    Notes: 1967 photo at Sydney Airport

    1967

    To Hazair Sales with new c/r VH-UMA.

    December 1968


    Photographer: Roger McDonald / Geoff Goodall
    Notes: 1968 photo at Bankstown, New South Wales

    1970

    To Mercury Bay Aero Club with new c/r ZK-DDD.

    19 December 1982


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Gisborne Aerodrome - NZGS, New Zealand

    1983

    To Great Barrier Airlines keeping c/r ZK-DDD.

    19 August 1988


    Photographer: Roger McDonald / Geoff Goodall
    Notes: 1988 photo aircraft at Berwick, Victoria - about to return to the Australian Register after a spell in New Zealand

    1988

    To Robert Youl, CEO of Cavalier Colours Pty Ltd of Mordialloc, Victoria with new c/r VH-FBC.

    1993

    To Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

    Based at Australian Aviation Museum, Sydney Bankstown Airport, Sydney, New South Wales.
    Stored on behalf of the Powerhouse Museum.
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    14 January 2014


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: Tight storage at the Australian Aviation Museum at Bankstown, NSW


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