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BEAUFORT/A9-141
| Serial #: A9-141 Construction #: - Civil Registration: VH-KTW | Model(s): Beaufort Mk. VII Name: None Status: Restoration Last Info: 2013 |
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History:
Delivered to Royal Australian AF as A9-141, 19??.
- BOC: October 29, 1942.
- SOC: -.
- Damaged in groundloop on takeoff at RAAF Tocumwal, New South Wales, January 12, 1944.
- Transferred to RAAF Nhill, Victoria.
-- Used as an instructional airframe.
Stripped airframe to private owner/farm.
Pearce Dunn/Warbirds Aviation Museum, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 1970-1985.
- Fuselage and parts stored.
Ralph Cusack, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, December 1985-2013.
- Restoration to fly started.
- Utilizing rear fuselage of A9-485.
- Registered as VH-KTW, February 7, 2001.
- To fly as in RAAF scheme as A9-141/KT-W.
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