ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28390
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| Date: | Wednesday 22 March 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro 652A Anson C.19 |
| Owner/operator: | Brain & Brown Airfreighters |
| Registration: | VH-BIX |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 7 miles N of Lancelin, WA -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Maylands, Perth, Western Australia |
| Perth Jandakot (JAD/YPJT), Western Australia | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The second VH-BIX was of two Avro C.19s operated by RAAF (ex VM375) from Mallala SA on passenger courier services to the Woomera Rocket Range from 1947. It was retired from the RAAF in October 1955, and sold to Robert G. Carswell on 15 March 1957 for his Carsair Air Services just established at Port Morseby, New Guinea. The civilianized Avro received its CofA on 21 May 1957 as (somewhat appropriately) VH-BIX, with seating for up to 13 passengers: 7 European seats and seating for 6 natives. Carsair flew charters and scheduled services with a mixed fleet of Ansons, a Lockheed 12A and a Beech 17.
In October 1960 Bob Carswell flew VH-BIX to Perth, WA, where it was leased to Air Culture, a local agricultural company who had picked up a contract to fly crayfish from coastal airstrips at fishing settlements to Perth for Ross Fisheries.
The Anson C.XIX was painted up with the slogan "Crayfish transporter - we bring them back alive" and flew into barely adequate sandy airstrips until 22 March 1961, when an engine failure caused a forced landing in low scrub 7 miles north of Lancelin, Western Australia. The pilot was Bill Boulden, Managing Director of Air Culture. He and two passengers were unhurt but the expensive load of live crayfish (valued at £600 at 1961 prices) was lost, and the aircraft was damaged and later trucked to Perth.
Bob Carswell flew his Lockheed 12A VH-ASG across from Brisbane to replace the Avro on the crayfish run, and the Avro wreck was purchased from the insurance company by Brain & Brown Airfreighters at Moorabbin, who removed the metal mainplane and tailplane, which were trucked to Melbourne for their planned second Anson Mk.1 metal conversion, which in the event was never started. (See VH-BAF).
Registration VH-BIX cancelled 28 March 1962. Fuselage scrapped Maylands (last noted intact 20 May 1963).
Sources:
1. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austb/VH-BIX2.html
2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1961/archives/crash-of-an-avro-652-anson-in-australia-5/]
3. http://www.adf-gallery.com.au//2a4.shtml
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20110909125321/http://aussiemodeller.com.au:80/pages/Gallery/Aircraft/A4_Anson.html
5. http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/anson-late/anson-late.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 16-Mar-2012 07:11 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2014 00:18 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2014 20:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 23-Sep-2017 21:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 09-Apr-2022 10:36 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 07-Jun-2022 20:07 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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