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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 24 Argus / C-61 Forwarder / C-68 / GK / J2K
    Latest Model:Argus II
    Last Military Serial:HB600 RAF
    Construction Number:0837
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-AUN
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Argus II sn HB600 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Graham Orphan, Omaka, NZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UC-61A-FA by Fairchild at Hagerstown, MD, USA.

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-14873 as a UC-61A-FA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HB600 as a Argus II.

    From 15 May 1947 to 27 September 1954

    To Leslie Dickinson Hawthorn, Farnham, Surrey with new c/r G-AJSG.

    1948


    Photographer: Dave Freeman
    Notes: G-AJSG at Shoreham, England in 1948.

    10 January 1955

    To David Gray and Company, Perth, WA with new c/r VH-DDG.

    30 May 1958


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall Collection
    Notes: At Maylands, WA.

    August 1958

    To E. M. Fitzgerald, Carnarvon/Berrinvale Grazing Co, with new c/r VH-EMF.

    15 March 1959

    To B. R. Galt, Sydney, NSW with new c/r VH-EMP.

    15 February 1960

    To E. Rouse, G. Wallace, M. Myers, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-EMP.

    1963


    Photographer: Neil Follett
    Notes: Dropping skydivers at Packenham Vic 1963

    5 April 1967

    To John V. McDonald, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-EMP.

    18 October 1973

    Withdrawn from use.

    2000

    After 35 years of storage - advertised for sale by: Frank McDonald, Healesville Vic.

    By 2001

    To David Marwick and Joanna Carson, Blenheim NZ.
    VH-EMP stripped fuselage standing on its gear in hangar at Omaka airport in NZ.

    2009

    To Graham Orphan, Omaka, NZ.

    To Graham Orphan, Omaka, NZ with new c/r ZK-AUN.

    19 April 2019


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Omaka, New Zealand
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