Aircraft at Work
Documentary (1966)
Production:
Malcom Otton (Productor)
Daniel Crombie (Director)
Bruce Hillyard (Photographer)
Barry Bowden (Sound Engineer)
Documentaty on air transport in Australia.
Also from this series:
Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
Boeing 727-76
Registration VH-TJA, c/n 18741. Delivered new to TAA on October 1964 with earlier livery The Nation's Jetline. Sold to International Air Leases on October 1976, then entered service with Air Florida on December of the same year, and registered N40AF in 1977. Finally sold to Continental Airlines in July 1977 in where she serves until 1991, stored at Mojave and scrapped in 1993.
In the background, we can guess the C-47 Skytrain of East West Airlines, listed further.
Vickers 756D Viscount
Unidentified registration for this Viscount in The Nation's Jetline TAA's livery. In the background the 727-76 listed above is launched for taking off.
Lawrence Hargrave Box-Kite glider
Hargrave's inventions box kite (1893), was applied to gliders, and in October 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont used the box-kite principle in his aeroplane to make his first flight. Until 1909 the box-kite aeroplane was the usual type in Europe.
Santos Dumont 14-bis (model)
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Bristol Boxkite
The 1st aircraft of the company, based on the Farman HF.3.
Keystone LB-7
It seems powered by the Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet rather than the Wright Cyclone, therefore listed as LB-7
Boeing F4B
Boeing F4B performing a bombing run already seen in Les bleus du ciel.
De Havilland DH60X Moth
Registration VH-UGJ, c/n 3. Ex G-AUGJ. Entered service on August 1929 in Australian Aero Club, then Aero Club of New South Wales later renamed Royal Aero Club of New South Wales. Crashed in October 1940.
Unidentified Aircraft
US aircraft I guess, not found yet. Are the 2 in the foreground the same airplanes?
Vickers F.B.27A Vimy II
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Avro 504J
Two Avro 504J of Major Norman Brearley who founded Western Australian Airways.
Bristol 28 Coupé Tourer
Registration G-AUDH, c/n 6115 on the left, and G-AUDG, c/n 6111 on the right. Both delivered to Western Australian Airways on November 1921.G-AUDH crashed Port Hedland 15.7.24. Parts were used to build G-AUDZ.Unidentified Aircraft in the background.
De Havilland DH50A
On the left.
Unidentified Aircraft flying on the right.
Fokker F.VIIb/3M
Registration 1985, G-AUSU, VH-USU, c/n 4954.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
De Havilland DH61 Giant Moth
De Havilland DH86B Express
Registration VH-UYU, serial n° 2359.
Vickers 747 Viscount
Too fast on landing phase for recognising the registration.
Boeing 727-76
Boarding on VH-TJ...
Desembarkation from another VH-TJ...
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Either VH-INJ, VH-INK, VH-INM. Converted from genuine post war DC-4-1009 airframes in 1965. There were the last Carvairs produced on a total of 21.
Rolamat floor system designed to handle seven of the internationial 108"x88" freight pallets.
Boeing 707-138B
Wearing the earlier livery V-Jet Australian's Overseas Airline.
Boeing 707-338C
Registration VH-EBN, c/n 18808/404 in the earlier livery V-Jet Australian's Overseas Airline. Delivered on February 1965. Sold to Singapore Airlines in 1974 as 9V-BFW. Sold to Internaltional Air Lease on April 1981 registered N707GB and painted in Arrow Air livery. Leased to TAMPA Colombia as HK-3030X named El Arriero in 1983, then sold to Skymaster Airlines, Brazil in 1998 as PT-WSZ.
Piper PA-23 Apache & Fokker F27-200 Friendship
Reg. VH-xAx... Piper PA-23 Apache.
On the right, two Fokker Friendship from Airlines of New South Wales and fin tail of a Lockheed L-188A Electra of Ansett ANA.
Boeing 727-77
Lockheed L-188A Electra
From TAA with livery The Nation's Jetline.
Boeing 727-76 & Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain
Same VH-TJA already listed above. On the left, C-47 Skytrain of East West Airlines.
Two Boeing 727-76.
Douglas DC-6
Cessna 210A
From Connellan Airways , renamed later as Connair.
De Havilland DH104 Dove 5
Registration VH-DHK, c/n D4508.
Douglas C-47A-1-DK Skytrain
Registration VH-MAE, c/n 11917. Ex USAAF built in 1943, modified as Dakota III for RAF in 1944. Bought by Mandated Airlines Ltd in 1948 and modified as DC-3 with 28 seats, registered VH-BFV, then VH-MAE in 1952. Written off from use in 1972 after a crash when landind at Wapenamanda, Papua New-Guinea.
Victa Airtourer 115
Registration VH-MRK, c/n 108. Built in 1965. The model became AESL Airtourer, built in New Zealand from 1966 to 1973, after the shut-down of production in Australia.
Various aircraft
1- Beechcraft S35 Bonanza Registration VH-TOB, c/n D-7827.
2- Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
3- Unidentified Aircraft
4- Piper PA-28 Cherokee
5- Piper PA-24-260 Comanche
6- Cessna Series 100/200
7- Piper PA-28 Cherokee
Cessna 172E Skyhawk
Registration VH-DIR, c/n 17250674. Delivered in 1963.
Unidentified Aircraft
Boeing 707-338C
Wearing earlier livery V-Jet Australian's Overseas Airline.
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See also
- Australian Commonwealth Film Unit
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
- Avro 504
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 727
- Boeing P-12
- Bristol Boxkite
- Cessna
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- De Havilland DH50
- De Havilland DH60 Moth
- De Havilland DH86 Express
- De Havilland DH104 Dove
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Douglas DC-6
- Fokker F.VII
- Fokker F27 Friendship
- Keystone B/LB Bomber Family
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Piper PA-23
- Piper PA-24 Comanche
- Piper PA-28
- Santos Dumont 14-bis
- Vickers Vimy
- Vickers Viscount
- Ansett-ANA
- Ansett-MAL
- Connellan Airways
- Qantas
- Qantas Empire Airways
- Trans Australia Airlines