RAAF
2OTU & 2SFTS
Justin Taylan 2000
Aircraft History
A20-13, Manufacture Number 11 was
on of the first production Wirraways, making it the 2nd oldest surviving
Wirraway in the world
(the oldest being A20-10 at Moorabbin).
Wartime History
Served with 2OTU after a stint with
2SFTS it even force landed in 1945.
Ownership & Display
In 1960, A20-13
was sold back to CAC
in
May
1960, to be converted
to a Ceres Agricultural aircraft, but was never converted. Then
it was sold to a private individual and then aquired by Australian,
King in the mid 1960's. In late 1967, this Wirraway was donated by King
to the Air Museum of
PNG in exchange for the right to salvage A6M2
Zero 51553. Later, In
1978, Bruce Hoy arranged for it to be transferred from display
at the Civil Aviation Training College to ownership by the PNG Museum. The Wirraway having been donated to the college
by Bill
Chapman in about 1970. Hoy planed to have had it painted
in the colors of A20-137, one of those Wirraways that served
in Rabaul at the
outbreak of war.
References
Thanks to Bruce Hoy and Daniel
Leahy for information on this aircraft.
Wirraway
