On a recent visit to Spanhoe this Auster, painted as NX534 and alias G-BUDL, was being weighed, having been out of the air for nearly 40 years.
It is pictured in the latest issue of FlyPast magazine, having evidently since flown again.
According to an Air-Britain monograph I have, which was published in 1965, the c/n is given as 274 and previous military identity MZ138, and as this is at odds with the information on GINFO and there do not seem to have been many Austers from the NX serial range civilianised as Mark 3s, can anyone account for the apparent discrepancy?
Wicked Willip :diablo:
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th August 2008 at 07:03
NX534
The confusion arises because both c/n 458 and c/n 271 were registered PH-POL at some stage. PH-POL (1) c/n 271 was cancelled following a landing accident in 1955 and it was replaced by another ex Netherlands military Auster III (c/n 458) PH-POL (2) later the same year.
Austers in the NX serial range served in many theatres of war and several were transferred to the air forces of the Netherlands, Greece and Australia.
Another Netherlands Auster currently in an advanced stage of restoration is NX537 c/n 462 (PH-NIN). I am not aware of any others in the range that are extant but one never knows what might emerge one day!
By: wieesso - 10th August 2008 at 06:44
They mention NX534 was c/n 458
http://www.auster.ukf.net/p04.htm
Later MZ138 and NX534 both were registered as PH-POL
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