I regret to advise that Australian DC-3 historian, Allan Bovelt passed away in Sydney recently. Al never graduated to cyberspace so his prolific letters will be sadly missed by his many correspondents worldwide. Our website listing extant DC-3s in Australia, which is based on Al’s research, will be dedicated in his memory.
RIP Al
By: Ron Cuskelly - 16th November 2007 at 02:04
Funeral for Allan Bovelt
To all Allan’s friends and relatives, please be advised that details of his funeral are as below :
Date : Monday, November 19, 2007
Location : The *Main Crematorium, West Chapel, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia
Time : 3.30pm
Funeral Service : Euro Funerals (who are kindly offering their service free of charge)
* There are 2 Crematoriums at Rookwood. One is the Catholic Crematorium, the other is known as the Main Crematorium. The latter is where Allan’s funeral will take place.
Please pass on these details to any known friend of Allan’s or anyone from the aviation fraternity interested in attending.
Most of you will know that with the permission of Discovery Air Tours and Chief Pilot Jack Curtis, I intended to scatter Allan’s ashes from a DC3 shortly after the funeral.
Regretfully the aircraft in question, VH-DNA, blew an engine in flight while on parachute dropping operations. However, Rebecca, a grand niece of Allan’s has promised to take care of his ashes until such time as VH-DNA is repaired.
Kind regards and hope to see you all at the funeral. I will post a tribute to Allan on the Museum web site (www.aamb.com.au) later today.
Trevor Dean
Curator
Australian Aviation Museum
http://www.aamb.com.au
By: Coert Munk - 20th June 2007 at 06:23
Sad loss indeed, Ron. Al had a very detailed knowledge of the DC-3s / C-47s Down Under and was a welcome source to research the Daks that have flown in teh Netherlands East Indies.
Al will be sadly missed.
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June 20, 2007 at 2:25 am