ED COATES MEMORIAL COLLECTION
No. 1188. Commonwealth CA-16 Wirraway (Challenger) III (VH-SSF c/n 1144)
Photographed at Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia, 1955, by Ed Coates
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Remarks by Ed Coates: "Used for crop dusting. The Wirraway was a North American NA-16 (Texan forerunner) built under license in VH-land. Very common in Aussie. Delivered to the RAAF as A20-692. To civil register as VH-SSF on November 6, 1954. Sold to Commonwealth on October 4, 1956 for conversion to CA-28 Ceres C, became CA28-13." |