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Old 11-08-17, 13:16
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Default Surplus Avro Ansons 5 quid each 1947

What a pity that all of these warbirds ended up rotting away on farms in S.A.

http://www.goodall.com.au/australian...nsonfarms.html
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Old 12-08-17, 02:58
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pretty normal for a Anson , same deal here in Canada, also I remember 2 brothers that bought about 60 Hurricanes took them to there farm and taxied them around until the tanks were dry , then took axes and chopped them up for scrap,
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Old 12-08-17, 03:59
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About 50 miles from me is the town of McGregor MB, where the former Commonwealth Air Training Plan base had been turned into a disposal site. The runways were lined with planes and equipment until about 1950. There are stories of farmers who bought the planes for $10-$20 each, towed them home, used the gas in the tanks in their tractors, sold the engines for about the same price as they paid for the aircraft, then used the fuselage for chicken coops.

My father and his brothers dragged home a Harvard from the local airforce base back in the day. They took a wing off, removed the upper skin, and mounted an outboard motor on it. The "boat" made it out about 300 yards before sinking. They rescued the outboard motor, and the wing ramains in the bottom of the lake. The remainder of the fuselage became a source of target practice at the roundels.

Like so many things, if everyone had the foresight to have saved them, then they would still not be worth much today. The local CATP museum still recovers fuselages from old farmsites in the area.
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Old 13-08-17, 08:19
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There's still an Anson in a farm shed about 40km away from me.
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I had the chance to buy over 50 Pratt and Whitney radial engines for $50 each plus a Merlin .All in cosmolin wrapping ,but had no use for them at the time.
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