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Avro Anson MH120 was built at Yeadon in late 1943 and delivered to the RAAF under the Empire Air Training Scheme. She served with No. 2 Aircraft Park at Bankstown, No. 1 Air Observers School at Evans Head, and later the Advanced Flying and Refresher Unit at Deniliquin. She was sold in 1953 to Greenfield’s Air Taxis for £100. Between 1953 and 1990 she was used as a passenger plane, she won a pylon air race at Moorabbin in 1971. In 1990 she appeared in Half a World Away as Roscoe Turner’s Boeing 247 “Warner Bros Comet,” before going on display at Wangaratta Air World Museum. Bill Reid purchased the aircraft in 2002 and began a full Mk.I Series II restoration. In May 2024 she was acquired by RAF Station Czechoslovakia and shipped to Podhorany Airfield, flying again on 1 June. She now wears the markings of Anson K6183 VX‑B of No. 206 Squadron, lost on 5 September 1939 near the Frisian Islands. The original crew—Pilot Officer Laurie Edwards, LAC John Quilter, Sgt Alexander Heslop, and AC1 Geoffrey Sheffield—engaged a Heinkel He 115 during a reconnaissance sortie before being shot down. Edwards survived, becoming the first RAF officer and first New Zealander taken prisoner of war in WWII.
Avro Anson MH120 was built at Yeadon in late 1943 and delivered to the RAAF under the Empire Air Training Scheme. She served with No. 2 Aircraft Park at Bankstown, No. 1 Air Observers School at Evans Head, and later the Advanced Flying and Refresher Unit at Deniliquin. She was sold in 1953 to Greenfield’s Air Taxis for £100. Between 1953 and 1990 she was used as a passenger plane, she won a pylon air race at Moorabbin in 1971. In 1990 she appeared in Half a World Away as Roscoe Turner’s Boeing 247 “Warner Bros Comet,” before going on display at Wangaratta Air World Museum. Bill Reid purchased the aircraft in 2002 and began a full Mk.I Series II restoration. In May 2024 she was acquired by RAF Station Czechoslovakia and shipped to Podhorany Airfield, flying again on 1 June. She now wears the markings of Anson K6183 VX‑B of No. 206 Squadron, lost on 5 September 1939 near the Frisian Islands. The original crew—Pilot Officer Laurie Edwards, LAC John Quilter, Sgt Alexander Heslop, and AC1 Geoffrey Sheffield—engaged a Heinkel He 115 during a reconnaissance sortie before being shot down. Edwards survived, becoming the first RAF officer and first New Zealander taken prisoner of war in WWII.