Fred48

I had VH-EYK, which went to Archerfield on a trailer via Quilpie, where we lived about 120 miles out. Nose wheel locked to one side on heavy ground and as the speed dropped off the machine rolled and became a bit smaller in size pretty quickly. I loved it as a mustering tool, still not a chopper but did good work.

I put up about 400 hours in a J2 mustering in Western Queensland, Australia in 1974 for a couple of years. Hawker De Havilland of Sydney imported about 8 of these machines to Australia .