Historical photos from Essendon.

[Phil Perry]

There's a funny story about that Skyvan's first scheduled flight .( Abbreviated) the tower says" What plane is that? The proud type specialist says "It's a Short Skyvan". To which the Tower somewhat ungraciously replies. "haven't you unpacked it yet?"Good pictures Red. The houses were right up to the edge of Essendon on 3 sides. I often pitied the residents of Strathmore as we ran up four R-2000s at 2230 near the Eastern end of the East west Runway every night before we climbed away low over the peoples rooves aided by the curvature of the earth mainly , at the other end,. in the mid 60's. Nev.

I remember the night when one of my old Instructors from Casey airfield Berwick, Alan Basket ( Speedair Essendon ) had a runaway trim problem with a Partenavia P68 doing night circuits and the aircraft came down on top of one of the houses off the end of the westerly Rwy. . .very sad. He survived as did the student, but the family in the house didn't. . anyway this one has been discussed by me some years back . . . It always worried me a little, taking off from Essendon with all that development around it and this was in the mid 1970s . . .

 

 

[phonetic]

Was student PPL in early 90s often asked the purser on the flight I'm a student PPL they always allowed me up to the flight deck, some of the crew even known the flying school I was learning at

 

 

[GyPySusi]

Rather than create further thread drift on Guess This Aircraft thread, I have moved the drift here, if anyone is interested..When I got my first car over 50 years ago (a Morris Isis), I lived at Pascoe Vale, about 2 miles, or just over 3 km, from the end of Rwy 09. I used to drive over to Essendon and park in the carpark just north of what was the Ansett-ANA finger, now GA parking. I took quite a few photos there (lost a lot of them). I used to save my money so I could afford to ride the helicopter shuttle service to the city and back. Here are a few of the photos I still have.

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Thank you Peter for these.