AAS purchased the bulk of the RNZAF Sunderland force during the late sixties to acquire additional engines (P&W 1830-92s) to help support their fleet of 37 DC-3s, 5 DC-6Bs, 2 Convair 440s and 5 DC-4s in indo China. Most of these aircraft were purchased from Australian operators during the previous decade.

AAS Celebrate Their 40th Anniversary

Forty Years in Aircraft Sales . . . AAS!

TAA’s DC-9-31 VH-TJM is completing its final turnaround for the company. It’s soon to be sold and ferried overseas to new owners. But who was it who organised the sale of the aircraft and are they a local or an overseas concern?

The answer to that is most definitely ‘local’ and in a large number of cases of aircraft that have seen airline service here in Australia and indeed across the world, this particular dealer handled the sale.

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