Dates

Event

Circa 1943

Constructed as a Beaufighter IC.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A19-43.

Transferred to 31 Squadron.
Flew combat in Southwest Pacific.

October 1947

To K Oldfield, Nhill.

1971

To Australian Aircraft Restoration Group.

January 1971

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: A19-43 had ended its RAAF days as Instructional Airframe No.3 at RAAF Station Nhill,Victoria State, Australia and was sold off by Disposals after the war to local farmer Keith Oldfield who broke it up for useful parts

10 January 1971

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: The Moorabbin Air Museum convoy of sections of Beaufighter A19-43 at Horsham Vic on the way from Nhill to Melbourne

November 1972

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: seen on the 1972 visit was this fuselage of RAAF Bristol Beaufighter A19-43, from a farm at Nhill, Victoria.15 years later this and other Beaufighter sections were sold for restoration for the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB Ohio, where it is displayed today representing USAAF 415th Night Fighter Squadron Beaufighter KV912 in the Mediterranean Theatre

1987

To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
This and other Beaufighter sections were purchased for restoration.
View the Location Dossier

1998

Placed on display.
Marked as aircraft flown by Capt. Harold Augspurger, commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, based in Italy, who shot down a Heinkel He.111 carrying staff officers in September 1944.

4 December 2006

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

6 May 2008

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

10 September 2014

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield