GippsAero GA8 Airvan Walkaround Gallery
GippsAero GA8 Airvan VH-PWF Marops Avalon 2007
The Airvan is one of the real feelgood stories of Australian aviation. Gippsland Aeronautics, a well established ag-plane manufacturer and repairer saw the need for an 8-seat utility plane and filled the gap. Using their experience of high-lift / low-speed aerodynamics from the agricultural aviation field, they designed a new utility aircraft around their existing and proven wing and engine combination. The result is world-wide sales and certification and even sales into the para-military US Civil Air Patrol (CAP). It is another case of if it looks good, it is good. It's a handsome aircraft with pleasing proportions. This particular airframe, VH-PWF, appeared at two consecutive Avalon airshows in different schemes. In 2005 it bore USAF Civil Air Patrol markings, and in 2007 these MAROP markings. as at the start of 2019, the rgistration does not appear in the CASA reg listings, so it may have gone to the US.
