, Hi everyone,It's been quite a while since I last posted (a lot of shift work hours and overtime and a new garage.) It's good to see this site growing and helping aviation enthusiasts. It's also a while since I got to take any aircraft photos but hopefully I'll get to take some more soon. I am, however on the hunt for any information I can come across regarding two one off Aussie types from the late 1920s.
I'm searching for any info on the Lasco Lascoter and Lasconder. The Lascoter was a single engined 6 seater air taxi and the Lasconder was a tri-motor 8 seater (I think) airliner. The Lasconder looked quite a bit like a large Kreuzer Aircoach. I have some reasonable to good photos on the web (Ed Coates collection and a good direct side on pic of the Lasconder on Wikipedia) but no dimensional information.
Can anyone help me here? JDK, do you have any info about these two almost unknown but historically important aircraft to the Australian aviation scene. The Lasconder apparently came to grief somewhere in Northern Australia (Daly Waters?) and the Lascoter was found in the back of the former Lasco hangar at Coode Island during WW2 by RAAF groundies and carted off to the scrap heap as a pile of useless junk. If only those personnel had known what they were condemning. What would such an aircraft be worth in flying condition today. I think more even than a Genairco Cabin.
Cheers,
Ross.
, G'day Derek,