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2 unusual facts about Max Hazelton


Max Hazelton

With support from his mother he purchased his first aircraft, an Auster Aiglet Trainer for 2,500 pounds.

In October 1954 he crashed his plane on a flight from Bankstown Airport in heavy rain near Oberon, but escaped uninjured.


Hazelton Airlines

Founded in 1953 by Max Hazelton with a single Auster Aiglet aircraft offering charter services from a farm near Toogong, New South Wales, the fledgeling organisation was in 1959 relocated to Cudal (near Orange) in NSW.


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