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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.

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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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