page_title: Auster J/1B Aiglet
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: Auster J/1B Aiglet / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: English: Auster J/1B Aiglet ZK-BWH displayed at the MOTAT Museum in Auckland NZ, painted to represent an RNZAF aircraft
context_page_description: The Auster J/1B Aiglet is a British light civil utility aircraft developed in the 1950s.
context_section_description: The Aiglet was particularly suited to use by agricultural spraying and dusting contractors. The spray bars were installed using supports on the Aiglet's fuselage undersurfaces and the wing struts. Most sales were to Australia and New Zealand but seven were supplied to Aerial Spraying Contractors Ltd of Boston, Lincolnshire. These were flown out to Sudan in autumn 1950 and within a month had rid 17,000 acres (69 km²) of farmland of locusts and other insect pests.
  The agricultural task required operation at very low heights in conditions of extreme heat and inevitably resulted in the loss of many Aiglets in accidents. After withdrawal from crop-spraying use during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the survivors were purchased by aerial photo contractors, aero clubs and private owners. Many of these aircraft were fitted with an extra fuel tank beneath the fuselage, as shown in the adjacent photograph. 
  In 2009, several Aiglets remain in airworthy condition in Australia and New Zealand and three were active in the United Kingdom.
caption: J/1B Aiglet exhibited at MOTAT Auckland New Zealand in February 1992 wearing RNZAF style markings
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