In service with NEIAF.
In May 1946 on Java the primary flying course started. In October the advanced training would start, alas no aircraft for this training were available. The Wacketts were available on the surplus market at that time, about 90 aircraft were handed over to a merchant J.T. Brown. About 50 of these aircraft, were sold to ML-KNIL. The Australian unions refused to take care of this load, because of the Dutch- Indies politics, so it took til April 1947 to deliver the aircraft in Batavia. The machines were assembled at airbase Tjililitan, some of them were used for spare parts, so in the end no more then thirty aircraft were used operationally.
The first seven aircraft were ready in August 1947. In September fourteen aircraft were ready for use. Because the long period of storage the aircraft were in rather poor condition and the Technical Service had lots of trouble to keep the Wackets up and running. Because of cooling problems of the engines, the cowling was soon removed.
The performance of, for instance, the Tiger Moth was better than the performance of the Wackett. The CA-6 was quite save, as just three of them were written of because of accidents.
May 20, 1948 an aircraft crashed in the mountains during a blind flying training, in August a second aircraft was written of and in February 1949 a Wackett crashed at Kalidjati.
After Juyi 1949 no further information is available, it is possible the aircraft were handed over to the AURI (the Indonesian air force), but the AURI probably didn't use the Wackets.
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