This Autocar was registered in Australia as VH-BYV on 10 October 1955. It was withdrawn from service in February 1982, but restored to the Register in November 1992. It was withdrawn again in September 1997 but restored and re-registered VH-NVY(3) on 16 August 2012. It's painted in a fake scheme representing A11-300, one of two Autocars delivered to the RAN in 1949.

Only two Autocars were delivered to the RAN and operated from 1949 until 1963 (A11-300 and A11-301). This is a former civilian aircraft, built in 1954, that has been restored to represent A11-300.

Part of the Fleet Air Arm Historic Flight, VH-NVY was trucked to Schofields for the air show. An attempt by a member of the team with no flying training to air taxi the Scout to a new location on November 10 resulted in substantial damage. -NVY was cancelled from the register. The MSN used here is from production and UK military serial lists. When registered in 1994 the MSN entered for -NVY was F9490, which is British Army Scout XP889. It was written off in a crash in February 1965.