sold TVQ-0 to a joint venture between petrol company Ampol and Sydney radio station 2SM. Personal life He married twice. From his first marriage, to Grace, he had two sons, John and Robert (Bob). After their divorce, Grace took the boys to live in the USA. He married Joan Adams in 1944 and they adopted three daughters, Jane, Janet and Jill. The new family lived on the Ansett estate at Mount Eliza. From the early 1960s Ansett travelled to and from the office by helicopter each day, a remarkable thing to do in the days when few Australian CEOs even had chauffeured cars. Bob Ansett returned from the US in the 1960s to work for his dad; and eventually, after his dad denied him work, purchased an established hire car company, Budget Rent a Car. However, Reg Ansett never acknowledged his son's presence in Australia. In later years they were to become bitter business rivals as Ansett Transport Industries owned a competing company, Avis, which at the time held a monopoly on hire car services at Australian airports. The ABC documentary, Dynasties: The Ansett Family, revealed that the family of Lady Joan Ansett – who died in 2003 – was still in legal turmoil. Death Ansett fell ill several months before his death, and returned home from the Peninsula Private Hospital at Frankston to spend Christmas with his family. First indications of the seriousness of his illness came at the annual meeting of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd in November when, for the first time in 44 years, he failed to attend and give his chairman's address. He died on 23 December 1981 at his personal estate in Mount Eliza. Legacy The Ansett House at Peninsula Grammar was named after Sir Reginald Ansett and continues to hold his name as of 2022. References Further reading Adrian Magee, Reg Ansett: Aviation Tycoon, Heinemann Port Melbourne, 1997 Jon Davison and Tom Allibone, Beneath Southern Skies: Celebrating 100 Years of Australian Aviation Lothian Books South Melbourne 2003 Australian Geographic, The Australian Encyclopædia 6th edition, Terrey Hills, 1996 articles on Sir Reginald Myles Ansett and Ansett Australia. External links Ansett, Sir Reginald Myles (Reg) (1909–1981) ADB Online Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum The Ansett Family on ABC TV's Dynasties Synopsis Timeline Full Episode Transcript The Rise of Civil Aviation to 1970 by Australian Heritage Commission Ansett 17 February 1936 – 5 March 2002 History "Some