VH-APV  Victa Airtourer 115                        (c/n  143)

                                             

                                            Rare shot by John Wheatley of Airtourer c/n 143, first registered in October 1965.  Originally flown
                                            by the Bundaberg Aero Club, it crashed at that locale in March 1969 and was restored a year later.
                                            It then moved to the Darwin Aero Club where John's photo above was taken in 1971.   It was one
                                            of the many aircraft destroyed by cyclone Tracy which hit Darwin on Christmas Day, 1974.