VH-DPS    Cessna 172H Skyhawk                        (c/n 17256001)

                               

                                     New when registered in October 1967, VH-DPS, the former N2801L, was shipped to Cessna
                                     agent Rex Aviation at Bankstown.    A couple of years had passed when David Carter snapped
                                     it at Bankstown in 1969.      –DPS was lost when, during a low-level bore inspection at Carlton
                                     Hill Station, Western Australia, engine trouble forced it down.  The aircraft flipped and was written
                                     off.    The pilot was uninjured.