VH-DTR   Cessna 150H                                         (c/n  15068175)

                                  

                                        VH-DTR was delivered to the Canberra Aero Club in November 1969.    By the mid 1970s i
                                        had been sold to a private owner in Sydney’s western suburbs and was photographed by David
                                        Carter tucked away in a corner of Schofields aerodrome in 1978.     The 22-year-old Cessna
                                        was exported in January 1991 to the Royal Thai Air Force  which gave it the military serial
                                        Ph1-3/34 and based it at Don Muang International Airport.    In reality the aging Cessna was
                                        used by members of the air force’s flying association, a flying club, and not the military.
                                        It  reverted to civil markings, as HS-AFB, in 2005 but remained at Don Muang until it was with-
                                        drawn from use in 2009. After several years parked at the base, it was cleaned up and placed on
                                        display in RTAF roundels and marked “RTAF Flying Association”.   Current location not known.

                                        Below:  Correspondent Mark Alamangos indicates that his first flight lessons were on -DTR.
                                                     Mark travels to the Philippines periodically to have models made by a company called
                                                     Replicas.  And a superb job they do too.  He had this rendition of -DTR made recently
                                                     (2019),  although he points out that he has dozens of other models of similar ilk in his
                                                     collection!