
VH-RVN
c/n DHA809
RAAF
serial: A17-659 (Built as
DX752 for South Africa)
Fate:
Re-registered VH-BEQ in
1961 to a private owner in Melbourne.
It was then sold in the
USA (in 1970) and given the somewhat 'period' registration of
N14659.
Amazingly, it was still on the US Civil Register, based in
Arkansas, well into the
new millennium,
but
appears (mid 2008) to be no longer current.
The shot below by Bob Neate, taken at
Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1961 shows it just before
it became
VH-BEQ. . In my shot above, it had just had a paint job and the RVAC
badge had
yet to be re-applied.
