VH-MEJ  Piper PA-22-108 Colt                                      (c/n  22-8929)

                                    
                                            
                                          Formerly the Civil Flying School's VH-CFC this Colt was reregistered -MEJ in April 1963
                                          to Millard O’Sullivan Aviation of Perth    . It was damaged at Ballarat on October 8, 1972
                                          and was off the register until June 1975.      Rebuilt, it was on the register again when David
                                          Carter took the above shot at Coldstream, Victoria, in November 1978. Converting PA-22s
                                          to taildraggers was all the rage in Australia in the 1980s and 90s and this one was metamorph-
                                          osed by Barry Manktelow at Toowoomba in 1994.        In April 1995, the Colt was sold in
                                          New Zealand as ZK-MEJ.    Despite suffering an accident at Manawatu on August 1, 2015,
                                          it remained current to a Palmerston North owner in October 2016.