VH-RSJ (1)  DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10                          (c/n C1-0117)

                                   

                                       This RACNSW Chippie has Illawara Flying Club stripes on the rudder.. Ex WB669, it was orig-
                                       inally civlianized for Gertrude McKenzie's Flying School as VH-GMD.      In November 1958 it
                                       was re-registered VH-BAX for the South Coast Aero Club at Albion Park, Wollongong, NSW
                                       and then in 1961 went to the Royal Aero Club of NSW as VH-RSJ.  The Rodney Brown collection
                                       photo above shows it at Bankstown with the rally number '26'.   On 17 June 1963 a student pilot
                                       was practicing solo spins in -RSJ when it and crashed near Derwent and Great Northern Roads
                                       in Bringelly, NSW.   It appeared to go into a flat spin and sadly, the young pilot, Michael Nordsvan,
                                       was killed.

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