VH-RVK (3)  DHC-1 Chipmunk T..10                              (c/n C1/0098)                             

                                 

                                       This Chipmunk was not acquired by the Royal Victorian Aero Club until 1960 when most
                                       of the other Chippies had been traded in.  .  It was the former VH-BSJ.  (ex WB658), and
                                       was, in fact, the machine in which my life-long mate Richard J. Maclean and his partner flew
                                       to second place in the 1964 R.M. Ansett Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide. It is seen here
                                       at Parafield, Adelaide, at the end of the Race.     The color shot below was taken at Morwell,
                                       circa 1963, and is from Geoff Goodall (courtesy of the John Willis collection).
                                       On 8 September 1964 -RVK was unfortunately written off in a fiery crash at Bangholme
                                       (near its base at Moorabbin).