VH-RVN (1)  de havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth                              (c/n  DHA809)

                                    

                                           Here's -RVN right after its civilianization from A17-659 at Moorabbin in `1955.  It had
                                           its Royal Vic stripes, although the club badge had yet to be applied..  (It has it on Bob
                                           Neate's shot below taken at Warracknabeal in 1961).  Shortly after Bob's picture was
                                           taken it was sold off and reregistered VH-BEQ. to a private owner in Melbourne.
                                           It was then sold in the USA (in 1970) and given the somewhat 'period' registration of
                                           N14659.  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                                           millennium, but appears (mid 2008) to be no longer current.