VH-TCN      Mooney M.20E Super 21                                 (c/n  527)

                                    

                                         VH-TCN was registered in January 1965 having been N79864.   David Carter’s photo above
                                         was taken at Bankstown in 1969.  -TCN was destroyed in a crash near Roma, Queensland,
                                         on August 11, 1996.    The pilot, who had no night training nor an instrument rating was caught
                                         after dark short of his destination.      In “black hole” conditions the pilot, from Longreach, flew
                                         into the ground killing himself and his passenger.