ED COATES MEMORIAL COLLECTION
No. 1989. de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Mk.21 (VH-ROG c/n C1/0435)
Photographed at Moorabbin Airport, Victoria, Australia, 1956, by Ed Coates

de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Mk.21

Remarks by Ed Coates: "Originally assigned the registration VH-BVH, this marking was not taken upand the aircraft became VH-ROG. This aircraft had been delivered to the Royal Aero Club of Western Australia in 1952 and bears the initial of R.O. Giles a long time secretary of the Club, both pre and post-war. It crashed at Baker's Hill, Western Australia, in 1959. However, the remains were spotted in a totally different livery at Jandakot as late as August of 1968."

Read the type remarks on page 11451."


Created December 9, 2002