VH-AFB (3) Cessna 172A
(c/n 47647)
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This Cessna, seen at Bankstown in December 1982 by
Greg Banfield, looks very sharp, although
by that time it
had shed its standard Cessna livery. First registered in
September 1960, it has had
several owners
although today it is still going strong and registered to a company
back at Bankstown.
The interesting shot below, from
the Paul Hockey collection, was taken around January 1983 and
shows -AFB on
Seven Mile Beach (about a two hour drive south of Sydney) on the
occasion of
celebrating 50
years of the flight by Charles Kingsford Smith in the Southern Cross
from Australia
to New
Zealand.
![](VH-AFB%20on%20Beach.jpg)