VH-AFS (4)  Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee D                          (c/n  28-4612)

                          

                              Registered new in March 1969 to Airchart Flying Services of Moorabbin airport, the above shot
                              by David Carter was taken at that locale in December of that year.     .  VH-AFS has been on the
                              register since, despite an accident at Brisbane’s Archerfield airport on July 28, 1988, when it ran into
                              the rudder of parked Douglas DC-3 VH-AGU.      The present owner is farmer Bruce Ovens, of
                             Coorow, in the West Australian wheat belt, who bought it in 1996.