VH-BVD Cessna
190
(c/n 7519)
VH-BVD had just been traded in to distributor Rex Aviation
in Bankstown by Darwin Air Taxis
when Geoff Goodall took
the above shot in January 1964. It had originally been imported,
new,
for Madang
Air Services in New Guinea. The big Cessna was
sold on to A. C. Stackhouse of
Flinders
Island. It has had a couple of owners since then and in
1973 was converted from a 190
to a 195B by removing the
Continental W670 and installing a Jacobs R755
engine. At the time
this was done it was
repainted into full 1954 195B livery as seen in Geoff's shot
immediately below
taken at
the February 1975 Air Show at Berwick, Victoria.
VH-BVD is still
current and is seen
in the nice
contemporary image by Lenn Bayliss
(bottom of the page) landing at Watts
Bridge Air-
port,
Queensland in
2006.