VH-ABN (1)    Miles M.11A Whitney Straight                           (c/n  303)

                                                                                                                                            
                                         The above shot was taken at Yass in 1947 and is an enlargement of a photograph showing several
                                         RVAC aircraft visitng at the time. This image is from the  John Hopton collection.  The photo below
                                         was taken by the late Daryl Mackenzie at Essendon, circa 1949, also showing the Whitney Straight
                                         in RVAC livery (sans spats)     Daryl "put some time in" in the aircraft in 1949-50.   In fact, it was
                                         one of the club machines which made the move to Moorabbin in December 1949 when the club
                                         changed its base of operations to that new airport.       At the foot of the page is a photo the Len
                                         Dobbin collection (via the Civil Aviation Historical Society archives) showing the aircraft as G-AENH
                                         when it first arrived from the U.K. in late 1937.  It survived the war years and was sold in New
                                         Zealand in 1951 as  ZK-AXN.