VH-ASN (4) Piper PA-28R
Cherokee
Arrow
(c/n 28R-30128)
Here's a retractable gear Cherokee
at Mascot in 1970. Photograph by David Carter.
First
registered new
in December 1967, by 1976 it was registered to Ed McKeough, a
businessman,
wartime pilot
and leading light in the Benalla-based Gliding Club of
Victoria. After he died in
1987, the
main entrance road into Benalla airport was renamed Ed McKeough Drive
in his honour
By then VH-ASN was gone after being written off on January 21, 1986
when it failed to get
properly
airborne while attempting to take off from a small rural airstrip at
Merrijig, Victoria.