VH-BNS (2) Cessna 172C
Skyhawk
(c/n 49180)
Like so many other
former Royal Newcastle Aero Club, VH-BNS was a minimum change re-
registration to allow the club to retain the VH-RN* block for its own
use. -RNS became -BNS
in June 1966. However, its old
registration would languish unused until 1978 when it was applied
to a Rockwell Commander 114
based far from Newcastle at Coldstream, near Melbourne. When
David Carter photographed –BNS at Mascot on October 24, 1970, it
was operated by Lease
and Industrial
Finance. In June 2016 it was still current to an
owner at Quirindi, NSW.