VH-CKK  Cessna 175                                              (c/n  55522)

                                     

                                           Built as N7222M this 1958 Model 175 was first imported in July 1962 as VH-BBO for a NSW
                                           owner.  It went to Western Australia in 1964 as VH-MSK with Mining Supplies, Kalgoorlie. Two
                                           years later it was traded in on a new Mooney from WA Mooney agents Winterbottom Tractors of
                                           Perth who re-registered it into the DCA allocated VH-CK- series so that Mining Supplies owners
                                           brothers Ted & Neil Rear could have their preferred reg VH-MSK for their new Mooney.  Geoff               
                                           Goodall shot the above photo at  Perth Airport in January 1971.  This fifty year old machine is still
                                           current, and registered to an owner on a station near remote Mullewa, WA (some 100 km east of
                                           Geraldton).