VH-GEB Sasin
SA-29
Spraymaster
(c/n B/F/370)
By the mid to late 1960s the
Tiger Moths being used for agricultural spraying and topdressing
were nearing the end of their useful life, so Sasin Aircraft Service of
Goulburn decided to convert
Chipmunks to the role
and contracted with Aerostructures of Bankstown to perform the modifi-
cations.
VH-GEB was the third such conversion and is seen above in
this image from the Geoff
Goodall collection at
Tintinara, SA in December 1967. Its c/n was a
corruption of the DH fuselage
number "B/F/370". It first flew as a SA-29 at
Bankstown on 9 July 1966 and was based on the air-
frame of the
former Tasmanian Aero Club's VH-BSQ.
Ordered by Tim O'Neill's Tonair Pty Ltd,
of Tintinara, SA, it
was painted red and white, and departed for SA on 10 July
1966. Somewhere
around 1972 it was sold in
the USA as N7DW and has since undergone even more mods to the
point where today it is
virtually unrecognizable as a Chipmunk! (see below).
