VH-MIM Piper PA-28-235
Cherokee
(c/n 28-10180)
After very briefly being VH-POW, VH-MIM was registered in June 1964.
The significance of
–MIM is lost in
time but when David Carter photographed it at Bankstown in 1970 it was
not
wearing any markings that might give a clue. In
1976, the aircraft was based at Leitchville,
in northern
Victoria. –MIM suffered two heavy landings which
ultimately saw it removed
from the register . The first was on January 25,
1998, at Numurkah, which caused the nose
wheel to collapse and damaged the
fuselage. Some sources say the aircraft was written off
after this accident but it did
return to the air. –MIM’s second heavy landing was near
Mansfield,
Victoria, on July 31, 2009 causing damage to the fuselage and
wings. It was owned by Janson’s
Concrete
and Haulage of Bairnsdale at the time and this time it was removed from
the register
as destroyed.