VH-MND Piper PA-28-180
Cherokee
(c/n 28-4161)
VH-MND was registered to N Calvert and B Sprague of Birregurra, near
Colac, Victoria,
in May
1968. When David Carter photographed it at
Bankstown in 1976 it was marked
“Eagle
Victoria” although the spacing of the words suggested other words had
been deleted,
such as a
place name. The 1976 register had the owner as a D
Hanson, of Heyfield, in the
Gippsland. In an extraordinary coals to Newcastle
move, –MND was cancelled from the
register in November 2001 as sold in the US . It
became N180BV in April 2002 and was
still
current, at Idaho City, in November 2016 .
Reports that –MND became N80MD
appear
incorrect. The FAA database shows two aircraft have
carried that registration, a
King Air
A100 and a Vans RV-7A.