VH-MVF Victa Airtourer 115
(c/n 19)
VH-MVF on the line at Adelaide Airport in
April of 1966. Photo by Geoff Goodall. It was
probably the smallest craft on
the
tarmac at that particular time. The shot immediately below
taken by Ken Oram (via his son, Mike) shows the aircraft in its nice
white and two-tone brown
scheme,
before it was delivered Note day-glo red tips, very common at
the time. VH-MVF
is still current
(registered in NSW) and sports a
striking (some, like myself) might say hideous,
yellow and
blue paint
job. Phil Vabre saw it
thusly adorned in August 2011 (foot of the page).
Put it like
this, I
much prefer its original appearance forty years ago as seen in the
upper and
lower photos. In October 2008 I
received image # 3 below from Peter McCarthy, now MD
of
AMC
Consultants
Pty Ltd of
Melbourne. That's Peter with -MVF when it was with the
Broken
Hill Aero Club in 1971. Following
that (photo # 4) is an
historic shot of -MVF at the
1963 Royal Easter Show in
Sydney, as seen at the time by Greg Banfield.