David Carter photographed VH-PDI (rego enlargement below) at Mascot in
1970 on delivery
to
Helicopter Transport at Lae, PNG, who had registered it in July that
year. The registration
was cancelled in August
1972, officially as sold in France. However it turned up
in Rhodesia
in defiance of UN sanctions and
became serial 5713 with its air force. The helicopter survived
the civil war to become part
of the new Zimbabwe Air Force, which still operated Alouette IIIs
n
2016. It is not known if c/n 1738 was one of them.