VH-PDR  Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee                     (c/n  28-23795)
                              
                                 
      
                                          VH-PDR was one of many aircraft destroyed by Cyclone Tracy at Darwin Airport on Christmas
                                          Eve, 1974.    Fortunately Robert Zweck had photographed it at that locale (above) some ten months
                                          earlier in February 1974, by which time it was four years old, having been registered new to the
                                          Darwin Aero Club in April 1970.   .