VH-PYZ  Piper PA-28-235 Cherokee                        (c/n  28-10632)

                                

                                     Straight 235s were built in 1964 and 1965.  This one was a 1965 model. ex N9040W, and first
                                     registered in Australia in October 1966.  Geoff Goodall's shot above shows it when new in Feb
                                     1967 at Parafield, Adelaide in some sort of celebration of the air mail between Mt. Gambia and
                                     Melbourne.    The photo below is by John Wheatley, and was at Alice Springs in the 1970s.