VH-REH (1) Reims/Cessna FR172 Reims Rocket
(c/n FR172-0024)
The dating of this photograph, from the Geoff Goodall
collection, taken at Perth's Jandakot
Airport is
given as 22 December 1969. However, by that time this
aircraft had been re-
registered VH-REF
(q.v.) The aircraft arrived in WA from Rex Aviation
sometime after
it was first
registered on 27 June 1968 and appears, at that time, still to have
been painted
up as
VH-REH. Certainly it was entered into the October 1968 Weekend
News Air Trial
from Jandakot
to Carnarvon as such. Sightings of it following that, however,
reveal that it
was repainted
(or at least using the call-sign of) VH-REF. The circumstance of
it appearing
somewhat later
on as VH-REH again are unexplained.