VH-RIJ   Cessna 172D Skyhawk                                      (c/n  17249792)

                                                                    
 
                                 N2492Y coming out of the crate, VH-RIJ was registered in February 1963.   David Carter’s
                                 photo above shows it at Albion Park, near Wollongong, in 1976 when it was owned by a pilot
                                 from Tomerong near Nowra.  –RIJ was destroyed in a storm at Archerfield in December 1980.