VH-RKT  Cessna 172G Skyhawk                                      (c/n  17254222)

                                

                                      Originally registered VH-DIV from August to December 1966, this Skyhawk became
                                      VH-RKT when bought by the Rockhampton Aero Club.   David Carter’s photo above
                                      shows it at Bathurst on October 3, 1971 with a tiny aero club badge on the fin.  In the
                                      1976 register was privately owned and based at Blackall, in central west Queensland.
                                      It was still in Queensland in November 2016 and registered to a grazier from Bollon,
                                      in the state’s south-west.