VH-ROI Cessna 150F
(c/n 15062207)
VH-ROI was first registered on 25 Feb 1966 to Rex Aviation and
uncrated at Bankstown, in
factory
green, white and metallic scheme. On 1st March it was
flown to Wagga NSW where
it was displayed in the David Jones department store as a sales
promotion. It then returned to
Bankstown where it was parked until July 1966 when ferried to Jandakot
for WA Cessna agents
Simpson
Aviation Pty Ltd for their flying school. It was used by
Radio Station 6KY-BP for
for
Beach Patrol shark spotting off the coast of Western Australia in the
late 19060s. Live broad-
casts were
transmitted every each afternoon between the hours of 1.30 and
4.30. When not on
shark patrol it was used by Simpsons as a regular
trainer. Doug Cornwall, who submitted the
image below advises "I flew this
aircraft every afternoon (in 1967) for about 4
months. My pax
was a DJ
and we conducted the "drive" program from the air whilst doing shark
patrols........".
In December 1968
-ROI was sold to the Royal Aero Club of WA at Jandakot, later going on
to
other
owners, all in WA. Geoff Goodall's photo (above) was
taken at Exmouth, WA in October
1974
when the craft was still with the RAeCWA. It
was struck-off the Civil Register in March
1980 at the
then owner's request. At the foot of the page is a photo of the
little 150 by Merv
Prime taken at
Jandakot in 1967 when owned by Simpson Aviation
.
