VH-RSM (2 and 4) DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10
(c/n
C1-0245)
This Chipmunk has been VH-RSM twice in its
career. Formerly WB710 with the RAF, it was
civilianzed in
Ireland in 1956 as EI-AJB. In 1958 it was exported to Australia
for the
Royal Aero
Club of
NSW and
became VH-RSM. It was at Pokolbin, NSW in 1962 in the above
photograph
by
Darryl Connell (via the Geoff Goodall collection). When the club
sold it off in 1962 it went to
J.N.
Tulley who re-registered it in his
wife's initials as VH-WMT. In
1966 it was again
re-regis-
tered as VH-WMG and remained that way for
twenty years. In 1987 it changed hands again and
reverted to its
original Australian
registration of VH-RSM (although not with the RACNSW). Phil
Vabre
took the contemporary photo below at
AAAA Fly-In at Narrandera in April 2006.