VH-RSY (1)
Cessna
310B
(c/n 35654)
This machine was
imported by Rex
Aviation into
New Zealand as ZK-REX.
It was a
previously
owned 1958 model having been registered N5454A in the
US. For
its initial
tour of Australia it
became
VH-REX. Then back to N.Z. as ZK-REX
again. Returning to
Australia it became
VH-REI. Then to
VH-RSY when acquired by the Royal Aero Club of NSW as seen above in
this shot
by Greg Banfield, taken at Bankstown on 21 November 1962.
Bob Neate's photo
(below) was taken a
month earlier October 1962 at an air show at Orange, NSW. When
sold
by the
club it became VH-CYO, all this re-registration activity occurring
within a year or so. After
a
scant eight
months a -CYO it became
VH-TTM. I have no idea
what happened to it after that
or how
long it remained
on the register as VH-TTM (which is now a Piper
PA-31 Navajo).
Incidentally,
the
current
VH-RSY is the Ryan STM resurrected from the
remains of VH-AHE.