VH-RTK Britten-Norman BN-2A-6
Islander
(c/n 194)
VH-RTK was originally G-AYHK (test flown as G-51-194) and
first registered in Australia on
27 November 1970 (making it just
within the date window for showing in this collection). Geoff
Goodall's shot shows
it in the hangar at Perth on 6 December 1970, having just joined the
Murchison
Air Services
fleet. . Barely a month later it was overturned and suffered
damage during a cyclone at
Roebourne,
WA and was stricken from the registered. In the photo below, also
from Geoff, and
taken at Roebourne in January 1971, it can be seen to be recoverable
and, the Islander was, in fact
rebuilt and then
sold to PNG as P2-RTK (later P2-ISN).