VH-RVP (3)    Cessna 172                                       (c/n  46059)          

                                 

                                        This shot is from Barrie Colledge and shows the Royal Victorian Aero Club's first
                                        Cessna.  This machine entered service in Dec 1958.   It was allotted US civil rego
                                        N4159F but that was probably a 'trade plate' rego, and never painted on the aircraft.
                                        It was repainted, soon after this photograph was taken, in the (then) livery of the club,
                                        namely light blue fuselage, dark (navy blue) stripe and day-glo orange fin and rudder,
                                        as seen in Geoff Goodall's photo (below) taken at Parafield in November 1962 when
                                        the aircraft was visiting from Moorabbin..  When sold by the club in March 1963, it
                                        was re-registered VH-CHA and was only removed from the register as late as July of
                                        2006.