VH-RVV (1) DHC-1 Chipmunk
T.10
(c/n C1/0484)
Above is another of
Barrie Colledge's beautiful color shots of a RVAC Chipmunk, this one at
Benalla. Victoria in July 1957. Below is a shot by
John
Hopton from the Rodney W. Brown
collection (Moorabbin,
circa 1960), showing VH-RVV still in the old
livery whilst the rest of the
Chipmunk fleet appear
to have been repainted. It was eventually repainted in the
revised scheme
as seen in the image
below taken by
Geoff Goodall, also at Moorabbin, in May of 1962.
VH-RVV crashed
close to Moorabbin Airport on
6 February 1965 and was ostensibly written
off. However,
bits and pieces of it were sighted at various places
including Tocumwal,
NSW
as late as 2002, and
appear to have been used in
making up the whole airframe of
currently
registered VH-MMR.