VH-TPF  Mooney M.20E Super 21                  (c/n  623)

                            

                               <>  VH-TPF was first registered on 23 March 1965 to Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, Perth and flown
                                 by Lang Hancock while he was developing the mammoth iron ore mines and shipping ports in the
                                 north of Western Australia.  It was transferred later to his partner's company Wrights Prospecting
                                 Pty Ltd of Perth.  The two images here are both by Geoff Goodall and both were taken at Jandakot. 
                                 They illustrate the Mooney (above) in December 1971 in original livery and (below) in February 1978
                                 wearing a rather striking new paint scheme.  It is still current (2009) and still resident in WA.