VH-UEZ  DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10             (c/n  C1/0353)

                              

                                  VH-UEZ was the former Royal Aero Club of South Australia's VH-BWC, receiving its
                                  new identity in January of 1964.  It is still in the club's livery.  Geoff Goodall took this shot
                                  of it at that time whilst the Gipsy Major was off undergoing a major overhaul.  This Chippie
                                  had come onto the Australian civil register in July of 1957 having been demobbed from the
                                  RAF where it had served as WG289.  It suffered a crash at Bulloo Downs Station, WA
                                  on 18 September 1966 when the engine lost power.   It was sold abroad sometime after
                                  that and appeared on the US civil register in 1981 as N1350U.   It is still currently register-
                                  ed but has been modified so much that its resemblance to a Chipmunk is now rather super-
                                  ficial (Lycoming engine, squared fin and rudder, tailplane et al).   To that end it is now
                                  registered in the experimental category, and carres the somewhat spurious c/n of 248.