The cover of issue #51 of the ASD, from July 1967, shows DCA's Fokker F.27 Friendship VH-CAT at Rabaul's old airport. As the Digest had it: "The active volcano 'Matupi' forms an unusual backdrop for a Departmental Fokker Friendship as it is serviced at Rabaul, New Britain, in the course of a regular survey flight to check the operation of radio navigational aids and airways facilities. The volcano lies directly in line with Rabaul's single runway, only a mile from its south-eastern end."

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