Registration Markings - VH-SEX


For many years the Department kept a list of 'naughty' registrations which they did not allow to be used. With the advent of the 1960's a certain liberalisation occurred, but as the article below from the Melbourne Herald of 22 November 1969 illustrates, some registrations were still just too much for conservative country Australia!


 
VH-SEX

The photo above shows VH-SEX in January 1967. It had arrived in Sydney on delivery as N7917Y on 14 May 1966, and was registered as VH-SEX on 1 September 1966 to Aircraft Rentals Pty Ltd, Sydney.
Tamair failed in their bid to re-register their aircraft, as it is still on the Register as VH-SEX as of October 2014, now based in Warwick, Qld.

(Article: Herald, 22 Nov 1969 - CAHS collection; photo-Geoff Goodall)

 

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