Register Review

Jeff Trappertt’s Ryan RYS is the first ST-M model to be seen in Australia although there have been 24 of the later ST-M2s registered in this country with five still currently shown on the register and two active in New Zealand.

Claude Ryan designed the ST Sport Trainer during 1933. It featured two open cockpits in tandem with a steel and aluminiumalloy fuselage. The wings were made of a composite of wood, steel and aluminium and were braced with wires to the upper fuselage and fixed conventional undercarriage.

Only five STs were built before the ST-A (A = Aerobatic) was developed with a more powerful engine. The Guatemalan air force ordered two batches of six ST‑As during 1938, but wanted a still more powerful engine so 12 ST-A Specials were built fitted with 150hp (110kW) Menasco C4S engines.

The first batch of six aircraft were not fitted with armament, but the second batch were fitted with small capacity guns mounted on the front fuselage for training purposes.

All 12 of these aircraft were later converted to ST-M (M = Military) models and returned to the US.

Jeff’s aircraft is one of the second batch of six which included the fuselage-mounted guns. The Ryan is presently under long-term rebuild and when completed will be painted in its original Guatemalan air force colours.

Nine aircraft are listed in the Deletions section this issue with about half of those being exported.

Cessna 152 Aerobat CYI is now in Fiji, Bombardier Global Express DNK has gone to the Cayman Islands and Gippsland Airvan EKS is now in the US flying as N231AV and registered to a trustee of the Bank of Utah at Salt Lake City. Also in the US is Business Aviation Solutions’ Cessna Citation Sovereign RCA which has returned to Cessna at Wichita, Kansas and is marked as N712TX, while Tude’s Choppers’ Bell 407 NQH is now in PNG.

Two new types are shown in this month’s New Allocations although both have a connection to existing types flying in Australia.

Don Brown’s Beach Hawk MRD is a ground-up rebuild of his Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar also registered MRD. Don acquired the Auster during June 1982 but took it out of the air in 1995 as the fuselage was showing signs of corrosion. He decided to rebuild the wings and tail as per the original Auster but designed and built a completely new fuselage incorporating stronger wing, tail and undercarriage mounting points. Float attachment points have also been added although Don has no plans to fit floats at this stage. The new fuselage now accommodates two with a small cargo area behind the seats rather than four seats from the original Auster. The old Blackburn Cirrus Major III engine has been replaced with a 200hp (150kW) Lycoming driving a constant-speed propeller giving a 120kt cruise speed, about 30kt faster than the Auster. The new aircraft, registered in the experimental category, is finished in basic silver and Don reports that it’s a delight to fly.

Jeff Trappertt’s Ryan RYS is the first ST-M model to be seen in Australia although there have been 24 of the later ST-M2s registered in this country with five still currently shown on the register and two active in New Zealand.

Claude Ryan designed the ST Sport Trainer during 1933. It featured two open cockpits in tandem with a steel and aluminium Skyfox Gazelle EGP and Jabiru J230 INO are now on the RA-Aus register and Air National Australia’s Global Express LEP has been reregistered LZP. Following the sad death of warbird restorer Murray Griffiths, his Hawker Fury SFY has been deregistered and noted as withdrawn from use (refer Warbirds this issue for more details).

Following up on some recent exports, Gippsland Airvan BCO, which was shown in the June Deletions, is now known to have become C-GAEO with Aviation Unlimited at Oshawa in Ontario, Canada, while HNZ Australia’s Eurocopter Squirrel WCD, also shown in the June deletions, is now with HNZ’s parent company Canadian Helicopters and flying as C-GZIK.

Going further back in time, VulcanAir A-Viator (nee Partenavia P68) PNW, which was exported to Switzerland during May 2012 after only 16 months in Australia, is now flying in Germany marked as D-ISGS.

Boeing 757-200PF BRN, which spent two years in this country with AWAS/Nordstress Australia before going to Cameroon in 2002 then to the US, Iceland, China, Brazil and Barbados, has now found its way to Austria where it is registered OE‑LFB with TNT Aviation at Liege.

Trans West Airlines imported Twin Otter TNW during June 1980 and after service with Trans West and later Sunstate Airlines it went to Islands Helicopter Services at Rabaul PNG in August 1991 where it was registered P2-IAA. Since thenit has flown in the USA, Canada and Chile before ending up in Croatia where is now flies with European Coastal Airways as 9A-TOB.

Qantas and Ansett aircraft are represented by Boeing 737-400 TJK which became N937NZ during April 2013, and after conversion to freighter configuration has now become TF-BBJ with Bluebird Cargo in Iceland; and Fokker 50 FNG which went to Sweden as SE‑LEC in January 1996, but is now back with its manufacturer Fokker and registered PH-KPB.

Dash 8-300 SDA which saw service with QantasLink operators Sunstate Airlines and Eastern Australia Airlines was returned to Bombardier in Canada in June last year to became C-FEBU, but has now been sold to Air Greenland at Nuuk, Denmark where it now flies as OY-GRO. This issue marks a significant milestone in the history of Register Review for it was 30 years ago, September 1985, that the column first appeared in Australian Aviation. Thousands of words and photos later it is still going strong with the same author and the same enthusiasm of that first issue. I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the management of AA and the hundreds of pilots, owners, builders, agents and manufacturers for their help in compiling these columns and especially the readers who, by their support over three decades and their feedback, have shaped Register Review into what it is today.

New Allocations

CCD/2 Bombardier BD 700 1A10 Global Express XRS 9297 26/6/15 Crown Melbourne, 3/8 Whiteman St Southbank Vic 3006 N703RJ VQ BSC C FQYB
FRI/3 Yakovlev Yak 52 866614 22/6/15 GB Flight Services, 10 Hibberd St Hamilton South NSW 2303 N53YK DOSAAF 65
(Yellow)
HTU/3 Bell 206L 3 LongRanger III 51483 30/6/15 Heliflite, PO Box 121 Georges Hall NSW 2198 JA6100 C FKPU
JEW/2 Cicare CH 7T Spirit Tandem 032 25/6/15 Rossy Rotor Aviation, PO Box 103 Port Hedland WA 6721
LZP/1 Bombardier BD 700 1A10 Global Express 9007 23/6/15 Air National Australia, 3/493 Saint Kilda Rd Melbourne Vic 3121 VH LEP N801TK EC IUQ N907GX C GCRW M48 01 (Malaysian Air Force) C GCRW M48 01 (Malaysian Air Force) C GCRW
MRD/3 Beach Hawk 1 23/6/15 Donald Brown, 15 Kongwak Rd Kongwak Vic 3951
NHY/2 Fokker F 28 0100 One Hundred 11467 23/6/15 Network Aviation, PO Box 136 Belmont WA 6984 PR OAQ N1455K PH EZL
PNF/5 Robinson R22 Beta II 4228 22/6/15 Penfold Investments, 40 Weedon Rd Kingsthorpe Qld 4400 ZK IJC N41128
RYS/2 Ryan ST M 302 26/6/15 Jeff Trappett, PO Box 224 Morwell Vic 3840 N302D N11D (Guatemalan Air Force)
SQM/3 Cessna S550 Citation II S550 0086 30/6/15 Machjet International, Hangar 699 Sunshine Coast Airport Qld 4564 D CJJJ N11SU
THY/3 Evektor EV 97 SportStar Plus 20071114 27/6/15 Peter Coy, 59 Chatsworth Rd Woorndoo Vic 3272 24 7167
UMZ/2 Stoddard Hamilton Glasair GIII 3198 27/6/15 Graham Doherty, 6 Light St Bar Beach NSW 2300
VVY/2 Robinson R44 Raven I 2398 26/6/15 McEwen Holdings, PO Box 451 Bangalow NSW 2479
XUH/2 Airbus A320 232 6749 29/6/15 Tiger Airways Australia, 166/1 5 Grants Rd Melbourne Airport Vic 3045
ZKY/1 Reims Cessna F406 Caravan II F406 0043 30/6/15 CGG Aviation (Australia), PO Box 1802 West Perth WA 6875 ZS SSE F WQUD D INUS F WQUD
ZZD/2 Cirrus SR22 G5 4177 27/6/15 Cirrus Design, 6 Camoola Ave Ballina NSW 2478 N9ZN

Deletions

CYI/2 Cessna A152 Aerobat A1520955 26/6/15 Exported to Fiji
DNK/4 Bombardier BD 700 1A11 Global Express 5000 9311 23/6/15 Exported to Cayman Islands
EGP/3 Skyfox CA25N Gazelle CA25N069 24/6/15 Transferred to RA Aus register
EKS/2 GippsAero GA8 TC 320 Airvan GA8 TC 320 12 181 26/6/15 Exported to USA (N231AV)
INO/5 Jabiru J230 J762 23/6/15 Transferred to RA Aus register
LEP/5 Bombardier BD 700 1A10 Global Express 9007 23/6/15 Reregistered VH LZP
NQH/3 Bell 407 53194 24/6/15 Exported to PNG
RCA/4 Cessna 750 Citation X 750 0012 23/6/15 Exported to USA (N712TX)
SFY/3 Hawker Fury FB Mk 11 ES3617 22/6/15 Withdrawn from use

Changes Of Owner Or Operator

AEZ/5 Kavanagh E 240 E240 388 30/6/15 Sven Tetlow, PO Box 586 Northam WA 6401
AIU/7 Robinson R44 Raven II 12643 25/5/15 Sylvester Pastoral, “Arcadia” Injune Qld 4454
AMM/7 Kavanagh E 240 E240 321 12/6/15 Sven Tetlow, PO Box 586 Northam WA 6401
BAB/4 Stoddard Hamilton Glasair GII S RG W205 2/6/15 Ian Crozier, 37B Charles St Narrandera NSW 2700
DIT/2 Piper J 3C 65 Cub 11410 1/6/15 Robert Bingley Pullin, 22 Goodchap St Surry Hills NSW 2010
DRI/2 Maule M 7 235B Super Rocket 23036C 1/6/15 Fairgil, PO Box 339 Moruya NSW 2537
EGD/4 Bell 206L 4 LongRanger IV 52136 12/6/15 Nautilus Aviation, PO Box 1071N Cairns North Qld 4870
GAF/2 Cessna 182C Skylane 52874 5/5/15 John Buckley, 19 Wendouree Dr Kialla Vic 3631
HPH/2 Robinson R22 Beta II 3988 9/6/15 North Australian Helicopters, PO Box 2324 Katherine NT 0851
KIC/1 PA 18 150 Super Cub 18 7509110 26/5/15 Wynwood Airspray, 15 Shipyard Cir Noosaville Qld 4566
LGV/1 Rockwell S 2R Thrush Commander 1878R 9/6/15 Peter Rohan, 55 Graylands Rd Cobden Vic 3266
MEZ/4 Maule M 5 235C Lunar Rocket 7228C 3/6/15 Southern Aviation, PO Box 1230 Bunbury WA 6231
MXX/3 Agusta Bell 47G 3B1 1627 1/6/15 Wayne Pearce, PO Box 112 Houghton SA 5131
NVE/1 PA 24 260 Comanche 24 4033 1/6/15 Neil Green, 1 Fischer Ct Ashfield Qld 4670
RLU/5 Bell 206L 1 LongRanger II 45721 29/5/15 The Experiences Group, Hangar 81 Bristol St Essendon Airport Vic 3041
SCY/3 Robinson R22 Beta II 4458 5/6/15 Isa Helicopters, PO Box 1742 Mount Isa Qld 4825
SKQ/1 Cessna 210L Centurion 21061243 5/6/15 Top End Aviation, PO Box 43007 Casuarina NT 0811
STM/3 Robinson R44 Raven I 2145 6/6/15 Airwork North Queensland, PO Box 1115 Mareeba Qld 4880
THP/1 Robinson R22 Beta 0972 13/2/15 Darryl Hardy, PO Box 148 Esk Qld 4312
TUI/2 Cessna 210N Centurion 21064076 28/5/15 Great Barrier Reef Seaplanes, PO Box 1330 Derby WA 6728
XWL/1 DH82A Tiger Moth 1033 10/6/15 Phillip Cooper, 5 Park Ct Springwood Qld 4127
XWX/2 Bell 206B 3 JetRanger III 2430 5/6/15 Airwork North Queensland, PO Box 1115 Mareeba Qld 4880