Registration / Serial:51-12531
Aircraft Original Type:Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
Aircraft Generic Type:Cessna O-1 Bird Dog (305/321/L-19/OE)
Aircraft Version:Cessna O-1G Bird Dog (305D)
C/n (msn):22986
Operator Titles:Australia - Army
Aircraft Name:Bunny II
City / Airport:Richmond / New South Wales (YSRI / XRH)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Event:Bicentennial Air Show 1988
Photo Date:12 October 1988
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Photo ID:204636Submit Correction
View count: 404
Built by Australian Army air corps personnel using parts salvaged from a scrapyard at Vung Tau, Vietnam in 1970. Plan was to use it as a glider tug at the army air corps base at Oakey, Queensland. Painted blue with white cheatline and test flown by a US Army pilot. Shipped back to Australia. Sent to the Army Aviation Museum as the Bird Dog was not at the time approved for civil use in Australia. Flown occasionally and repainted in the same olive drab as the army's Cessna 180s. Now an exhibit at the museum in the blue and white markings applied in Vietnam.
Registration / Serial:51-12531
Aircraft Version:Cessna O-1G Bird Dog (305D)
C/n (msn):22986
Operator Titles:Australia - Army
City / Airport:Richmond / New South Wales (YSRI / XRH)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:12 October 1988
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Registration / Serial:51-12531
Aircraft Original Type:Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
Aircraft Generic Type:Cessna O-1 Bird Dog (305/321/L-19/OE)
Aircraft Version:Cessna O-1G Bird Dog (305D)
C/n (msn):22986
Operator Titles:Australia - Army
Aircraft Name:Bunny II
City / Airport:Richmond / New South Wales (YSRI / XRH)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Event:Bicentennial Air Show 1988
Photo Date:12 October 1988
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website
Photo ID:204636Submit Correction
View count: 404
Built by Australian Army air corps personnel using parts salvaged from a scrapyard at Vung Tau, Vietnam in 1970. Plan was to use it as a glider tug at the army air corps base at Oakey, Queensland. Painted blue with white cheatline and test flown by a US Army pilot. Shipped back to Australia. Sent to the Army Aviation Museum as the Bird Dog was not at the time approved for civil use in Australia. Flown occasionally and repainted in the same olive drab as the army's Cessna 180s. Now an exhibit at the museum in the blue and white markings applied in Vietnam.
Registration / Serial:51-12531
Aircraft Version:Cessna O-1G Bird Dog (305D)
C/n (msn):22986
Operator Titles:Australia - Army
City / Airport:Richmond / New South Wales (YSRI / XRH)Map
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Photo Date:12 October 1988
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)Website