Identity Help Needed

[Peter Lewis]

I am working my way through cataloging a recently acquired collection of aircraft slides.

Two of them have me stumped.

This one is a Cessna 207, marked as ZK-RAC



the only three RACs I have listed are all gyrocopters


and this 172, PWN - yet I dont have any such registration listed.



These slides appear to date from around 1979.

I assume that these aircarft actually ended up with other IDs - any suggestions?

[McFly]

It may appear that ZK-PWN was actually ZK-BWN as per the comments in this 2017 blog (link). ("If you invert the picture's colours back to a negative and lighten it you can clearly see the P was altered from a B. Also, it looks like BWN has been over-painted on the tail fin too."). And some further rego details here (link)..

And ZK-RAC may have been ZK-ETC as per this blog (link) and (link)..

[Peter Lewis]

Thanks for that.
It does seem to make sense.

I know that some years ago there were a few aircraft mooching around looking for patches of illegal vegitation, and in order to make retalitory action difficult they bore misleading registrations. That might explain BWN/PWN

[thomarse]

Memory is a great thing (when you have it...)

I don't recall it at all but I see I was onto the BWN/PWN thing back in the day

I wonder if Rex Air Charter ("RAC") assumed that they were going to be allowed that rego then found that in fact they weren't?

Ironically I have both BWN and ETC in my logbook...

[dakman]

Hi Thomarse by any chance did you ever get a photo of the short lived WRAC C172 ZK BWM .?

[thomarse]

No sorry...