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    Airframe Family: North American A-36 / P-51/F-51 Mustang / P-48 Enforcer
    Latest Model:CA-18-Mk 21 Mustang
    Last Military Serial:A68-104 RAAF
    Construction Number:1429
    Last Civil Registration:VH-BOB
    Compressed ID:Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation C...
    Latest Owner or Location:Robert Edward Eastgate, Airport West, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    1947

    Constructed as a CA-18-Mk 21 by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation.

    20 November 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A68-104.

    1955

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored.

    28 April 1958

    To Titus Oates.

    1964

    To Tony Fisher.
    Reported to have made several flights although not on the register.

    January 1964


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Those canvas covers certainly spoil a picture. CA-18 Mustang Mk.21 A68-104 outside Adastra Aerial Surveys hangar at Sydney Airport in January 1964. Adastras plans to use it for high altitude photography had been abandoned and it was sold to a privateowner. A68-104 flew out on 2 August 1964 on delivery, and was based on a farm at Jerilderie NSW. It later became VH-BOB

    1970

    Found by Bob Eastgate decaying in a Jerilderie barn.

    26 February 1976

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-BOB.
    Restored and flying again.

    26 February 1976

    To Robert Leslie Eastgate, Essendon Fields, VIC keeping c/r VH-BOB.

    26 February 1976

    Operated by A. Jelliffe Proprietary Limited.

    March 1976


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: CAC Mustang Mk.21 A68-104 at Essendon Vic in March 1976, a few weeks after its civil certification as VH-BOB for owner Bob Eastgate, Melbourne. Its first test flight was 26 February 1976 at Essendon

    16 March 1978

    To Robert Eastgate, Moonee Ponds, VIC keeping c/r VH-BOB.

    1991


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1991 photo at RAAF Richmond

    18 April 2005

    To Robert Eastgate, Moonee Ponds, VIC keeping c/r VH-BOB.

    18 April 2005

    Operated by A. Jelliffe Proprietary Limited.

    Based at Mustang Air Charter, Point Cook Airport, Melborne, Victoria.
    View the Location Dossier

    To Mustang Joy Flights, Point Cook Airport, Melborne, Victoria.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 November 2022

    To Robert Edward Eastgate, Airport West, VIC keeping c/r VH-BOB.

    20 October 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With new spinner colors, without registration on the empanage at Warbirds Downunder 2024, Temora, QLD
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