Ha ha. That was in January 1982 and was my first day of a successful aviation regulatory change.
I went to Nareen to have lunch with the then Prime Minster of Australia Malcolm Fraser. He had agreed to be patron of my world solo flight.
I wanted to change the registration VH-DIK from a Volksplane I had purchased to my new Jetranger that was being built in Fort Worth.
"No way" I was told by the Aviation bureaucracy in Canberra. Not even Reg Ansett was allowed to change a registration from one aircraft to another. Safety would suffer if this happened !
When I told Mr Fraser of this story over lunch he jumped on the phone to Transport Minister Ralph Hunt and demanded a change.
Sure enough I was informed on the following Monday that the rego change was approved.
And from then on anyone could do a change if they wanted to !