Laikim Liklik Susu, a wonderful memory evoking thread you have running here, sufficient to move me from my Pprune observer's seat to writing a word or two.
I can settle your query posed a couple of posts ago about the very last operation of the Sunbird, it was me your honour, I'm guilty of the crime.
As you have said correctly, VH-SBD was the last aircraft to wear the Sunbird, and with Peter Iredell as Captain, and myself as F/O, ferried it to Brisbane for overhaul and a new paint scheme on September 22nd, 1971. After that, the Sunbird was gone forever. As I was "going finish", Peter Iredell, as the gentleman he was, allowed me the last sector, so I guess that makes me the last Sunbird pilot.
I later crewed the post-overhaul test flight of SBD before it's return to New Guinea, and in it's new "TAA Look of the 70's", had lost it's character altogether.
Thanks for evoking the memories,
Tiger (Ken) Maynard