Hi Riley ( nice looking wheels too )
Came across Recreational Flying by accident when doing my own searching seeing as 1976 was 40 years ago and so memory is hazy but in 1976 I was in Broken Hill and myself and a couple of other guys took our BH Aero Club Piper Archer VH - UQK across to Perth and successfully completed the race, finishing just outside the top 10.
This post is about a year after the last but if you are interested Riley, I'll dredge up the memory into something of a day by day description and some day I might even be able to find my race booklet which I am pretty sure has a listing of entrants, our number remembered for sure being No. 211