David Robson is a career aviator having been nurtured on balsa wood, dope and tissue paper. David's first solo flight was in the de Havilland Chipmunk shortly after his seventeenth birthday. His first job was as a junior draughtsman at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne. It was during this time he learned to fly Chipmunks at the Royal Victorian Aeroclub. Joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1965 he served twenty one years as a fighter pilot and a test pilot. David has logged over 1,000 hours on Mirages and 500 hours on Sabres. In 1972, he completed the Empire Test Pilots' course at Boscombe Down flying everything from gliders to Hunters, Canberras, Lightnings and Argosies.

David completed a tour of Vietnam with the United States Air Force as a Forward Air Controller in support of the First Australian Taskforce. In Vietnam David flew 240 missions in the Cessna O-2A conducting over 80 strikes.

Temora Historic Flight Club is proud to have David display the Cessna O-2A for airshows and flying days.