VH-CSC Cessna
205
(c/n 205-0055)
This was actually
the second VH-CSC, the first being the Anson ex VH-AQV, which was
re-regis-
tered when it
was acquired by Crowley Airways
. However, the chances of my ever securing a
picture of it as -CSC
are probably remote. This
Cessna also had a previous identity, namely
VH-ANY and was imported
in January 1963. ex N1855Z. It was re-registered into the
Crowley
Airways VH-CS
series in August of that same year. Ben Dannecker's shot above
was taken in New
Guinea in 1970.
Like many aircraft operating for Australian owned concerns in PNG ,
it was re-
registered on the
Papua/New Guinea register in 1974, following the gaining of
independence of that
nation. Most
aircraft initially merely had P2 substituted for VH-, although many
were subsequently
re-registered
within the P2- register. P2-CSC was not and, in fact,
was restored to the VH- register
in June 1979 when
it returned south again. It is still current and registered in
NSW.