VH-CXA
Cessna 180A Skywagon
(c/n 50048)
This 180 (ex N9750B) was
owned by the late Col Pay when Bob Neate took the above photo
at
Narromine, NSW in 1963. Colin Pay was one of Australia's
pioneers in the field of aerial
topdressing, spaying and crop dusting and helped develop many of the
techniques now regularly
used in the
industry. Sadly he was killed in an accident on 7 December
2007. VH-CXA is
still flying, as seen in the contemporary shot of it below, taken by
Phil Vabre at AAAA Fly-In
at
Narrandera in 2006. As can be seen, it has been restored in an
earlier Cessna livery than that
which it carried when new. .