VH-CYL (2) Cessna 182D Skylane
(c/n 53076)
The second allocation of the
rego VH-CYL was this 1961 model 182D. It was previously
N9976T and first registered
in Australia in January 1966, being one of the second hand air-
craft imported by
Hazair Sales & Service at that time. Geoff Goodall's shot
above was taken
at
their home base of Orange, NSW in February of that year, just after the
Cessna had arrived
from the US.. It was
sold to the Australian Presbyterian Mission based at the remote Aurukun
aboriginal community on Cape York Peninsular in Far North Queensland.
Peter Kelly photo-
graphed it (below) at
Cairns in January 1971. This fifty + year
old (+) Cessna is still
current,
and registered to a private
owner in Broken Hill, NSW (2012).