VH-DBN Cessna 180
Skywagon
(c/n 32379)
VH-DBN was a second-hand crop
duster import (ex 4982A) registered on 24 April 1962 for Air
Culture Ltd of Perth.
It arrived crated and was assembled at Bankstown by
Aerial Agriculture.
The above shot, by Alistair Coutts, was taken at Jandakot in 1964.
-DBN was destroyed when
it crashed at Green Range near
Albany WA on 26 March 1966 after striking trees on takeoff from
an ag
strip. The photo below, from the Geoff Goodall collection,
shows the sad remains.