VH-DPI Cessna 182K
Skylane
(c/n 18258003)
Allocated the registration N3003Q in the factory, VH-DPI arrived in
Australia by sea and was
registered
VH-DPI in May 1967. David Carter saw it at Moorabbin in
December 1969. The
1976
register showed the owner to be Stanbroke Pastoral Company, one of
Australia’s major
beef cattle
enterprises but still based at Moorabbin. From September
1981 to November that
year it was off the register as withdrawn from use. In
more recent years it has been used for
skydiving,
still in Victoria. On March 24, 1996, it overran the strip at
Bridgewater during skyd-
iving
operations, suffering substantial damage from which it recovered.
In July 2016, the register
showed the
owner as Leslie Facer, of Geelong, who is a well known pilot in
skydiving circles .