VH-EIA Cessna 182M
Skylane
(c/n 18259996)
Outside the normal VH-RN* block, VH-EIA
was delivered new to the Royal Newcastle Aero
Club at Maitland in December 1969. It had previously been
allocated the factory registration
N92008.
David Carter saw –EIA at the South Grafton airstrip in June 1970
with RNAC titles
By
the mid 1970s, the Skylane was registered to an owner at Newman, in the
West Australian iron
ore region. The August 2016 register showed the
owner as Japfa Santori Australia, a subsidiary
of an Indonesian beef producer. It is based on a
cattle station near Katherine, in the Northern
Territory