VH-EIM (2) Cessna P206C
Super Skylane
(c/n P206-0476)
If the Model 206 was in the Utility range they
were named Super Skywagon, but if they lacked the
starboard side cargo door and were designed P206, they were called
Super Skylanes. Many of
the
latter also had the cargo pack, so common with the U206 model,
although this one didn't. Both
shots from the Geoff Goodall collection, and both show it sporting
Pilbara Air Services titling. Above,
at Wittenoon, WA in
August 1976, and below at Ceduna, SA while being ferried from Perth
to Mel-
bourne as a trade-in
. By that time it had had a logo applied to the
tail. New in June 1968, the aircraft
had
originally been registered to the Reverend Harold Shepherdson of
Elcho Island Methodist Mission
in the
NT After a variety of subsequent owners it suffered a
power failure on a flight back to Ceduna
over
Kangaroo Island on 8 March 2000. The aircraft ditched
into the sea 104 km ESE of Kingscote,
KI
where it sank almost immediately. . A passenger
manged to escape and was rescued by a RAAF
helicopter, but the pilot was lost.