VH-ILN Beech 95-D55
Baron
(c/n TE-737)
VH-ILN arrived at Hawker de Havilland at Bankstown wearing the ferry
registration N1448A.
It was entered on the register, in HdeH’s name, in September 1969 and
delivered to Central
Australian Airways, which operated scheduled flights out of Adelaide to
towns too small to
sustain Airlines
of SA Fokker F27 services . The 1976 register gave
the owner as William
Charlick Ltd, a major flour miller
in Adelaide, which had provided financial backing to Central
Australian Airways. At the end of 1976, Central Australian
ceased operations, its routes taken
over by Williams
Airlines . –ILN, freshly repainted, was photographed
by David Carter (above)
outside Hawker de Havilland’s
Beechcraft hangar at Bankstown in 1977. The Baron was briefly
off the register in 1983 before being struck off as damaged on
August 8, 1995 The nature and
cause of
the damage are unknown.