Ferried across the Pacific as N4087A, VH-ILT was registered to Beech
agent Hawker de Havilland
in April 1970. David
Carter’s picture shows it looking sparkling at Bankstown on 21 November
the same
year . The aircraft was still registered in August 2016 to
an owner on the Gold Coast.
Recent images of it show it in the same blue and tan colour scheme as
in David’s picture. However,
it has been
fitted with tip tanks, a feature more commonly associated with earlier
model Bonanzas.
Laurie Gillham took a
shot of it (below) after having visited the Birdsville Races in it in
2017.