Formerly G-AYKP and registered to Islander Aircraft Sales Australia in
December 1970, VH-ISC
was
photographed by David Carter at Bankstown on January 2, 1971. It was
among the first aircraft
on the new
Papua New Guinea register when it became P2-ISC in May 1974
. In November 1975
it was reregistered
P2-NAM, with Panga Airways, and almost immediately another Islander,
c/n 394
, was registered
P2-ISC. David Carter photographed P2-NAM (below) at
Lae’s town airport, now
closed, in March 1983
when it was with Morobe Airways and a BN-2A-26 with higher operating
weights. On December 22, 1995, it overran
Begesin airstrip, Madang Province, and was written
off.
Two of the12 on board, including the pilot, were killed. At the
time –NAM was flown by Islands
Nationair.