VH-KRE Cessna 182K
Skylane
(c/n 18257872)
Registered in May 1967, VH-KRE has been N2672Q
before being shipped to Australia for
sale
by Cessna agent Rex Aviation. When David Carter
photographed it at Mascot in 1969
it was
with the Canberra Aero Club and was still with the club when it
competed in the
London-Sydney air race as the end of that year. It was
Race #41. –KRE was in the
news in
September 1974 when it was the jump ship for a parachutist who fell to
his death
at Wilton,
the skydiving centre south-west of Sydney. The 1976
register showed the owner
as Hawker
de Havilland, presumably after being traded on another aircraft.
Still current in
October
2016, –KRE was owned by a farmer near Kilmore, north of Melbourne.