VH-PLB    Cessna 182H Skylane                                   (c/n  18256543)

                                  

                                        VH-PLB was registered in April 1966 having previously been allocated N8443S at the
                                        Cessna factory.     When David Carter saw it at Bankstown in 1970 it was a long way
                                        from its home at Cooktown, in Far North Queensland where it was owned by the Starcke
                                        River Cattle Co    . In the mid 1970s it was registered to a Brisbane address and in the
                                        2000s was used for skydiving in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley   . It was still registered to a
                                        Latrobe Valley owner in December 2016.