VH-PLK
Cessna U206E
Skywagon
(c/n U20601512)
David Carter’s photo of VH-PLK shows it at Bankstown several months
before it came on to the
register in
December that year . It had been N9912M before being
dismantled, crated and shipped
to
Australia. The initial registered owner was Rex Aviation. –PLK
soon found itself in Papua New
Guinea and
was with the Lutheran Mission at Goroka when it was transferred to the
PNG register
as P2-PLK
in May 1974. In August 1979 it was
reregistered P2-MFL with the Missionary
Aviation
Fellowship . It was still with MAF on January
10, 1996 when it suffered a serious
accident
at Suki, in the PNG Western Province It is not known if it
recovered from that accident
. and the Skywagon
was formally was withdrawn from use February 2003.