VH-RHO Cessna 182J
Skylane
(c/n 18256694)
Built as N8594S, VH-RHO was registered in June 1966. When David
Carter photographed
it at Bankstown in 1976 it was titled “Lease and Industrial Finance”,
whose name had appeared
on several aircraft in Sydney. It is unclear if the company was
the operator or had repossessed
the aircraft and was offering it for
resale. It is known that by 1977 it was
with an owner from
Woolgoolga, on the NSW North
Coast. In May 1994 –RHO was sold in Papua New
Guinea
where it became
P2-RHO. It was owned by Brian Brumley, the owner of
the Bensbach Wildlife
Lodge . It
suffered a minor accident at a remote airstrip and was transported back
to Bensbach
by
road. Soon after Brumley was forced by the local
people to abandon his lodge . He has
since passed away and –RHO was left, still dismantled, to rot away in a
shed at Bensbach.