VH-SJU Beech 95-55
Baron
(c/n TC-188)
American
Deane Stahmann Jnr brought VH-SJU with him when he arrived to set up a
vast pecan
nut
farm at Moree. A Colemill President 600 conversion, with
300hp engines, the aircraft had
been N1556Z before being entered on the Australian register in December
1969. Stahmann went
on to be the largest producer of pecans and macadamia in the southern
hemisphere with farms
at Moree and Toowoomba. He died in 2013 of
cancer and it is not known how long he had
retained –SJU. It was current in December 2016 and
registered to an owner at Stanthorpe –
between Moree and Toowoomba.