VH-SQM  Beech B55 Baron                                    (c/n TE-812)

                                                        

                                  Here's a new Baron in the Hawker de Havilland  hangar at Bankstown in 1970.  Photo by David
                                  Carter.  Below is a John Wheatley color shot outside taken at about the same time. . It remained
                                  on Hawker de H's books for a year (probably as a demonstrator) and was sold to Macair Charters
                                  of Lae, PNG in June 1971.  In 1974 it was re-registered into the independent New Guinea register
                                  as P2-SQM .  When on-sold to Talair it became P2-GKM.