VH-UBG Cessna 172K
Skyhawk
(c/n 17258954)
David Carter’s picture of VH-UBG shows it outside the Rex Aviation
assembly hangar at Banks-
town about
the time it was registered, which was in August 1970. Many
aircraft vanish into the
vastness of outback
Australia never to be photographed by enthusiasts again and –UBG seems
to
have been one of
them . In 1976 it was based at Klondyke
Station near White Cliffs in the
remote and arid north-west
of NSW. In November 2016 it was much closer at
civilisation
at Toogong, in the
Central West of NSW and just down the road from Cudal airport, the
former
base of Hazelton Airlines. That airport became a farm
machinery sales and service centre in the
wake of the
collapse of Ansett, who owned Hazelton.