VH-UBI Cessna
402B
(c/n 402B0028)
Registered N5428M for its ferry flight to Australia, VH-UBI came onto
the register in November
1970. .
It was sold to Bush Pilot Airways and was operated by them for much of
the 1970s. It
later flew with
AvDev Airlines, which operated third-level services out of Mascot where
David
Carter
photographed it in 1982. It passed to AirTransit, which flew
services to South Australia’s
Kangaroo Island.
On July 4, 1988,-UBI’s undercarriage collapsed on
landing on the island
at
Parndana aerodrome. It was formally removed from
the register as withdrawn from use in
May the following year.