VH-WET (2)
Cessna
A185A Skywagon
(c/n 185-0497)
This nice rig was owned by Schutt Aircraft of
Moorabbin and flown by Graham Schutt when
photographed by Geoff Goodall at an air show at Mangalore in January of
1968. Built as
N1697Z it was one of a fleet of similar machines operated by the
Missionary Aviation Fellow-
ship in
the Netherlands New Guinea (West Irian) and was originally registerted
JZ-PTK. After
a spell
in Australia
in the 1960s as VH-WET it returned to West Irian for service with
Mafair.
abd
was registered in Indonesia as PK-MPE.
The nice color
shot below (via Maurice Austin)
was taken
at Moorabbin by Graham
Fredrickson.