VH-CDW Cessna 180 Skywagon
(c/n 30612)
Three shots of the
same Cessna 180 by Geoff Goodall. Interesting in that its livery
got progressively
better as the years went on! -CDW was an early
180 originally built as N2312C. A crop duster, it
went
to New Zealand as ZK-BEG before crossing the Tasman Sea to join Super
Spread's fleet as
VH-SSQ
It later went to Robbys and in the photo above, taken at
Tintinara, SA in September
1966 it was a
duster/spreader with Coondair Pty Ltd, a local ag operator, who
acquired it in October
of the prior
year. In January 1967 they had it re-registered into their into
their VH-CD block. In the
photo immediately
below it is seen at Northam, WA in May 1970, by now cleaned up as a 4
seater and
owned by GRD Co,
a Sydney outfit supporting an aerial survey operation in the area along
with their
BN-2A Islanders. Finally,
at the bottom of the page is a shot of -CDW at Jandakot in February 1971
sporting full GRD
colors. This old bird was finally cancelled from the
register in November 1994.
