VH-DST (2) Cessna 182K
Skylane
(c/n 18258237)
Technically the
second -DST (the first was a Cessna U206C which became VH-IXP
immediately
upon being
registered), this Skylane was registered in November
1967 . That was around the
time a new 182K
with the c/n 58237 would have been registered. However,
this registration was
well out of sequence
for a Rex Aviation aircraft at that time, so it may have been the
personal choice
of the buyer Or it might have been imported privately.
Certainly when David Carter photographed
it at
Bankstown in 1970 its registration letters were not where Rex
customarily applied them (on the
tail). The choice of putting them in smaller letters on the
fuselage in black over the ambient color is
odd, to
say the least . –DST was still current in
September 2016 and owned by Arcav Aviation,
of Albury.