VH-SAK  Beech N35 Bonanza                                       (c/n  D-6776)

                                    

                                        This Bonanza had been imported through de Havilland's distributorship in October 1961 as VH-DHB.
                                        It was sold to Somerset Airways of Longreach, Queensland the following month and became VH-SAK.
                                        On 28 March 1963 Somerset sold it to M.N. Calvert of Nerrin Nerrin, Victoria and it was officially re-
                                        registered as VH-MNC.   However, when Dick Hourigan took the above shot at Essendon on 1 April
                                       1963, the painter had not gotten around to repainting it (photo via the Geoff Goodall collection).