VH-SSM   Cessna 180 Skywagon                        (c/n  32489)

                                   

                                         This Skywagon is registered in the Super Spread Aviation series regos, but was owned by Air
                                         Mist when Geoff Goodall took the above shot at Parafield in September 1966.     Hence I will
                                         not list it under the Super Spread sub-series.  Geoff's shot was taken late in the day as the air-
                                         craft was returning from a spraying sortie.  This Skywagon was originally a Mafair machine and
                                         operated in Dutch New Guinea as JZ-PTE.     Super Spread acquired it in January 1963 and it
                                         subsequently passed to Air Mist.  It ended up with Norwest Air Charter at Smithton, Tasmnia
                                         and, like most of their fleet, had a short life    .  On 21 November 1970 it had engine failure on
                                         takeoff from Couta Rocks, on the rugged west coast of Tasmania, crashied, overturned and was
                                         destroyed by fire. The 4 occupants all escaped.