contractor . It joined the Australian register in July 1968 and flew on TAA’s Queensland oper-
ations until withdrawn from use at Eagle Farm in January 1974 . From April 1975 it was leased,
then sold to Islandair, of Toowoomba and two years later it went to Aeropelican at Belmont for
use to the Mascot-Newcastle commuter route It was in Aeropelican colours that David Carter
photographed it at Mascot in 1980. In 1981 it was sold to Talair in Papua New Guinea as
P2-RDH and was again photographed by David at Madang in March 1983 (below) Talair
leased it to Aerolift Philippines from February 1987 to November 1990 as RP-C1218. It then
flew on as P2-RDH until it was withdrawn from use in May 1993 at Goroka before two months
later being ferried to Cairns, where it sat until sold to Milne Bay Air as P2-MBS in March 1994.
It was sold to Corporate Air Services, of Cairns, in September 2000 as VH-MBX and scrapped
at Cairns the following year.
