• Aircraft:

  Cessna 185A Skywagon

• Reg: P2-CMS photos
• Serial #:

  185-0506

• Airline: Talair
• Photo Date: Mar 01, 1975
• Uploaded: Nov 21, 2021
• Mount Hagen - AYMH, Papua New Guinea

Close-cropped Topside rear Portside view of Talair Cessna 185A Skywagon P2-CMS MSN 185-0506 at Mount Hagen Airport (Kagamuga AYMH / HGU) during Mar 1975. Talair Cessna 402 P2-GKD MSN 402-0164 is parked at rear right. At rear-left is Territory Airlines (Talair) De Havilland Twin Otter P2-GKR Cn 187, “City of Tari”, which crashed with 28 fatalities on 17Dec1994. [Operating as Missionary Aviation Fellowship P2-MFS, the aircraft collided with a mountainside at 6400ft AMSL, near Olsobip, Papua New Guinea. Aircraft was enroute from Tabubil to Selbang in poor weather.] (The C185 was delivered to Ansett-MAL in November 1962. Retained until 1968 when sold to Territory Airlines (Talair). In 1970, still owned by Talair, re-registered P2-CMS and later P2-SEM. Returned to Australia in August 1985 and restored as VH-CMS. Later Sold in the USA as N969WM. Ref: Eddie Coates Collection.)

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Low res close-cropped front Portside view of Australia Army Bell 206B-1 Kiowa / CA-32 A17-021 (Cn 44521 / CA32-21) hovering near the Mount Hagen Control Tower in Mar 1975

Wal Nelowkin A17-021

1,417 4 1 Bell 206B-1 Kiowa

Side view of Airfast Sud-Est SE3160 Alouette III P2-UHR MSN 1606 descending to the apron at Mount Hagen Airport TPNG during Mar 1975

Wal Nelowkin P2-UHR

1,311 4 0 Sud-Est SE.3160 Alouette III

Close-cropped Topside rear Portside view of Talair Cessna 185A Skywagon P2-CMS MSN 185-0506 at Mount Hagen Airport (Kagamuga AYMH / HGU) during Mar 1975

Wal Nelowkin P2-CMS

1,608 4 0 Cessna 185A Skywagon

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Wal Nelowkin XX264

186 4 0 British Aerospace Hawk T.1A

Rare rear Stbd Color view of In-Service USAF North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4536 (Cn 191-232) Code FU536 (with droptanks) parked at Pyongtaek (now RKSG) South Korea in 1954

Wal Nelowkin 52-4536

803 11 1 North American F-86F Sabre

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Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30