VH-DGF  Cessna 182G Skylane                                 (c/n  18255755)

                                 

                                       VH-DGF was registered in January 1965.   It had been N3256S with Cessna before being shipped
                                       to the Australian Cessna agent Rex Aviation.   David Carter photographed it at Mascot in December
                                      1969 when it was owned by Kennett Dairies from St Marys, a western Sydney suburb.  Kennett had
                                       its own airstrip, which still existed in 2016, and in the late 1970s operated a Cessna 340 twin under
                                       the name Kennett Aviation.    By 1976 –DGF was based in the far western NSW outback town of
                                       Wanaaring, (definitely beyond the black stump).  -DGF was damaged on 20 January 1987, when it
                                       overran the airstrip at Yatton, Queensland.     It was, however, not so badly damaged as to be struck
                                       off the register and was still current in August 2016, and is now registered to an owner from the North
                                       East Victorian town of Mount Beauty who acquired in in 2008.