VH-WKC
Cessna 182A
Skylane
(c/n 34499)
Initially registered VH-RPT from June to September 1966, VH-WKC was
seen by David
Carter at Nowra during an air show in October 1969. At the
time it was destroyed in an
accident on September 7, 1976 it was based at Charters Towers in
Queensland. It flew
into the surface of
Lake Powlathanga killing the pilot and two of his three passengers, with
investigators suggesting the pilot’s judgment had been affected
by alcohol . He had a blood
alcohol level five times the legal limit for motorists in Australia in
2017