Bonanza on Poles

[Seagull V]

Driving along the New England highway recently I came across a Bonanza on poles in a paddock at Wyberba, a district south of Stanthorpe Qld. There was no signage, nor can I find any references on Google. Anybody got any clues about it?

[gerry111]

Seagull V,

I stopped the first time that I saw it in the middle of the paddock, March 2012. The concrete pad was then very new and an East-West grass airstrip was mown on the Northern side. The aircraft was registered VH-CCA and disappeared from the register around 1997. It's a Beech C35 Bonanza, S/No D-3023 and was last registered to G. Pike, PO Box 372, Collie, W.A. 6225.


I last saw it in August and the four cylinder engine sized prop was spinning in the breeze as I drove past.


Like you, I'd love to know the story as someone has spent a fair bit of money to place it there.

[Jabawocky]

not in Aus, but it is on a pole. :ok:

http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/IMG_1070_zps35161432.jpg

[Andy_RR]

Well, you can either stick them on poles or give them away to RV pilots... (http://www.aopa.org/AOPA-Live?watch=%7BF421300B-AFC1-4719-B8D9-CCF066403DDD%7D#ooid=xiZXZ5cDr47AX-PszywHJfqH-dTOdm_1)

[Seagull V]

Thanks gerry111. All good gen. I though the Bonanza buffs would know all about this.
Turns out that I flew VH-CCA a bit back in the 1960s. An all electric airplane, wheels, flaps and prop. The selection of climb RPM after take off was always a heart stopping moment as the RPM dropped abruptly.
At least CCA did not kill any Doctors.

[wateroff]

There's another one down that way somewhere on the way to Armidale, in the middle of a paddock in the middle of nowhere - on a stick. The cracker is what looks like a mini Egyptian pyramid behind it, not so mini - pretty darn big really. But that was at 100 or so clicks during the commute to New England.......... Might have been a UFO as well.