First Reg 203 exemption?
Gaunty, on 15th May, posted that he was involved with setting up the first such operation. An historian correct me if wrong, but it was Port Augusta Air Services (PAGAS) with a C402 (VH-BUD?) that was the inaugural Reg 203 commuter airline in 1967 or '68, followed by Maslings with the same equipment. (Broughton and Parnell's mammoth history of Australian aviation, 'Flightpast', covers these matters succinctly, but I don't have a copy handy. By the way, if anyone wants to purchase a mint copy of the same, I have a couple in storage which I'll sell for $90 +p&p each.)