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Old 8th Feb 2006, 02:14
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Runway37
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No Doubt it was VH-KLP... registered that after Kevin and Lisa Pearce (not surprisingly), the owner(s).

The aircraft was operated in WA not long ago and does so most other years at the Horizontal Falls, by none-other than Kevin himself; no cross-hire arrangement there; it's purely a seasonal thing, up in WA for the dry season and in Tassie for the wet season, which just happens to be summer down there; the only real time that anyone could tolerate the god-forsaken weather down there.

I remember looking closely at it and it had a god-awful paint job, where for example they used a piece of paper and tape so that the rego didn't get painted over during the respray... perhaps a sign of something more cinister...??? or you can't judge a book by it's cover????

Oh, and it's the 208, not the 208B, so only a small-fry.... perhaps that's how it gets it's remarkable glide ratio.

Last edited by Runway37; 8th Feb 2006 at 02:29.