Tinpis, those photos make me want to cry. That hangar saw some incredible miracles performed, restoring bent, broken and tired baluses to serviceability. A real credit to the Talair engineers.
One thing I never had to worry about in a Talair aircraft was reliability.
The Clive Steele Club was the hangout in my time in Mendi (79-80); assume they are one and the same, but it had a larger entrance when I was there, plus Gus Vanscolina's very bent C-207 prop on the wall, after his engine failure in the Hum Gap.