Someone early in this thread said that the C185 didn't do much work... how wrong can you be!!! We had it doing the LF and FL on a regular basis... and the LW bit, of the LWP, and return many times (the old codgers will know what I'm talking about) when there was insufficient load for the DC3. No ones mentioned Jenkins (Nigel? Neil?) as one of the C185 pilots... married a Hostie who later worked at the Chemist
Around that same time was the Piper Aztec which Noel von Hoff flew. That aircraft was eventually based in Rabaul.
I was told that it was unusual for a pilot to be endorsed on C185/Otter/DC3 and F27 at one time. There was apilot in Lae in the early 60s who, I understand, had all these endorsements. Who was he?... he always flew with Phil Allen down to Honiara with the F27. He married the daughter of a lady in TAA Finance Lae.
Memories... and GOOD ones.