Slight thread drift. The pic below shows two of these terrible triplets behind a hangar at Bonriki airport, Tarawa atoll. Logged a few hours on these Trislanders and must say it was an experience. These two frames haunted the skys intially in Fiji before being sent to the then Gilbert Islands, now known as Kiribati.
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Starter motor change island style. Perhaps this was the same in PNG?
Wonderful memories flying these aircraft. Still have my hearing too. Good luck with the Vanuatu operations.