Why thank you sir..
There are a couple of interesting ones in the hangar that I will get shots of eventually - Jim's C180 from PNG, a P2 Bandit, the Broussard, and the trainer from the Sols that was originally meant to train their local pilots til the scheme went t...-up..
Independance Day 1980 New Hebrides becomes Vanuatu
The first time the new flag was run up the pole in Port Vila
Australian Orion doing the Fly-by
A year or three later at Munda in the Western Sols
Lawrence Kibule in the white shirt, the agent, was a small boy during the Japanese occupation, and still spoke a little Japanese to the visiting Tuna Fishery passengers. Saepeo, his understudy in the centre with the orange shirt, is the agent now, since Lawrence retired. Great guys all.
The International Terminal for the connections to Kieta, was a GI Nissan hut raised on stilts. The coral surface of the taxiway and runway were laid down by the Japanese and American combatants - you can still see the grooves how it was left at the end of construction. Hard as concrete, but would pothole with heavy traffic, - from motor transport mainly.
