Must try and track the history of it over the last 20 or so, years, and if it is still going. Was our first turbine (and mine too). Delivered new mid November '80. Serial # TC 338. Don't have a note in the diary on the exact date, but see that I had an engine failure in an Islander after departing Ballalae over the border while going to Kieta on the 10th Nov. and landed there on one, picked it up on the 12th. and flew it for the next 3 days, then later did training circuits and a flight to Auki in the Metro on the 19th Nov., and a service to Kieta ICUS the next day. One of the few new ones flown - have put time on high time frames mostly - so the new Islander in Queensland previously, and the the two new ATR's S#'s 0109 and 0113 later, were all good equipment at the time..
Taxying in on the delivery - mid Nov.'80
The delivery pilot, Neil, brought his family for a holiday while he continued working checking us onto the type.
Air Pacific BAC 111 & Solair Metro transferring passengers to and from Kieta at Honiara
