From yesterdays local rag, - 150 Years Young..
1947
PLANES BANNED
The Department of Civil Aviation has declared Maryborough Airport partially unserviceable, meaning nothing heavier than a De Havillland Dragon can land. The Lockheed Lodestar, which lands here four times a day, can use the grass alongside the runways unless it is raining when planes can get bogged. Even worse, the Department has decided to bypass Maryborough and build a modern emergency landing ground at Bundaberg.
yet two years later....
1949
TAA service
The first aircraft of a new service will land at Maryborough's airport on Monday. Trans Australia Airlines, TAA, has arrived and the local agent, Mr. Allan Strong, says flights will be on the north and south schedules.
A 21-passenger Douglas aircraft will land twice a day, seven days a week from next Monday.
Flew a Club one privately in '68, then did Commercial training in a 1967 H model 172 in '69, so it was still a new aircraft then. Now that I have one, with less than 4,000 hours on its clock, I still think of the H model as a modern aircraft, as it is as familiar as an old friend.. The 1959 model 182 Skylane first flown as a company aircraft in '71, didn't seem old technology then, and would be quite happy to climb back into a well maintained one again now.