Lae town strip closed around 87 or 88. Charles Perry will remember as he was Talair at that time and made the move to Nadzab. The C47 that went down in the Kuni had been extensively refurbished at Australian taxpayer expense and was taking part in a three ship formation (Aravo and Nomad) over Igham Barracks where, from memory, the Airwing was being formally handed over to PNGDF control. EFATO and closed the wrong throttle! The fuselage, less wings was towed backwards down the highway to Lae where the ADF still operated the maintenance hangar at Lae airport. Again, from memory, the Government got heavy with the operators, Richard Leahy built a hangar at Nadzab and Talair also moved up into one end of the terminal building. Pacific helicopters remained at the Lae city airport. The area surrounding Nadzab was a great source of WWII artifacts from marsden matting to .50 cal machine guns albeit very rusted.