Hi Dora,
Once again a connection, I did my B55 endorsement on DHA in August 64 with Ted? Shaw then flew it to Darwin with Ted Shaw and Barry Soutter so that the CP (Ossie Osgood) could be endorsed before we took delivery of DME.
The Baron proved to be a very capable charter aircraft. Had a deja vu moment last week, as I was coming back to my home base I heard "Baron DMD" give an inbound call. Had to check it out and discovered that DMD is a B58 tricked up with 4 bladed props and operated by Air Frontier.
As for DHQ/SLB I was responsible for Swan Brewery getting that Aircraft. Geoffrey Cohen the boss of Swan Brewery used to charter either DMD or DHQ for regular trips around WA and once he knew Doug was selling he decided to get his own aircraft. The first choice was a Baron and he offered me the job of flying it, I suggested the QueenAir would be better and that is what he bought. I didn't take the job as I already had an interesting job lined up overseas.