Queenair Prang???

[Jamair]

Nah, wasn't one of Snows....he had RUU which burnt in a hangar fire in TWB and FWG which was meatbombing @ CDR before Denis gopt hold of it and it went to South America.....or at least that was the plan.....

[Sked]

Flew XAE and AEQ. Two lovely ladies. Best non-pressurised piston twins I ever flew.

[prospector]

And what was AEQ is now slowly mouldering away at Palmerston North, its new name ZK-WKA. It was certainly a lovely aeroplane, and when fitted with a Garmin 430 made the run out to the Chatham Islands a real pleasure, most of the time.

[sms777]

Don't tell me they implemented the sparlife AD in NZ too? That was the reason why AEQ ended up over there......bugger

[Mr Milk]

What a waste of a great machine...

SMS- are you 100% sure that the eildon xae and the recently de registered xae are not the same?
I can find them on the net as the same serial #.

cheers

[flying-spike]

Eildon Weir accident

I was told at the time that the pilot of that aircraft was a guy I knew when he was the station pilot of a place just outside Camooweal. Anyone know more?

[601]

Snows....he had RUU which burnt in a hangar fire

Not correct. RUU was bought after the hangar fire to replace the one destroed in the fire.
DB is shown as the owner of RUU.

FWG was one of two Queen Airs that Snow bought for the survey contract. The second was destroyed in a crash in Victoria.

A new Queen Air was obtained to replace the crashed one. This is the one that was destroyed in the fire along with a Baron and several other aircraft.

[sms777]

Mr Milk

I am going by the information given to me by the previous owner of XAE who is a good friend of mine. I will contact him and find out that it is in fact correct or not.
You got me curious now......
I will keep you posted....
Cheers.

PS. If it is the same aircraft they have done a damn good job repairing it because i logged nearly 100 hrs in it and it flew and handled perfect every time.

[Jamair]

601....yer right of course; I shouldn't post when I'm half asleep..... I think there's still bits of RUU in DBs graveyard at Roma....

Those bl00dy thing used to wake up 3/4 of TWB when they did the early morning runups for the moonie / moomba runs....and that was when the airport WASN'T in the middle of town

When FWG was meatbombing @ CDR you could hear it taking off and climbing, from Bribie to Maroochy (well almost )

[601]

wake up 3/4 of TWB

The plan was to wake up ALL of TWB

[OZBUSDRIVER]

Ha, my CFI used to reckon that you could never get lost TWB-CV...just follow the oil track left by Codd's Queenairs.

[Capt Fathom]

just follow the oil track left by Codd's Queenairs

You only need to worry when the oil stops coming out!

[Cpt Link Hog]

Very nice machine in NZ there is no 10k rule on the spar life. only the c402
last semi alive one lives in Palmerston North herd has been sold so it may live another day.
WKA (AEQ) was brought in from OZ to replace PHA Which was doing the Chatham Island fish run owned by a private owner
PHA had corrision issues in the wings
Put the wings off WKA (AEQ) on PHA but two flights later Old fart who was flying it did a wheels on roll out....ummm was that the flap or the gear swich... F%$#ed it! Wings back off PHA back on WKA got a big birthday new paint, flash cargo interior, Garmin 430 ect ect stopped flying after about 2 years would have been a good buy

[prospector]

" Put the wings off WKA (AEQ) on PHA but two flights later Old fart who was flying it did a wheels on roll out...."

Your knowledge of fact would be on a par with your spelling.