Yes there was a DC3 "preserved" at Nadzab from about 1980
 

If you drove passed the terminal on the way to the Tower, on the right hand side the DC-3 was in the middle of a park area between the terminal and the Flight Service centre

I checked out the original photo 8X10 and it is VH-MAT parked at Wapenamunda

Another otter at kikori
 

Heard a rumour that another otter went for a skid at kikori today. And it wasn't the same mob as last time. Not sure about details, damge etc. Anyone care to elaborate??

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/240/png65.jpg

Still got the matting at Kikori?

I remember it as sea level with the river at one end about 700m. It was like pushing a metal wave in front of the landing gear when landing. Noisy too. Can't remember how slippery it was though?

Obviously I'm not sure when that photo was taken but the Marsden matting is not looking nearly as smooth as that now. Holes that have been filled in with earth (sometimes) etc and broken sections sticking up these days. Can become like an ice rink when wet.

Alistair, that picture is dated. The muddy over-grown goat track overrun with people, dogs and obstacles that exists today under the guise of an airport does not bear quite the same resemblance... :hmm:

Pic was taken in 1998...sorry didn't mean to imply that the usual decay hadn't occurred. I was actually wondering if the matting was still there at all?

I hate it when I get reminded I'm getting old :ok: Seems like just yesterday I was in PNG, but over 10 years now...

Glad to hear no one got hurt.

Lets just say that SOME of the matting is still there.... :E :}

I'm no longer in country so my memories might be dated also! :ooh:

TAA Lae
 

Does anyone have a photograph/picture of that odd shaped TAA bus, that transported staff and passengers between Transair Lodge and the town airport in the 1960s, that they can post? Whatever happened to it?
Many thanks

some of the matting is still there, although in appalling condition.
Because the dirt under it is soft, the Twotters have bent the center sections of the matting and its now all half round, with the ends poking up above each other. nothing quite like taxiing on a moving runway with continuous three inch jumps every four feet.. Apparently APNG stopped going in there to save money on tyres.

Once John left KIK it was always going to happen. I first went there in early 87 in a C185 and I believe John had been there for over 30 years at that point - one of life's characters - anyone know where he is now (I thought I saw his C180 P2-KIK for sale in Cairns a few years ago?) and how he is getting on?

DC 3 at Nadzab
 

There certainly was a DC 3 "derelict" at Nadzab. Here are two pictures taken in July 1988. Looked very sad already at that time. :sad: Unfortunately the pictures show no registration.

http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/x...Nadzab1988.jpg


http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/x...adzab19882.jpg

Animalclub.

Just a long shot I guess, but Macair had a strange looking bus converted to an engine trest truck. I guess as a bus it would have held around 20 passengers? I wonder if Macair acquired that from TAA?

I think the engine test bus was acquired by Talair in the Macair take over and may have been shipped to Brisbane as I vaguely remember it at the Archerfield hangar.

I'd guess it may have been acquired by Max Paynter of Brisbane Aero Engineers at Archerfield??n I think Max is now gone but his son may remember.

That may jog some memories.

Should jog Mendi 6 memory...

That big Z above the cockpit denotes P2-ANZ which had been VH-MAT in an earlier life and a page or two back in this thread.

I remember these buggers were particularly hard to load through the balus door...:hmm:






http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15.../PNG/arras.jpg

Hmmm....... minor points discussed........

The bloke looks very lucky to be alive. Are they Kukukuku arrows?

Tinny - After all these years of wondering I finally have the answer as to why the C206 replaced the C185 in PNG ops.

Wantok - if they was Kukuku arrows he wouldn't be in the haus sik with some dude fitting an intravenous drip - he'd be on a slab in the mortuary.

Clearly he had decided whatever he was up to wasn't much fun anymore since the owners of the Meri/Bia/Kai Kai/car had turned up - he has more arrows in his back than his front.

Reminds me of the fella in Lae who faced a moment of choice when he awoke and saw a Rascal walking towards his front gate with his TV in the middle of the night. Shoot him = dropped TV. From memory it took the Lae coppers a year to work out the rascal wasn't shot in self defence - given he was found face down on a broken TV.

Not Kukukuku but Timika, other side of the border, same island though..

I reckon he would have been in better shape if he avoided going to the haus sik in POM. Generally you arrive there and then quickly deteriorate to dai pinis.