Cessna 336 VH-CMY
 

Does anyone know the current whereabouts and ownership of this aeroplane? Last registered to TC Air of Annandale NSW.

Rgds

and why does the title force VH-CMY into lower case?


No idea :confused: but I'll try to fix it.

Tail Wheel

VH-CMY
 

Was that aircraft owned/operated by Ansett-MAL in TPNG way back in the 1960's?

A search of the register comes up with the following for VH-CMY:

CMY AYRES CORPORATION S2R S2R-G6 G6-152 2722 1 GARRETT TURBINE ENGINE CO Turboprop TPE331-6 Kerosene Full Registration WILD EAGLE HOLDINGS PTY LTD PO Box 637 KUNUNURRA WA 6743

DF.

Didn't the Ansett-Mal ones have a modification to the rear engine so that it could be swung out of the way to allow the loading of freight?

Sharpie

Yes

Stationair8

Yes

Desert Flower

It's off the Register and the registration has been reallocated.

Rgds

The ex Ansett, ex Talair C336 with swinging rear engine was at Coolangatta a few years ago.

If that was VH/P2-CMY, it may have been scrapped there as it didn't look like it was going anywhere in a hurry last time I saw it.

VH-CMY "pusim ikam pullem igo" (sp)

It never went anywhere in a hurry when I was flying her in 1971 in Mendi.




VH-CMY
« on: April 11, 2007, 09:32:11 AM »

Now de registered, CMY was abandoned at Coolangatta Airport over 10 years ago. This is how I saw it in about 1997. A very unusual modification allowed the rear engine to swing on hinges to allow the transportation of 44 gallon drums. I hear that the catch released itself in flight at one stage, with no adverse damage.
David

http://board.net.au/yabbse/index.php...ach=1154;image

As far as I can recall this was "Waddles" mount in Chimbu back then?

http://board.net.au/yabbse/index.php...ach=1862;image

Where is GKY these days?
I considered buying that years ago when it had been sitting idle at Parafield for many years, had blue/yellow paint at that time if I recall correctly.
Last I heard of it it had suffered an in flight fire as a result of a broken exhaust on the rear engine and was thought to be dead.

Memories!?
 

Interestingly enough, of the four TAL C336's, -CMY was the best flyer. The C336 flew nose-up while the C337 flew nose-down. In the C336 it depended on the rigging and -CMY flew "level". However, the loss in payload [you can all stop laughing right here!!:=] with the weight of the swing-door conversion meant that -CMY wasn't a good producer of revenue.

OTOH, having had "possession" of -GKY during the Chimbu upgrade, I'm gobsmacked at Tinnie's shot of her in that avant garde livery!!:eek: I can't believe that it would be viable to do a job like that on such an old airframe.

G'day ;)

Yes, I had figured that out! PF, GKY is in Victoria. Can you remember what the rego of DL's 337 (the one that LM did the wheels up at YPAF in) - I can't think what it was.

DF.

PF:GKY is parked at Moorabbin, right next to the aircraft I often fly, with the same Aussie flag livery as indicated above.

Go and give it pat next time you see it QSK
There wouldnt be a plane on Moorabbin seen the combat duty that old girl has.

I knew there was a photty
CMY at Mendi in the days I would have been flying it
Feather #3, it probably flew that way because the ginger beers had put the wings on wrong.

Edit: You can see the rear engine hinges. Diligently inspected by me before each flight :uhoh:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ymendi70-1.jpg

Thanks Dennis Gray

Photo compliments Denis Gray

Have not seen Denis for close to 40 years.
He had a surf board called " Honry " by memory and a MG or similiar.
Last time I saw him he was swatting up with the CCA self study books.

That certainly doesn't look anything like the Mendi of today!

Thats the TAL " terminal" in the background. TAL at the time had a 206, 207, 185, 336 and Baron based there
It was a fine little community, the only rat-baggery came from the TAL pilots! !

Tin, I will certainly do that for you this arvo. Any messages, memories or "sweet nothings" I should convey to the old girl on your behalf?

Yeah, say remember the time we arrived in a fogged in Usino circuit, landed shut the rear engine down, chucked out the pax cranked up and buggered off into the fog again?
Bugger. By an unfortunate stroke of luck, the two unseen white guys waiting on the side of the strip for the weather to lift so they could depart, were DCA examiners. :(

They must have been peeved 'cos you didn't offer them a lift...

...but it all turned out ok. One of the two, Jasper Maskelin had to dispatch himself from POM to Madang for a few days in The Smugglers Inn, to check me out, and drink an awful lot of SP....:rolleyes: