Ex OY-ECM. Tony Arbon photo

Dinner companion at Middlebrook. This aircraft has a long and interesting history, having been originally built to a 1951 USAF order as an L-18C Super Cub, 51-15414. It later went to the French Army as 181414, then was civilianised in Germany as D-EGWS before going to Denmark as OY-ECM and finally Australia as VH-ECN on 15 January 1981.

A long way from home, OY-ECM did not make the return flight, becoming VH-ECN instead. Was owned by Norwegian helicopter pilot Erik Wegger. Danish reg as he worked in Greenland.He flew from the North Cape in Norway to Australia; then more or less coast-wise around that continent, before settling there.