A development from Question time # 130

The original posting for Question time # 130 showed the photo below of two Cessna 185's tied down at the Mount Cook windbreak.We were trying to identify them.
See the original eight comments below.

8 comments:

Ian said...

Have a feeling the closest has the same colour scheme as the one lost in an accident 1963ish...
Other one CKP/KT ?
Not much help I know.

16 June 2011 5:06 AM

Anonymous said...

The closest aircraft is ZK-CEW; I,m still checking the other aircraft.

18 June 2011 11:41 AM

Wildwing said...

Chj and ckp

18 June 2011 2:21 PM

Ian said...

Think CHJ had the latter factory scheme - ZK-CEW was the one that lost in '65 [I was a few years out]

21 June 2011 9:06 PM

Ian said...

         Talking of CHJ...CVG in background Franz Josef G. 1969
         Notice anything unusual about them :-)
         Lousy Polaroid but glad I took it.

23 June 2011 4:58 PM

Blue Bussaid...

No spinners & are the skis up !

What else ??

23 June 2011 7:01 PM

Ian said...

Spinners were off most of the time then but yes the skis are up as the glacier was very smooth and icy so we landed on the wheels and taxied around :-)

24 June 2011 12:07 AM

Wildwing said...

From photos I have CEW and CKP.

24 June 2011 11:15 AM

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Well now -  Ian has sent in a copy of an old post card (below) which shows ZK-CEW in a red, white and bare metal factory scheme.

So where does that leave us for an identity for the blue. white and bare metal 185 in the original pic ?

Below is a "blow up" of the red 185, with ZK-CEW plainly visible !

Nice to see it on the old strip below the Hermitage, along the road to White Horse.