Incoming Cessna 180

[ron]

I have received the following from Colin Couston in the UK. He has agreed that I should post it here for the interest of NZ historians.

Regards
Ron

Our beloved Cessna 180, G-BTSM, is on the way, now, to NZ to do what she does best....
working for a living having been purchased by a Kiwi farmer based just south of Queenstown,
at Tapanui. I wish her well in the Southern Hemisphere, having come almost full circle since
the days I had her in PNG. She is in Felixstowe now and am not sure whether it is North Atlantic,
Panama Canal, NZ, or whether it is scheduled for the long way around. A sad moment really.
She will be registered ZK-TSM and I will remake my acquaintance in 2010 during Warbirds over Wanaka
and am looking forward to it mightily! In the meantime, she has been very professionally placed in
the container and is solidly braced against the travails of the oceans on the way to Port Chalmers,
Dunedin, New Zealand. If you see her on your travels, stop and have a chat with the guy who is flying
her, and tell him that you know the Scottish Pilot who looked after her so lovingly over the last 18 years.

[flyjoe180]

Good tosee another Cessna 180 on the New Zealand register. BTSM must have been one of the very few 180's in the UK.