Chopper crash on Wave Hill Station (NT)

August 6th, 2009

A helicopter crashed on Wave Hill station yesterday, but it was not a typical, relatively low-powered R22 mustering helicopter involved in station work but a very expensive turbine chopper, specifically built to carry passengers – a Bell Longranger. Presumably it had the standard Longranger seating for 7 but the chopper only contained the pilot and […]

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Buck Buchester of Wave Hill station, has died, aged 80.

May 2nd, 2009

Buck Buchester was a ringer and a gentleman who had been described by those who knew him as the most unassuming bloke they know. Buck lived and worked in the NT’s Victoria River District for most of his life, including on Wave Hill station, where he passed on his knowledge of station skills to the […]

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