All is not as it seems! Originally N9911T, this Skylane was re-registered in Australia as VH-DZL(1) on 11 January 1961. Following a crash at Wilton NSW in February 1973, the aircraft was re-built as a taildragger with the tail of a Cessna 180. It was restored to the Register in this new configuration on 29 September 1980.

VH-DZL was damaged during skydiving operations at Wilton, New South Wales, in 1973. It was rebuilt with a tailwheel undercarriage and straight fin from a Cessna 180.

VH-DZL is an Australian conversion of a Cessna 182D into a taildragger that also involved replacing the tail with that from a Cessna 180. 182Ds had swept fins but not the rear cabin window of the later models, making DZL appear identical to a 180. The conversion took place after -DZL crashed in 1973 at Wilton, a skydiving centre in Sydney's south-western outskirts. It flew for the first time in its new configuration in 1980.