This aircraft arrived in NZ on 04-04-1979 as N9526Z and became ZK-SSS on 08-06-1979 with NZ Aerospace Industries Ltd of Hamilton.
Pic below at Hamilton on03-09-1979.
It was delivered to the Waikato Aero Club and listed with them from 08-06-1979. Air Hamilton Flying Properties feature from 19-08-81 and then C R & B E Bowden from 23-11-83.
As seen at New Plymouth on 12-02-1985.
By 10-07-89 it was with the Napier Aero Club, remaining there until 15-06-94 when Airline Flying Club appear in the paperwork. By April 1995 it was at the N.Z Aviation College (Ardmore) Ltd and then to the Auckland Aero Club on 18-09-95.
It returned to C R Bowden in September 1996 before moving to the Tauranga Aero Club on 23-12-96. On this same day it was re-registered as ZK-TAD.
It remained as ZK-TAD at Tauranga until sold to Paul & Philippa Hally of Christchurch on 01-06-2006.
It remained as ZK-TAD at Tauranga until sold to Paul & Philippa Hally of Christchurch on 01-06-2006.
Paul & Philippa re-registered it using their initial to make it ZK-PAP on 13-07-06. At the end of August 2006 it officially joined the Christchurch Flying School (2005) Ltd at Wigram. A name change to New Zealand Flying School Ltd took place on 21-07-2008..JPG)
In December of 2008 it was flown to Timaru, where the NZFS were having their maintenance carried out at Avtek, and during the course of an inspection corrosion was discovered.
In December of 2008 it was flown to Timaru, where the NZFS were having their maintenance carried out at Avtek, and during the course of an inspection corrosion was discovered.I believe it never flew again. [There was talk of a ferry flight up north but ?].
Corrosion on the main spar I believe. That was the end of it then and there. It did have one last flight a couple of weeks ago being ferried up to Christchurch where it joined the Air NZ engineering training place...
ReplyDeleteThanks for that cessna185.
ReplyDeleteNice to know where it dissapeared to.
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