A visit to North Shore airfield on Saturday produced Wilga ZK-PZN in the Aero Club hangar. Although it has quite a history around the North Shore, this was the first time that I have seen it there.
The PZL-104 Wilga (Wilga is Polish for Golden Oriole - that must be a strange looking bird), is manufactured by CNSPL Panstwowe Zaklady Lornicze (that's why we say PZL!), of Warsaw in Poland. It is a large 4 seater STOL aircraft that was in production from 1962 to 2006. You can see the STOL wing features in the photo.
ZK-PZN (c/n 140548) is a Model 35 with an Ivchenko AI-14 radial engine, and was first registered in the UK as G-BHUN to Wladslaw Radwonsk of Lasham on 12/5/80. It was damaged in a storm on 23/7/87 and stored until it was sold to Boguslaw Jerzy Szulc of Walsall on 19/7/91. It was cancelled from the UK register on12/9/91 and returned to Poland for refurbishing.
It was imported into New Zealand by Alternate Aviation (Dougall Dallison)of Taupo, and it was first registered on 11/5/92. It was assembled at Ardmore and sold to Aeroplan of Albany on 14/5/93. It was then sold to K E Scott & Associates of Rangiora on 31/10/94, with whom it was damaged in a heavy landing at Pyramid Valley in North Canterbury on 15/1/95. It then returned to the North Shore with NZ Aerial Mapping of Albany on 1/10/99. Next it went to Maruia River Lodge of Murchison on 31/5/01 and then back to Go Pix of Auckland on 24/11/09. Finally it was sold to the Yak 52 Syndicate of North shore on 29/5/10.
Thanks to Blue Bus for all the info!
The PZL-104 Wilga (Wilga is Polish for Golden Oriole - that must be a strange looking bird), is manufactured by CNSPL Panstwowe Zaklady Lornicze (that's why we say PZL!), of Warsaw in Poland. It is a large 4 seater STOL aircraft that was in production from 1962 to 2006. You can see the STOL wing features in the photo.
It was imported into New Zealand by Alternate Aviation (Dougall Dallison)of Taupo, and it was first registered on 11/5/92. It was assembled at Ardmore and sold to Aeroplan of Albany on 14/5/93. It was then sold to K E Scott & Associates of Rangiora on 31/10/94, with whom it was damaged in a heavy landing at Pyramid Valley in North Canterbury on 15/1/95. It then returned to the North Shore with NZ Aerial Mapping of Albany on 1/10/99. Next it went to Maruia River Lodge of Murchison on 31/5/01 and then back to Go Pix of Auckland on 24/11/09. Finally it was sold to the Yak 52 Syndicate of North shore on 29/5/10.
Thanks to Blue Bus for all the info!
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