Monday 28 April 2014

Darfield Wings and Wheels.

Mr and Mrs CMM were at Charlie Draper's strip near Darfield during the weekend for the annual Wings and Wheels fund raising fly-in.
There were five Piper Cubs and a near relative on hand.
 ZK-BKX is c/n 18-4864 and is Fred Bull's Cub from Waddington.
 ZK-BNJ c/n 18-5063 is the nearby Mountain View Farms Cub.
 The Canterbury Aero Clubs ZK-BNL (c/n 18-5152) came over from Christchurch International.
 From Rangiora was the Fern Air Syndicated ZK-CXC (c/n 18-6202).
 Also from Waddington came the Piper L-18C ZK-KEZ c/n 18-1628.
 The Dog - with the Cubs close cousin -  Auster J1B ZK-AYU c/n 2730 belongs to "mine host" Charlie Draper. Charlie also has the Beagle Auster A.109 Airedale ZK-CCW on site.
 The two Chippies ZK-ARL c/n 61 is Jim Chapman's whilst ZK-XUK (c/n C1-0087) [below]
is Lou McAllister's from Cust.

 Cessna 180A ZK-BUF c/n 32935 is Gary Hood's and the Cessna A185F ZK-DPF c/n 18502421 is the Brian Fechney mount.

 ZK-SGW is Gordon Whale's Cessna 172P  ( c/n 74407).
 Over from its Rangiora base was the John Ludgater in the Bell OH58A Kiowa ZK-IXL (c/n 44062).
 The amateur build aircraft included the Jabiru SP ZK-JJR (c/n 506) from the Kintore Trust.
 The Airdrome Nieuport 24 Replica ZK-MNR (c/n 1642) is Tony Scarlett's.
 Campbell Aviation had their Titan T51 ZK-MSY (c/n 0035) down from Loburn Alley.
Out and about was the Piper PA-28R-201T Turbo Arrow III ZK-TWM (28R-7803275) from Transworld Motors Christchurch Ltd out of Rangiora.
 
What were the pies like ?

A special thanks to Charlie Draper for organising this event and making his property available.

1 comment:

  1. A pie less day you can't ruin the taste of the Seddon pies to quickly CMM

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