Wittman Tailwind ZK-RET Returns Home

In Blue Bus's last post from Classic Fighters at Omaka he posted a photo of Wittman Tailwind ZK-RET in a new colour scheme.  It occurred to me that this was a home-coming as the Tailwind first flew from Omaka on 20 December 1980.  Here is a link to its history: https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2013/05/wittman-w8-tailwinds-of-new-zealand.html

This photo, taken at Omaka,  is scanned from the July 1981 Sport Flying magazine.

To add the ownership history of the aircraft after the above link, the aircraft was re-designated as a Class 2 Microlight on 6/9/13 when owned by Bill Izard.  Bill the sold it to the GA Partnership of Belfast on 26/1/16 and it quickly went to ACK Farming of Kaiapoi on 3/5/16, and then most recently to Service Brands Ltd (Andrew Kebbell) of Kaiapoi on 28/9/18.