A surprise at Motueka on the 27th February was the De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver Mk1 ZK-FPZ c/n 717 as listed with Venture Aviation Ltd of Taupo since late March of 1988.
And in a non all white scheme.
It carries Taupo Sport Skydivers script on its fin/rudder.
Well caught by CMM on the Nelson Aviation College tie downs
Below is a copy of an earlier post on ZK-FPZ.
De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver Mk1 , c/n 717 , was built as an L-20A for the U.S. Army and had a build date of 01-11-1954. It was allocated the US military serial of 53-7909.
Following military service it entered the US Civil register as N6474 in about 1972 listed with the Texas State Technical Institute at Amarillo, Texas.
Some other operators that I know about were Joe Vaughn Spraying Inc of Kress, Texas; D Wright at Anchorage, Alaska from 09-02-1979; D Carrell in Alaska from 17-06-1980, with a change of registration to N93DC in August 1980 - still with D Carrell and trading as Alaska Travel Air.
It reverted back to N6474 in February of 1982 for Kennedy Air Services of Cordova, Alaska.
Below : Two views of ZK-FPZ at Picton Harbour on 22-05-1989.
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On 22-03-1990 it was overturned by high winds and sank in Picton Harbour. Rebuilt by Arc Aviation (Keith Newton & Jack Lamb) at Taupo to fly again on 16-08-1991, as a land plane. It then served with Mid Island Aviation Ltd of Taupo from 16-08-1991 and then Tandem Corp and then to Venture Aviation Ltd from 31-03-1998.
ZK-FPZ at Taupo on 03-03-2008. (Sorry about that pink thing).
That pink thing is lovely as it was painted as recognition as a great contribution of women in farming
ReplyDeleteThat’s in-correct, it was painted pink when it came out of the factory to go to a dropzone in Victoria VH-MOS. It was then imported to NZ to a dropzone before being sold to an Ag operator who decided to make the recognition to farming woman as opposed to painting it.
DeleteI never new that. Nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks