Aviation aritfact

Found in the Murchison Museum was this seat from the wreckage of the DH84 Dragon ZK-AHT which crashed on Mount Hope on 30-06-1944 with the loss of two passengers and injuries to three others.

The placard reads:-

"Seat cut out of the

Air Travel (NZ) Ltd's

Dragon aircraft ZK-AHT

which crashed on the

slopes of Mount Hope

on June 30th, 1944.

Cpt Bert Mercer and

Mr Maurice Dawe died

in the crash.

On December 16th 1994

a plaque and cairn were

unveiled at Kawatiri,

which remembered those

who lost their lives,

& also marked the

60th anniversary of the

first scheduled air

service in the country."