A nice day at North Shore Airfield today saw some interesting aircraft out and about, or in hangars.
The Smith/Lynch Syndicate Yak 52 ZK-YAX taxied out for a type rating. And there was another Yak parked on the field - the Yak 18T ZK-SSR visiting from Nelson.
Being assembled in the Smith Tech Air hangar was Beagle Pup ZK-PVP, which was registered to J R Faulkner of Wellington on 4/4/11. It is ex G-AXIF and must have been in an air race sometime in its life.
And a nice surprise was when Peter Beck pulled his ERCO Ercoupe 415 ZK-AQX out of the hangar, also for a type rating. It has interesting canopy door mechanism where the canopy doors come up out of the fuselage sides and close together at top centre. This photo shows the canopy open.
While this shows it closed. ZK-AQX has a long and interesting history that was well documented by Flyernzl in his post http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2009/07/erco-ercoupe-415c-1-zk-aqx.html
The Smith/Lynch Syndicate Yak 52 ZK-YAX taxied out for a type rating. And there was another Yak parked on the field - the Yak 18T ZK-SSR visiting from Nelson.
Being assembled in the Smith Tech Air hangar was Beagle Pup ZK-PVP, which was registered to J R Faulkner of Wellington on 4/4/11. It is ex G-AXIF and must have been in an air race sometime in its life.
And a nice surprise was when Peter Beck pulled his ERCO Ercoupe 415 ZK-AQX out of the hangar, also for a type rating. It has interesting canopy door mechanism where the canopy doors come up out of the fuselage sides and close together at top centre. This photo shows the canopy open.
While this shows it closed. ZK-AQX has a long and interesting history that was well documented by Flyernzl in his post http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2009/07/erco-ercoupe-415c-1-zk-aqx.html 
How poignant to see G-AXIF so far from home and with a new registration... I flew this aircraft extensively when it belonged to Tayside Aviation Limited at Dundee, Scotland. I hope the new owner takes care of ZK-PVP, as it now is, and has as much fun as I and my friends had in her.
ReplyDeleteMichael J. Harrold.
How poignant to see G-AXIF so far from home and with a new registration... I flew this aircraft extensively when it belonged to Tayside Aviation Limited at Dundee, Scotland. I hope the new owner takes care of ZK-PVP, as it now is, and has as much fun as I and my friends had in her.
ReplyDeleteMichael J. Harrold.
I remember seeing G-AXIF racing at Bembridge IOW in the Kings Cup Airrace.It would be good to see an air race in NZ one day
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