AshVegas

  I called in on the Ashburton Aviation Museum on Thursday and found three surprise additions to their collection.

The restored Lincoln Sorts ZK-BMV has been assembled in the main hangar beside the DC-3 ZK-AMY.

For more on this aircraft see :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2010/06/question-time-101-resolved.html

Below is the Piper PA-22-150 TriPacer ZK-CPJ (c/n 22-3592). This was originally registered in NZ as ZK-BLC on 30-01-1956. More on this one in a later posting.

It was withdrawn and cancelled on 26-02-2014.

 Third surprise was the Compton Gyrocopter Gyro Gnat ZK-RLC (c/n 001).

I suspect this is a rebuild/redesign of the original L A Compton Cyclone ZK-RCE.

It has never flown and was withdrawn from the register and cancelled on 23-11-2012

Again- more in a later posting.

Recently collected from its Rangitata Island storage was the Percival P.44 Proctor 5 ZK-AQK (c/n Ae.79 ). This awaits its turn in the restoration hangar.

See recent post at :- 

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/question-time-168-proctor-zk-aqk.html#comment-form

 

 On display was the tidy looking ex Burmese military Percival P.56 Provost UB232 (f/n PAC/F/451)

More at these two earlier posts :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/ashburtons-percival-provost.html

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/more-ashburton-provost-shots.html

Filling space in the restoration hangar was the Beechcraft 77 Skipper ZK-ESC (c/n WA-175).

Check out :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2011/01/on-delivery-to-ashburton-aviation.html