Later in the afternoon last Saturday at Dargaville a turbine Fletcher appeared downwind. I thought it would be ZK-JLU which had been the resident Fletcher when I was last there.
ZK-CBA (c/n 81) was built up by TEAL at Mechanics Bay in during 1962 and was first flown from Hobsonville . It was later delivered to Hamilton for Robertson Air Service Ltd as fleet number 10 and was fitted with a Continental 0-470N of 260 HP. Major airframe mods came when Robertson Air Service converted it to a FU-24-950M which also included a large cargo door in July 1979. It joined the Super Air fleet and it's next major modification was the fitting of a Walter M601D in 1999. Yet another conversion and stretch for the PT6A-34AG in October 2011.
And down at the Super Air tie down area was another PT6A equipped FU-24-950M, ZK-JQB (c/n 156). Delticman advises that it was one of the dismantled FU-24-950's that Super Air purchased from
Fieldair Engineering. It was rebuilt as a stretched PT-6A-34AG version and
first flown in April 2010.
Actually it turned out to be ZK-CBA.
Thanks to Delticman, its history is as follows:
ZK-CBA (c/n 81) was built up by TEAL at Mechanics Bay in during 1962 and was first flown from Hobsonville . It was later delivered to Hamilton for Robertson Air Service Ltd as fleet number 10 and was fitted with a Continental 0-470N of 260 HP. Major airframe mods came when Robertson Air Service converted it to a FU-24-950M which also included a large cargo door in July 1979. It joined the Super Air fleet and it's next major modification was the fitting of a Walter M601D in 1999. Yet another conversion and stretch for the PT6A-34AG in October 2011.
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