After having been for sale for quite some time, the Kiwi Thunder Group's Thunder Mustang ZK-TMG has been sold and it was cancelled from the New Zealand register on 2/5/19. It has been sold to the USA and will be re-assembled in Colorado Springs, CO.
Photo from the Dennis Thompson website.
The Kiwi Thunder Group has/had their own Facebook page and Simon Gault has posted a farewell video at https://www.facebook.com/si.gault/videos/2000845433345988/
So when I was at Ardmore last week I took this photo of its old hangar for old times sake:
I was fortunate to be at Ardmore for the Thunder Mustang's first flight on 12/3/05 and it sure was an impressive machine! There is a really nice You Tube video of the aircraft in action at Tokoroa at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830BUm1UvkI
Thanks Kiwi Thunder for the memories!
It was listed in the US on 02-05-2019 as N760TM to David Wills of Sylvania, Ohio.
ReplyDeleteMuch work to be done, but will enter in Oshkosh competitions next year. I know it was a beloved airplane in New Zealand and we’ll take very good care of it over here.
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How’s it going over there.. still miss it here.
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