Convair ZK-CIB retires to Wanaka

 The Air Chathams General Dynamics Allison Convair 440/580 ZK-CIB3 c/n 327A carried out its final Chatham Islands to Wellington and Auckland flight on 15-09-2021 by which time it had accumulated 58,769.7 airframe hours over 56,284 cycles.

It the did a final revenue run from Auckland to Invercargill and back to Auckland on 17-09-2021.

21-05-2022 was its final flight on delivery from Auckland to the National Transport and Toy Museum nest to the Wanaka Airport.

Marty Muller was on hand to record its arrival

A final fly past above.

Final approach.

The last stop and the final atmospheric wave for ZK-CIB.

We have mentioned ZK-CIB3 several time on this blog previously,  See

https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/search?q=ZK-CIB

Then drill your way down to learn more on this Convair (and the two earlier ZK-CIB's)

Also have a look at the Museum's facebook page for more coverage.

https://www.facebook.com/wanakamuseum