Allan Churn has sent this photo taken yesterday of his two ex NZ aircraft in his hangar.
The Sud Aviation Gardan GY-80 Horizon 150 ZK-CLK c/n 71 departed Kaitaia for Norfolk Island on 13-11-1999 continuing on to Western Australia to become VH-YOG on 18-01-2000 with Blair Howie of the Bunbury Airport Flying School. It was moved on to Dennis Coxall of East Bunbury from 29-09-2008 and then sold to Allan Churn of Ferndale from 22-06-2009 and based at the Serpentine Airfield (south Perth).
It has not flown since the start of covid but is just now coming out of hibernation to have an ADS-B transponder fitted followed by an engineering check before getting back into the air.
It has not flown since the start of covid but is just now coming out of hibernation to have an ADS-B transponder fitted followed by an engineering check before getting back into the air.
Previous blog post here :- https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/search?q=zk-clk
His other aircraft on the left of the above photo is the Macchi MB308 previously ZK-MDF c/n 79/5852. This is of 1947 Italian vintage and was originally registered as I-AHDF until its listing in NZ on 01-10-1998.
It was cancelled from the NZ register as exported to Australia on 17-09-2002 and the Australian registration of VH-MBZ was pencilled in for it. Instead it was listed onto the RAAus register as 24-5431 and first flew as such on 17-08-2008 with Allan Churn. It was cocooned after its right wingtip was damaged in a take off incident on 04-07-2009 and it has not flown since and is currently listed for sale.
More on ZK-MDF here :- https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2010/07/answer-to-question-time-104.html
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