More BD 5 Stuff

Following on from my post about Peter Sheehan's BD 5B at Ardmore, I detailed the BD 5 airframes that were registered or had registrations reserved - they amounted to 9 airframes but I understand that at least 38 kits were imported into New Zealand.  I have a couple of other photos of one of these other BD 5s:

I believe this airframe was purchased by a guy at Orewa but he didn't make any progress with it.  Eventually it ended up with Ralph Sanson at Warkworth who built is as a non flying airframe as in the above photo, with a fixed nosewheel and short wings, and no engine.  It was towed on a trailer in the Warkworth Show Day parade in 1991 with a large CO2 fire extinguisher mounted inside the fuselage to give the occasional burst of spectacular jet thrust!  (Ralph later went on the build Zenith CH 701 ZK-ZAR).

Later it was painted in Pepsi colours and entered in other parades, as in this photo which was probably in an Orewa Christmas parade.