Beavers and Beavers #5 ZK-CCY - Update

Dave Paull's original post the DHC-2 Beaver ZK-CCY can be found HERE  There is not much to add to it but I include it here as ZK-CCY was the fifth Beaver in the Fieldair fleet.  I have also sourced some different photos.

De Haviland DHC-2 Beaver c/n 1512 was delivered to De Havilland New Zealand on 06/11/62. It was registered as ZK-CCY to Fieldair Ltd of Gisborne on 26/11/62. First flown on 20/02/63, it was delivered to Gisborne on the 29th of February1963. (see comments below).

It was painted in the Fieldair blue and white scheme as in this photo taken at Gisborne on 27/11/70.

As per the other Beavers in the fleet at the time  it went through the Company changes to Fieldair Holdings (Central) Ltd at Palmerston North on 18/11/80 and to Fieldair Holdings Ltd of Palmerston North on 30/03/84.

It is photo'd above at Gisborne on 7/1/73 and below, also at Gisborne, on 9/1/80.  These Bob Kerr photos are from the AustAirData website.

It was withdrawn from use in 1985 and cancelled from the NZ register on 15/5/89 as sold abroad. 

It went to Aerial Agriculture Pty Ltd at Walcha, NSW and became VH-XIX on 10/4/90. It crashed near Guyra on 27/12/92 and was cancelled on 30/3/92 and then stored at Gilgai, NSW.

It was acquired by Frank Wright of Tauranga and the registration ZK-CCY was restored 15/12/93. Following a rebuild at (I believe) Gisborne it went to Float Air Picton Ltd from 1/6/94.  It is photo'd above at Omaka on 13/9/94.

And it is photo'd here on floats at Picton in January 1995.  It was cancelled from the New Zealand register on on 23-11-1995.  It briefly became N6246X from March until May of 1996 with M L Schmokel of St Paul, Minnesota. then on 04-06-1996 it became D-FVIP to Patricia Steber of Hamburg, Germany. It was still in floatplane mode and based on the Hamburg Harbour. 

You can see from the above photo from the dhc-2.com website that it still wore its Frank Wright colours as D-FVIP.  It was later repainted into an all blue scheme with gold cowling and rudder.  Tragically on 2/7/06 it crashed into the Hamburg railway yards with the loss of all on board - the second ex Fieldair Beaver to be lost on floats with all aboard.