The Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee Archer II ZK-EBZ c/n 28-7790262 arrived in NZ in March 1977 and was registered to Airwork (NZ) Ltd of Ardmore on 24-08-1977.
And then to the Canterbury Aero Club from 07-11-1977.
EBZ at Christchurch on 24-01-1978.
It took up permanent residence at Ashburton in late April of 1985 - briefly with the Ashburton Flying Syndicate - before being listed to H R Evans, T I Coulter and M J Cooper in July that year.
It officially joined the South Canterbury Aero Club from 23-05-1990.
At Ashburton on 10-07-1991.
Note the large MCAC door logo.
It underwent a repaint and lost its Piper factory scheme and came out as below.
Photo above shows it at Ashburton on 18-12-2011in its new scheme including the 'non standard'
registration markings.
On the 12-05-2025 it was flow down to Taieri to South Air Ltd for some serious TLC and a repaint and it returned to Ashburton on 19-09-2025
As seen below on 27-09-2025 thanks to Aaron Murphy.
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