Some shots here taken by Aaron Murphy at the Omaka Wings & Wheels event on 28-09-2025.
The De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth ZK-AJH c/n 82887 as rebuilt by Wayne Tantrum and was recently reflown after a seventy odd year layup, with Ian Pirie's ZK-APP c/n 82302 beyond.
Both served with the Royal Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force followed by time in the agricultural role.
Parked in the background is the Classic Aircraft Waco YMF-5F ZK-CFL2 c/n F5-019 of Classic Aircraft Sales Ltd.
The seldom mentioned Percival P.56 Provost T Mk1 ZK-JOT as listed with Paul Stent of Kumea.
Built for the Royal Air Force and given the WV666 seral and delivered in mid 1954.
It became an instructional airframe with the serial of 7925M in about August of 1965.
Rescued from there it popped up on the US register as N2416R in October of 1985 only to reappear in the UK as G-BTDH from 25-01-1991. This registration was cancelled in February of 2000 following an incident near Lasham on 28-03-1998.
Next we know it popped up on the NZ register as ZK-JOT on 17-04-2003 with Don Subritzky and Alan House of Auckland.
Also known as a Cessna 305 this aircraft was one of about 3400 built mainly for the US Army.
This airframe c/n 23452 is a O-1G Bird Dog and was allocated the US Army serial number of 53-8031 and later spent time with the South Vietnamese Air Force as 538031.
After its importation to NZ I believe it was initially penciled in to become ZK-FYB. (following ZK-FYA which is the drab olive one you see about occasionally).
It instead became ZK-DOG on 14-07-1994 with Mackley Aviation Ltd of Auckland.
It was out of circulation from April 1996 through until returning to the register on 03-10-2000 in the above orange scheme and listed to the Kaipara Aviation Trust.
From 02-04-2020 it was transferred to Rob Mackley.
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A new addition to the Omaka collection - as yet not on the ZK register - is this Airco DH-2 Replica built by Ernie Moreno of Independence, Oregon and registered in the US as NX292EM.
'292' being the Independence EAA chapter number and 'EM' being Ernie's initials.
It arrived by container into Omaka late March.
See HERE for photos of it in Ernie's hangar.
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