The Cessna 172R Skyhawk ZK-WUM c/n 17281235 from the New Zealand International Commercial Pilots Academy was tied town at Nelson Airport on Monday afternoon having flown in from its Whanganui base the previous day via the Wairau Valley and St Arnaud.
I am guessing that it will be looking for a new home shortly !
This airframe was cranked out at the Wichita, Kansas, Cessna Aircraft Co plant, registered as N65963, and shunted off to Australia where it became VH-BZJ2 with the Singapore Flying College Ltd at Jandakot, West Australia.
For some reason it was re-registered as 9V-FCH in February of 2010 to the Singapore Flying College PTE Ltd and still operated from the same West Australian base.
It was transferred back to the Australian register as VH-YUS3 on 18-03-2016, still with the same operator.
Above is a photo of VH-YUS taken at Jandakot by Simon Coates on 24-09-2017.
It along with a couple of its hangar mates (VH-YUB and VH-YUN) were sold on to Airflite Pty Ltd of Perth from 06-04-2022. All three were then sold to Peter Hughes of Randwick, NSW and Bryan Bedwell of New Plymouth on 04-09-2024
They were ferried out of Jandakot (Perth) on 02-09-2024 and reached Wanganui on the 7th.
See previous mention HERE
Heya! This aircraft (ZK-WUM) was tied down as it had a technical issue on its flight into Nelson, due to which another academy aircraft (ZK-WUN) flew in IFR to pick up the student who flew ZK-WUM. Not yet for sale XD!
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