Last weekend, 14-03-2026, Rob Mackley flew his amazing Lockheed 10-A Electra ZK-AFD2 c/n 1145 down from Omaka to West Melton for the Day to give a presentation to the gathering covering the restoration of this aircraft. This has been well covered by several other sites.
This presentation by Rob attracted several other visitors.
One such was the Beechcraft A36 Bonanza ZK-ACO2 c/n E-1896. This Bonanza was built and registered to the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas and registered as N1824K in late 1981.
After two US owners it was sold in Australia and became VH-RKP2 from 28-07-1989 with Bob Kilpatrick of Windsor, NSW. (Interestingly he sold it to purchase the A36 Bonanza VH-RKP2 in December 2014 which became ZK-PVA2 in December of 2014).
The new owner from 29-01-1999 - Shoal Credit Investments Pty Ltd of Ashmore, Queensland, re-registered it as VH-WDG2 a month later. In June of 2015 it was sold to Joshua Adam of Chinchilia, Queensland.
It was ferried from Archerfield to Lord Howe Island on 25-08-2019, then to Norfolk Island, Kerekeri and Auckland the following day.
It was certified in NZ as ZK-ACO2 to Air Centre One Ground Services Ltd on 03-09-2019 until transferred to Rob Leach and Dianne Paterson of Auckland from 01-07-2021.
Current owner Andreas Michaelides of Christchurch listed it from October last year.
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The earlier allocation of the ZK-ACO registration was to a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide for the NZ Melbourne Centenary Air Race Committee - Named "Tainui" it departed Mildenhall, UK on 20-10-1934 as number 60 in the MacRobertson Air Race - It arrived in Melbourne on 02-11-1934 - finishing 5th.
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