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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 28, 2014 11:56:55 GMT 12
Amazing what pops up on this forum. So no chance this Dauntless or bits of it are still around? Roadtrip! :-) Your “Auster” trailer would probably be too small for a Dauntless recovery road-trip....
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 28, 2014 12:12:41 GMT 12
Great photos Keith, thanks for sharing them. What a shame you just missed saving this one Don.
Some years back there was a rumour posted on the Flypast forum that someone around Auckland had several ex-RNZAF SBD's stored in a shed. I have never heard anything more.
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kiwiwreckdiver
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Post by kiwiwreckdiver on Dec 31, 2014 4:58:15 GMT 12
I remember Don Subritsky. telling me of a Auckland Uni that had a SBD buried on their property, they were gifted out to many tech departments so would imagine burring a chopped up one would have been no small task for them. Wonder what sitting under ground these day I do have a forward cockpit canopy frame from a SBD but she came out of the islands.
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Post by nicko on Jun 6, 2015 16:01:35 GMT 12
Les was my father. My brothers and I used to play in the Dauntless which was in our backyard. He never took it anywhere. It was bought for scrap and was finally removed to someone's farm I think.
He also owned a Rearwin which was kept at Mangere, then moved to Ardmore and finally to Dairy Flat before he sold it to a guy called Jerry.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jun 6, 2015 17:07:09 GMT 12
Rearwin ZK-ALF (photo earlier this thread).
Mt Nixon sold to Gerald Astley, Auckland in 1971.
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