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Post by rbwannabe on Feb 9, 2014 13:22:12 GMT 12
Does anyone have any photos of Fox Moth AQB, in particular it's accident at Motiti Island on the 28th of June 1972?
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 9, 2014 16:24:57 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Feb 9, 2014 18:10:59 GMT 12
ZK-AQB in the big hangar at Mt Maunganui 21Oct1967  The wreck was actually bought by David Lilico, then owner of Fox ZK-ADI, before passing to Myles Robertson Under rebuild at Mandeville 3Jan2008.  As far as I know, this rebuild has not yet been completed and is still at Croydons. |
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Post by John L on Feb 9, 2014 23:34:26 GMT 12
 I think the airframe remains in the foreground is AQB - July 1977 |
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Post by Martin Wienert on Feb 12, 2014 19:38:14 GMT 12
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Post by thomarse on Feb 13, 2014 16:17:06 GMT 12
The Tauranga photo with the long-time Hangar Queen BTC in the background even way back then, poor old girl
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 15, 2016 22:45:22 GMT 12
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Post by scrooge on Jan 16, 2016 9:46:37 GMT 12
cool
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 18, 2016 15:22:08 GMT 12
Fantastic news to start the year. It sounds brilliant.
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Post by starr on Jan 19, 2016 12:43:07 GMT 12
I remember seeing Bill Paterson flying AQB the first time I was in Tauranga loading AZL in 1962. Jack Humphries was flying AZL and took Bill up for him to give Jack a briefing for his job on Motiti. Saw AQB many times after that.
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ianmcdonald
Leading Aircraftman
Have an aerial pic of the wrecage taken next morning EM me, mac@matata.co.nz
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Post by ianmcdonald on Jun 3, 2018 11:39:09 GMT 12
Does anyone have any photos of Fox Moth AQB, in particular it's accident at Motiti Island on the 28th of June 1972? |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 7, 2023 21:56:09 GMT 12
Some four years after its resurrection I have yet to see ZK-AQB out and about.
Anyone knw where it lurks (apart from 'New Plymouth')?
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Naki.
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Post by Naki. on Jan 8, 2023 6:12:23 GMT 12
It's still at the Croydon museum in Mandeville ... it was when I saw it in June
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Post by madmax on Jan 16, 2023 17:13:42 GMT 12
Still on the subject of Croydon Aviation Mandeville, does anyone know what the current situation is there? I don't recall hearing of any completed restoration project emerging from there for quite some time
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 16, 2023 21:34:02 GMT 12
In September Tiger Moth ZK-BRC emerged from there after sitting for five years, but it was not a restoration, it just needed a checkout before it flew again and went to a new owner (in the same family), Liam Beale.
That is the only thing I have heard of in ages coming out of there.
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Post by madmax on Jan 16, 2023 21:46:04 GMT 12
Thanks Dave, it certainly appears as if things have ground to a halt which is a shame given the number of relatively rare aircraft stored there in varying stages of restoration
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Post by aeromuzz on Jan 17, 2023 7:35:12 GMT 12
From what I've seen on social media, Colin Smith seems to have been concentrating on his railway interests over the last few years.
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Post by madmax on Jan 17, 2023 10:04:20 GMT 12
I wonder how the owners of the aircraft projects being restored feel about that
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