Missing Log Books - F.27 ZK-RTA

[ron]

This aircraft is now on display at the Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra. Since the aeroplane was acquired in 2008, I have searched Australia, NZ and the UK for the aircraft log books and despite locating a large quantity of component records, the airframe log books were thought to have been destroyed. Just this week, the Australian log books were located and these are now in the hands of QAM. This leaves a gap in log book coverage from 1990 to 1996 when the aircraft operated in NZ as ZK-RTA. Given this recent discovery, I am encouraged to ask again if anyone in NZ knows where these logs might be. Any leads will be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Ron

[ron]

I'm pleased to advise that the records for ZK-RTA have been located. One interesting fact to emerge from them is that when Rex Aviation applied to register the aeroplane in NZ they asked for 3 registrations of which RTA was their third choice. The others were ZK-DJM or DJC. Given that RTA stood for Ross T. Allen does anyone know the significance of their first two choices?

Rgds
Ron

[scrooge]

great news. Where were they?

[ron]

Where were they?

A lot closer to home than expected.