Nelson Beaver may be based in Karamea

[baronbeeza]

www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/89603784/sixtyyearold-plane-ready-to-roar-back-to-life-in-nelson-skies


Sixty-year-old plane ready to roar back to life in Nelson skies

MARTIN DE RUYTER
Mark Stagg with the de Havilland Beaver aircraft he is restoring at his business, Argus Helicopters at Motueka Airport.

A classic aircraft with a "very distinctive sound" is being brought back to life to boost tourism in the region.
Argus Helicopters director Mark Stagg is overseeing the "rebirthing" of a 60-year-old De Havilland Beaver aircraft at the company's hangar at Motueka. He is being assisted by several Nelson-based companies.
Stagg sourced and hand-picked the aircraft from Sydney, and organised its importation to New Zealand on behalf of the client, Sam and Wayne Brown of Air Charter Karamea.

[kiwithrottlejockey]

To think I used to live at a place where there were a total of NINE de Havilland Canada DHC2 Beavers based (as well as THREE Douglas DC-3s).

I used to take it for granted back then....now I'd give anything to be somewhere where I had an alarm clock like the sound of all those Pratt & Whitney radial engines early in the morning again.

[joey05]

Its coming along nicely, happened to be going past Motueka airfield when they had her out for some hangar upgrades

May18 by Joe Smith, on Flickr