Alpine Fighter Collection's Dakota ZK-AWP

[Dave Homewood]

In around April 1993 the AFC purchased Dakota ZK-AWP when it was retired from Fieldair.

How long it it remain in their ownership? And what did they do with it? Was it flown at any airshows or flypasts, etc under their auspices? I heard a rumour it might have been purchased just to get the two engines to support other projects, but don't know if that was true. Any details on that period of its history would be welcome, thanks.

[nzompilot]

CAA wbsite shows the history of AWP as follows
Action Date - Effect Date - Ownership
27/08/93 - 13/05/1993 - Alpine Fighter Collection
11/03/1994 - 22/02/1994 - Classic Air
14/12/1995 - 20/08/1995 - Mackley Aviation Limited
28/08/1998 - 15/08/1998 - NZ Aerial Mapping (Historic Flight)
05/07/2000 - 16/06/2000 - Pionair Adventures Limited
21/12/2001 - 08/11/2001 - Future Flight Limited
25/05/2002 - 22/05/2002 - Pionair Adventure Limited
21/11/2005 Deregistered

So it spent about a year with the Alpine Fighter Collection

[Dave Homewood]

How do those dates work? they work backwards going left to right. I'm confused

[nzompilot]

Action date to the left and effect date to the right - so the date on the left is when the action occured at CAA and the date on the right is the date it actually took effect - so generally things happened before the paperwork was processed by CAA - if that helps any.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks, that makes more sense.

[Peter Lewis]

Classic Air Services Ltd., Palmerston North bought the aircraft from Fieldair in October 1986, and it was transferred from them to Alpine in 1993.
I understand that it was leased to Classic Air by AFC prior to February 1994.
The new company name was Classic Air Ltd.
Did the original Classic Air Services Limited fold? This could explain the transaction through Alpine.