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Post by zman280 on Apr 28, 2010 16:09:13 GMT 12
Is there any kits for the D.H.6 available?
This was the first aircraft to land in in Gisborne 13/05/1920
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 28, 2010 17:03:16 GMT 12
Who owned the DH6?
I know the NZPAF had DH4's and DH9's, never heard of DH6's in NZ.
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Post by zman280 on Apr 28, 2010 17:15:14 GMT 12
The New Zealand Flying School it was flowing by Lt Jimmy Woods
It is in the Richard J. Waugh book Early Risers
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 28, 2010 17:58:22 GMT 12
Cheers. I never knew they had one.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 28, 2010 20:14:32 GMT 12
'The' Airco DH6 Imported from RAF/Air Council stocks Feb1920 by Stan Hatten, Ormond, Gisborne when he returned from war service. Was a three-seater. F/f NZ Kohimarama 22Feb20 NZ Flying School Ltd., Kohimarama bought the aircraft for £400 March 1920 (I have no record of Hatten flying it - was he aircrew?). The Hatten family ran a omnibus service Ormond-Gisborne at that time. Became NZFS 'H' Made 1st Auckland-Hamilton flight 9Apr20, J Woods. The aircraft then worked its way south via Gisborne to Wellington. While at Wellington DBR in overnight gale Hutt Park, Wellington, 25/26Aug20. Remains returned to Auckland and stored at Kohimarama. Sold NZ Government as part of the takeover of NZFS 30Aug24. Presumably burnt Kohimarama Beach Jan25 along with the others. The thing we don't know is the RAF identity of this DH6 - anybody?  |
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Post by ZacYates on Oct 26, 2020 19:33:21 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 26, 2020 20:01:57 GMT 12
As far as I am aware, the DH6 never displayed any serial.
I believe that it was allotted the NZFS letter 'H' but even this appears never to have been pained on the aircraft.
Presumably Hatten bought the airframe directly from one of the many DH6 subcontract manufacturers rather than from UK Air Council surplus stocks, so no serial may ever have been allotted.
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Post by errolmartyn on Oct 26, 2020 22:52:52 GMT 12
'The' Airco DH6 Imported from RAF/Air Council stocks Feb1920 by Stan Hatten, Ormond, Gisborne when he returned from war service. Was a three-seater. F/f NZ Kohimarama 22Feb20 NZ Flying School Ltd., Kohimarama bought the aircraft for £400 March 1920 (I have no record of Hatten flying it - was he aircrew?). The Hatten family ran a omnibus service Ormond-Gisborne at that time. Gisborne-born 57223 Sergeant Thomas Stanley Hatten served with the NZEF in the latter part of the war. He came back to New Zealand from England on the Rimutaka, embarking at Liverpool on 8 Nov 19 and disembarking at Wellington on 5 Jan 20 and was discharged on 2 Feb 20. He died at Gisborne on 26 Aug 71. His NZEF file can be viewed online through Archives NZ Archway website. He was never aircrew nor, it seems, even attached in any capacity to the RFC or RAF during his NZEF service. Errol |
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Post by ZacYates on Oct 26, 2020 23:14:26 GMT 12
While searching for something else I happened upon this artefact in the MOTAT collection: what looks like part of a rib, possibly the only surviving piece of The DH.6? collection.motat.org.nz/objects/21709 |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 27, 2020 0:02:19 GMT 12
Gisborne-born 57223 Sergeant Thomas Stanley Hatten . . . was never aircrew nor, it seems, even attached in any capacity to the RFC or RAF during his NZEF service. Errol And apparently never flew the DH6 (though he may have gone up as a passenger) Possibly he had ideas of extending the family transport business up into the air? |
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Post by ZacYates on Oct 31, 2020 13:58:07 GMT 12
(Perhaps all this important historical info needs its own thread?) The History of New Zealand Aviation (Ewing, Macpherson) has a little to say on The DH.6 on pg62 but nothing that hasn't been covered here, as wel as this lovely photo on the following page:  NZ DH6 Gisborne via Ross McKelvie by Zac Yates, on Flickr |
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