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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 16:13:06 GMT 12
BYF at Gisborne 1972  BYF being loaded at Gisborne 1978 with Bill Luther  BYF at the Gisborne Museum 6th February 2009  |
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 16:28:10 GMT 12
CAW working in the hills behind Gisborne with Basil Martin 1983  CAW retired at Palmerston North January 1985 with 3 other Daks. This DC3 had it's last flight out of Gisborne 29th October 1984, flown by Basil Martin. It had flown 56,282 hours and was positioned at McDonalds Taupo in 1990  CAW at Taupo Maccas 14th February 2009  |
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 16:53:26 GMT 12
CHV loading at Oringi 1969  CHV spreading near Masterton with Bob Cranston 1975  |
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Post by alias on Jan 23, 2010 16:54:54 GMT 12
Magnificent pictures, Mr Beaver.
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 17:04:27 GMT 12
CQA loading at Ardmore 1967  CQA loading at Gisborne 1973  CQA retired at Palmerston North 1976. Part of the fuselage behind the roof of this DC3 was used to repair AWP when the static loader at Gisborne had a hydraulic hose burst and a full hopper crashed on top of AWP, just behind Basil Martin's head!! Notes from Basil: The loading bucket through the roof of AWP occured Sat. morning Nov. 13th 1976 while about to take on second load of the day. Luckily for me , of coarse, it didn't let go one second earlier and also that the weight came down on a line between main U/C wheels, with resultant nil tendancy to tip her on her nose. Bucket came down to plywood flooring but not through it. Normal exit was completely blocked and the A/C was vacated via hatch O/H pilot's seat.  That's it for Ag Daks, what's next?  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 23, 2010 20:06:44 GMT 12
That's it for Ag Daks, what's next? How about Ag Lodestars?  ;D  |
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 20:14:05 GMT 12
Oh, alright then, here's one for now, more tomorrow. BUV loading at Gisborne 1971  |
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 23, 2010 22:27:53 GMT 12
BUV  BUV at Gisborne 1970  BUV receiving some attention. Ian Alexander at left, Curly Whitehead and Ken Webb at right  BUV at the Gisborne Museum 2006 undergoing restoration  A shoddy photo of BMC 1956  BJM at Ardmore  BVE loading at Gisborne 1968  BVE  CMX loading at Oringi 1968  That's about it for Lodestars, what's next??? |
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Post by furyfb11 on Jan 24, 2010 13:47:56 GMT 12
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Post by dakman on Jan 24, 2010 15:47:04 GMT 12
Great pics Graeme thanks for posting them
Good to see Nev Worsley featured as well
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 24, 2010 17:22:07 GMT 12
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 24, 2010 17:36:28 GMT 12
BUV 5th February 2009  |
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Post by Kereru on Jan 25, 2010 11:21:12 GMT 12
Some great pics coming through guys, keep em coming. They bring back youthful memories!
Cheers
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 25, 2010 15:13:06 GMT 12
I've got a quite a few more Daks Colin, then it might be Tigers from last year in Gisborne where we met or Beavers. Bill Luther starting AWP at Gisborne 1980  APB at Gisborne 1980  Loader-Driver Graeme Foley joins Bruce Thompson in the cockpit of BBJ for the final flight 5th May 1987  |
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Post by dakman on Jan 25, 2010 20:43:20 GMT 12
Re ZKCGV great action pics , Roger Crowe talked about this accident a while back
as he was then with with Fieldair in Napier. The aircraft is still where it sank in the Approach to Napier airport and still inverted pilot Ray Misson was a good swimmer .Ray at one time flew Fletchers for Air Contracts at Pahiatua, is he still flying ??
Roger is of course now retired and puts in hours of work with the HB Aviation group
He also was a ag pilot with Auster Air Sercices flying from Timaru
and has a few good stories to tell too
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 25, 2010 20:45:15 GMT 12
By my notes, we had 13 DC-3 that were actually used on topdressing operations:
ZK-AOI 1966-73 James/Southern Air Super Cr 23Feb73
ZK-APB 1965-81 Airland/Fieldair WFU1981
ZK-APK 1969-81 Airland/Fieldair WFU 1981
ZK-AWO 1967-84 Airland/Fieldair WFU 1984
ZK-AWP 1873-85 Southern Air Super/Fieldair Sold
ZK-AZA 1973-79 James Sold Dwen & dismantled 1983
ZK-AZL 1955-74 James/Airland/James WFU 1974
ZK-BBJ 1972-? Fieldair stored, sold 1988
ZK-BKD 1970-83 Fieldair WFU 1983
ZK-BYF 1960-81 Airland/Rural/Airland/Fieldair WFU 1981
ZK-CAW 1971-84 Fieldair WFU1984
ZK-CHV 1964-79 Airland/Fieldair WFU 1979
ZK-CQA 1966-75 James/Fieldair WFU 1975
(I understand that ZK-AOD - Fieldair 1972-76 - was never used operationally).
Any updates/corrections welcome of course.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 27, 2010 21:35:44 GMT 12
. . . and checking through, there are photos of all 13 in this thread.
Well done guys.
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jan 30, 2010 22:54:54 GMT 12
And a photo of AOD in Mt Cook scheme before she went to Fieldair and broken up for spares.  |
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Post by furyfb11 on Feb 10, 2010 10:13:48 GMT 12
Would there be any photo's of Ag-DAKS out there, especially James's aircraft? Would love to see some of AZA if anyone has the odd shot laying around! have searched older threads but could not see anything.. Found this one in the bottom drawer. AZA at Taupo 28/12/75  |
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Post by corsair67 on Feb 10, 2010 22:46:45 GMT 12
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, to all who have posted these wonderful pictures!
What a wonderful selection of images from the good old days of NZ ag aviation.
Just out of interest, how far did these AgDaks tend to operate away from base? I imagine there would have been a fair transit time between loading up and dropping the load on some of those North Island East Coast properties?
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;D 
