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Post by Bruce on Jan 11, 2016 17:39:22 GMT 12
Its a bit hard to tell from this angle - Its quite hard to pick what the top Longerons do! Looking at the bay between the back of the door opening and the angled rear cabin bulkhead I think it could well be an ag machine.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 11, 2016 19:40:22 GMT 12
I'm no Cub expert,but is that a real Cub fuselage.Looking at pictures of Super Cub airframes on google images they appear to be much more robust than this one.Could this be a microlight replica cub airframe?.
Ag Cubs had a hatch on top of the fuselage for the loader driver to ride behind the hopper,just behind the wings trailing edge,so it cant have any longerons in the way so the driver can get in and out.Also they used to have a foot hold on the side of the fuselage for the driver to climb up.
Some Ag Cubs also had the fuselage widened.
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Post by eieio on Jan 12, 2016 18:51:03 GMT 12
The remains stashed at Te Awamutu appears to be BTC and its rotten
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Post by Bruce on Jan 12, 2016 19:25:04 GMT 12
This one...  |
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Post by isc on Jan 12, 2016 21:20:37 GMT 12
The first aircraft that I got my hands on when I started with Rex Aviation, at Taieri at the beginning of 1965 was PA-18A ZK-BTJ, my job, stand on head down hopper, and scrape out the excess super, then clean the hopper box. I then learned how to clean spark plugs, so endeth the first day.
It was a bit upsetting, when in June, James Ferguson was killed at Island Block Airstrip when he pulled up to clear HT lines, BTJ was burnt out. isc
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Post by nobody on Jan 16, 2016 13:56:38 GMT 12
During my visit to the Classic Flyers museum at Tauranga last weekend, I was shown the skeleton of a Piper Cub of unknown origin as seen here:  Now the question - is this the mortal remains of ZK-BTC (as discussed earlier in this thread)? Is it at least possible to decide if this is an AgCub or a ClubCub from this skeleton? Peter, That is an Ag-Cub frame. One can tell from the rear cabin top-deck structure. My understanding is that that frame came from ZK-BKH. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 16, 2016 17:31:17 GMT 12
Which is still current?
(not impossible, I know, but just querying).
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Post by nobody on Jan 17, 2016 9:52:48 GMT 12
Which is still current? (not impossible, I know, but just querying). They put a new fuselage frame in it. The one removed (pictured) was beyond economic repair. Quite a few Super Cubs in New Zealand do not have the original fuselage frames in them. And many that do, do not have many original tubes left in them by now! |
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 17, 2016 10:04:10 GMT 12
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Post by 185skywagon on Feb 12, 2016 21:35:45 GMT 12
This one... Is that BTC ? Anyone know who owns it and where it is ? |
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Post by Bruce on Feb 13, 2016 9:43:25 GMT 12
Best we can tell its BTC. Don't know who owns it, but its at the Golf Rd Airstrip in Kihikihi.
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nobody
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Post by nobody on Feb 14, 2016 7:17:50 GMT 12
Yes, it's definitely BTC.
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Post by gtw on Feb 15, 2016 12:34:33 GMT 12
I flew BTC in Oct 1963 for Glen Murray Topdressing, I left it an better condition that.The tyres are flat
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Post by delticman on Feb 15, 2016 13:13:04 GMT 12
The tyres have been flat for longer than you flew it.
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Post by gtw on Feb 16, 2016 12:48:59 GMT 12
Yes only flew it for 3 months Oct to Dec
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Post by brianallen on Mar 12, 2016 1:21:21 GMT 12
Wow. My first-ever commercial "seat!" |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Apr 11, 2020 11:01:31 GMT 12
ZK-BYW under conversion?  |
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Post by thomarse on May 1, 2020 14:08:58 GMT 12
That's interesting - I didn't realise BYW ever had a can in her. Who rebuilt BPB to become BYW?
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Post by planewriting on May 1, 2020 15:42:50 GMT 12
That's interesting - I didn't realise BYW ever had a can in her. Who rebuilt BPB to become BYW? BYV ex ZK-BOW 18-6219 and BYW ex ZK-BPB 18-6170 were both registered to Airwork(NZ) Ltd Christchurch on 1 Feb 1962 and this is substantiated by the above BYW photo being outside the Airwork hangar. I would therefore expect it was Airwork who did both rebuilds. With a rego like that I would have thought it had a wine bottle rather than a can. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 3, 2020 1:09:33 GMT 12
That's interesting - I didn't realise BYW ever had a can in her. Who rebuilt BPB to become BYW? Airwork at Christchurch rebuilt ZK-BPB as ZK-BYW, and registered it as such on 1Feb1962. They sold it to the Canterbury Aero Club in March 1966. Proof positive that it was used by Airwork as an AgCub:  |
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