Ceres

[emron]

Jan 21, 2010 18:52:26 GMT 12 curtiss said:

Hi,

I purchased ZK BZO from the Silverstream Museum when it closed down. I was intending to rebuild it as a Wirraway but got interested in other aircraft and sold it in Australia in 1993. Nobody in NZ was interested in it at the time.

Attached are Ceres production lists for anyone who is interested in tracking the aircraft.

Mike, fresh from replaying the video of footage filmed at Silverstream in 1981, I’m curious as to what happened to the wings shown from BZO. Did you pick them up later with the project?
Geoff Goodall’s website states that the wings of Ceres ZK-BXW were also noted at Silverstream in 1987, stacked alongside the fuselage of BZO. What became of them?

[curtiss]

When I collected the aircraft I got BZO's wings - at that stage the aircraft was at Gracefield in a storage facility. There were no extra wings there.

[emron]

Thanks Mike, I’m sure you would have sniffed them out if they were ever around there. I’d love to think there is still some truth in Goodall’s info, but sadly, now more likely they along with the fabled extra pair at MOTAT have long ago vanished up the Great smelter chimney in the sky.