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Post by Allen Brookes on Apr 19, 2012 6:04:18 GMT 12
Can anyone help with the ID of an Islander wreck in the background of a photo at Dairy Flats, next to ZK-LOU.
MTIA
Allen Brookes
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 19, 2012 8:00:38 GMT 12
Probably BN2A Mk.III-I Trislander ZK-LGC/1 c/n C381
To Great Barrier Airways Flight Operations Ltd., Auckland 12Aug2003 and never used operationally.
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Post by Allen Brookes on Apr 27, 2012 22:48:43 GMT 12
Thanks for the info - sorry not to have responded earlier.
Allen
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Post by scrooge on Apr 28, 2012 7:40:11 GMT 12
There is also a 'work-in-progress' Islander there too (ZK-REA?)
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Post by sqwark2k on Apr 29, 2012 17:23:48 GMT 12
REA is doing a major service, and is the current GBA Trilander ZK-LGC therefore LGC/2??
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 29, 2012 22:34:09 GMT 12
Yes.
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Post by scrooge on Apr 30, 2012 22:58:55 GMT 12
Major service? It's been out of the air for about 2-3 years or more? If you see it from airside it has been sprayed with orange graffiti.
Do you have the picture you refer to or is it just not displaying for me?
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Post by Allen Brookes on May 4, 2012 8:49:47 GMT 12
 Sorry I did not put the photo in before but forgot how to do it! Hope this works. Allen |
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Post by scrooge on May 4, 2012 9:36:15 GMT 12
Thanks, well thats definately an Islander, in which case it should be ZK-REA.
It's not really a wreck, just looks like it. 'Long term refurbishment' could be more accurate- if they ever do anything more to it.
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Post by Allen Brookes on May 5, 2012 9:06:31 GMT 12
Thanks for the help.
Allen
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Post by scrooge on Jun 16, 2012 19:58:28 GMT 12
Sorry to drag this up again, not REA or FVD as both on the apron together today.
Closer inspection gives a door with S/N S2 182 stamped onto it.
Anybody?
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Post by hairy on Jun 16, 2012 23:53:35 GMT 12
ZK-KTR?  |
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Post by Tony on Jun 17, 2012 6:58:27 GMT 12
c/n 182 comes back to ZK-IAS
Ex G-51-182, G-AYGS, ZS-IJA.
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Post by scrooge on Jun 17, 2012 11:38:58 GMT 12
ZK-IAS is a helicopter registration.
ZK-KTR- That rego does not exist, but it may be the airframe that was intended to be KTR.
I wonder if it has ever had an actual NZ rego?
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Post by baronbeeza on Jun 17, 2012 12:23:02 GMT 12
A number on a door may not mean too much in itself.
All NZ registered aircraft are required to have a stainless plate adjacent to the entry door with the NZ registration on it.
The manufacturer's data plate would have details but I forget where that is exactly now. Is it in the doorway also ?
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Post by hairy on Jun 17, 2012 14:54:38 GMT 12
ZK-KTR- That rego does not exist, but it may be the airframe that was intended to be KTR. From Dave Wise's NZ Registration Site; Registration: ZK-KTR Issue: 1 Registration Date: <2/07 Type: BN2A-21 Constuction number: 759 History: (res since <11/05) for Gt Barrier ex P2-VAB/P2-MFZ/JA5268/N11216/G-BCZD on major reb North Shore 9/11 not yet flown as ZK-KTR  Photo taken in GBA hangar. |
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Post by Tony on Jun 17, 2012 15:43:54 GMT 12
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Post by baronbeeza on Jun 17, 2012 16:29:55 GMT 12
If it is KTR and the BN2A-21 comment is correct then it would be a somewhat unusual Islander for NZ.
By far the most widely used Islanders here were the 260hp, O-540 powered machines.
ZK-JSB was a 300hp and I dare say there may have been a few others over the years, certainly not many though.
The Trislanders all had the carburetted engine so there will be limited parts inter-changeability between the Trislander, and common Islander, and the angle valve injected engines I would expect KTR to be fitted with.
If it is to have injected engines then the panel would be subtly different also.
Is the freshly painted aircraft the very same machine that was photographed earlier and is the subject of this thread ?
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Post by scrooge on Jun 17, 2012 18:36:11 GMT 12
Righto, the 'wreak' is 'KTR'. The fuselage is there and has the graffetti per nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/new-colour-scheme-for-islander-zk-ktr.htmlNot a slight at you Macfire at all. Currently H and I rego's in NZ belong to helicopters only, and ZK-IAS is a R44 on the CAA website. I think your records are correct as of that point in time etc. (that's the difference between 'is' and 'was'). I did not mean to disparage your information and in fact it definately adds to the greater picture. The fuselage was painted up as KTR though the rego was never issued by NZCAA. hugs all round! |
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Post by Allen Brookes on Aug 7, 2012 1:43:10 GMT 12
Thanks for all the posts. It seems odd to have it in the hangar in November 2011 and then "dumped" outside in February 2012. Can I assume that "KTR" is the correct ID or is there a further twist?
Allen
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