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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 20, 2020 23:30:50 GMT 12
NZ1100 is at ardmore in the nz warbirds hangar.i know this because i put it there So who owns it now and what plans are there for its future? Going to be restored i believe along with 909 but all the mk2 bits may be used as one project and will probably become nz909 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 22:07:43 GMT 12
All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official: NZ932 2-Oct 1944 Wigram Taxy accident  Some more MKIIs - All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official: NZ932  All RNZAF or RNZAF Museum official, comments from ADF Serials, accidents (up until 1956) from NZ Archives: NZ932 Mk II 66-2745 Issued to NZ under Empire Air Training Scheme. Shipped to New Zealand on "Limerick" in May 1941 and assembled at Hobsonville. BOC 20 May 1941. To No.2 SFTS Woodbourne. Declared surplus on SR416/58 and sold by GSB tender number 7078 to Bennett Aviation Ltd., Te Kuiti for two hundred pounds. Price included Pratt and Whitnet R1340-ANI engine serial number 8747. Remains noted at scrapyard in Bexley, Christchurch in January 1962 prior to melting down. NZ932 21-May 1943 Woodbourne Landed undercarriage up NZ932 5-May 1944 Nelson Forced down, bad weather NZ932 2-Oct 1944 Wigram Taxy accident  |
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Post by ngirl5 on Apr 1, 2021 16:49:03 GMT 12
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Post by ngirl5 on Jul 5, 2021 18:22:24 GMT 12
Harvard 66 video I hadn’t posted this due to my exceptionally average phone video but you do get some of that magnificent Harvard sound <3<3<3<3 Harvard 66 Tairawhiti Gisborne 14th Feb 2021  Looooove to get better videos <3<3<3<3 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 14:12:42 GMT 12
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Post by planewriting on Jul 9, 2021 17:31:01 GMT 12
That is most certainly ZK-WAR. ZK-ENE wore the standard grey RNZAF scheme until after 1990 whereas ZK-WAR wore the camouflage livery until more recent times. Nice picture all the same.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 9, 2021 18:08:46 GMT 12
ZK-ENE had a blue-green mock-wartime camouflage scheme actually Peter. It changed from that to the US Navy blue after the collision with NZ1025.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 13:52:05 GMT 12
The fact ENE was in camo is what made me wonder which of the two it was. Here's a photo of ENE that Dad took that same weekend:  north-american-harvard-nz1066zk-ene_35702288225_o by Zac Yates, on Flickr Which of the two had the rear view mirror seen in the picture of small Zac? I'm hoping that could nail it down. |
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Post by Damon on Jul 10, 2021 17:36:55 GMT 12
You can just see the padding for the gun sight that WAR has. Don't think ENE had a gun sight fitted in civie hands.
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Post by planewriting on Jul 11, 2021 9:02:10 GMT 12
ZK-ENE had a blue-green mock-wartime camouflage scheme actually Peter. It changed from that to the US Navy blue after the collision with NZ1025. Well, I certainly got the comment about the scheme wrong didn't I! Sorry. I was going to ask the owner, Andrew Gormlie, to look in the aircraft's logbook to confirm its presence and possibly determine the weekend involved. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2021 12:22:15 GMT 12
You can just see the padding for the gun sight that WAR has. Don't think ENE had a gun sight fitted in civie hands. That would seem to nail it down, plus I think the camo green looks more like WAR too. I was going to ask the owner, Andrew Gormlie, to look in the aircraft's logbook to confirm its presence and possibly determine the weekend involved. The only thing is Peter, I believe both ENE and WAR were at Wanganui for the pageant!! As for the weekend in question, this helps:  Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr |
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Post by planecrazy on Oct 22, 2021 14:58:09 GMT 12
May have posted some of these before?  ?.... Taken when 99 came through on her way to Oz, I believe currently in Tasmania as the states only warbird.  Taken when ferried across the Tasman by Kelvin Stark(?) after been sold by the Alpine Fighter Collection to Randall McFarlane(?) in OZ, in company with my model of “85.”  I am pretty sure “85” was the first official warbird on the Australian register, I believe she has been owned by the Zucioli family, up at Toowoomba in OZ, from the day she was registered to this day. .  This shot taken at Toowoomba in the 90’s from memory, the Boomerang was made using a lot of Harvard parts in America, now resides at the Oakey Army Museum.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 22, 2021 19:37:37 GMT 12
NZ1099 was a really gorgeous restoration.
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 22, 2021 20:27:11 GMT 12
Thinking 099 now on the mainland
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Post by planecrazy on Oct 22, 2021 22:34:11 GMT 12
NZ1099 was a really gorgeous restoration. The pilot, Steve Death, told me she had a folding rear canopy and the seat could be turned around, I'm guessing for a rear gun mount, you can see the rear canopy stowed in this pic.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 22, 2021 22:37:35 GMT 12
It had an operable machine gun too when Charles Darby owned her.
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Post by NZ1009 on Oct 30, 2021 19:03:01 GMT 12
Air Force Museum of New Zealand photo 2016-209.279  2016-209.279 by , on Flickr I have not seen this complete photo before. I believe the pilot of the Harvard was killed later that day in the crash of another Harvard, NZ1095. From NZDF Serials website: NZ1095 With No.3 (TAF) Squadron 1949-16 December 1950. Crashed at Wigram while practising aerobatics at 1422 hours on 16 December 1950. The aircraft spun into the ground near the airfield boundary. Pilot Officer Joseph McGloin killed. Written off at Wigram 20 January 1951. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 30, 2021 19:31:46 GMT 12
I saw the photo earlier and expected it had a bad outcome, very sad to see it was fatal.  Amazing capture by the photographer. |
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Post by NZ1009 on Oct 30, 2021 20:17:51 GMT 12
The photo shows an incident in the morning - surprisingly, given the nose down attitude, the Harvard
did not crash and landed safely. The NZ1095 incident was the same pilot and occurred later the same day.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 4, 2021 9:18:06 GMT 12
Wow! Thanks NZ1009 for that info. I guess his luck ran out. |
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Amazing capture by the photographer.