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Post by rossbrodie on Jan 28, 2016 11:44:56 GMT 12
Another Beagle Airedale is shortly to be seen in New Zealand skies, taking the national Airedale population to two! ZK-COA (ex VH-UEP) was imported in December 2015 and is currently being assembled at West Melton.  ZK-COA will join NZ's only other resident Airedale ZK-CCW, both of which will be based at Rangitata Island.  Does anyone have any pictures to share of CCW? |
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 28, 2016 12:23:08 GMT 12
Great to see AA-1 DKX is getting some attention also. Did you happen to hear how the guys were getting on with her ?
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Post by rossbrodie on Jan 28, 2016 12:33:50 GMT 12
Great to see AA-1 DKX is getting some attention also. Did you happen to hear how the guys were getting on with her ? Sorry, I'm not sure what the status is with the Grumman. |
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Post by baz62 on Jan 28, 2016 14:07:47 GMT 12
Has CCW been fixed then? I thought she had had a close encounter with a hangar?
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 28, 2016 14:53:41 GMT 12
The young fella flew it with the 16 aircraft ordeal, - are you suggesting there were casualties, Baz.
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Post by baz62 on Jan 28, 2016 20:35:20 GMT 12
No a conversation with her previous owner.
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 28, 2016 21:30:22 GMT 12
Ok, that must have been a while ago, - Ross will know the dates but it has been at Rangitata almost a year now. We were flying about Rangitata on the day of it's delivery.... indeed we raced it back northwards when it dropped the guys back at Darfield. I would think it was about mid-Feb.
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Post by rossbrodie on Jan 29, 2016 8:18:19 GMT 12
Has CCW been fixed then? I thought she had had a close encounter with a hangar? CCW's prop had an argument with the CRAC Clubrooms at Rangiora mid last year. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jun 15, 2021 17:23:11 GMT 12
Any idea on the current status of the Beagle ZK-COA?
I have yet to see it out and about.
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Post by typerated on Jun 15, 2021 19:26:41 GMT 12
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Post by merv on Jun 17, 2021 10:22:35 GMT 12
In October 1963 my neighbor, Peter Roy, had just bought ZK-CCW brand new from the agent for £4,000. In 1965 when Jenny and I were married we had a flying honeymoon. We flew right around New Zealand via North Cape in this new Beagle Airdale ZK-CCW. This replaced his Auster J5G which he had earlier sold to me. As the Beagle aircraft was the only type in New Zealand, not surprisingly, there was only one instructor licensed to fly it, which was Paul Beauchamp-Legg who lived at Levin. So my instructor, phoned Paul and over the phone he was able to ‘log a couple of hours’. He then was fully qualified to give me my rating. Over a period of time I done a lot of flying in this aircraft.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jun 19, 2021 17:08:01 GMT 12
The J/5G would have been ZK-BDK (which is still with us).
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Post by merv on Jun 19, 2021 19:10:07 GMT 12
The J/5G would have been ZK-BDK (which is still with us). Yes that's correct. I paid £1,000 for the aircraft with a total time of 400 hours |
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