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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 19, 2014 9:46:51 GMT 12
That Macchi has been there like that for at least a year.
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Post by baz62 on Sept 19, 2014 10:05:36 GMT 12
Are the Macchis on loan like the Skyhawks? If they are she needs to go to a better home.
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Post by vs on Sept 19, 2014 10:25:28 GMT 12
Is that airframe part of the museum which the RNZAF has an involvement with?
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Post by TS on Sept 19, 2014 10:33:35 GMT 12
As far as I'm concerned ALL those aircraft in that museum should be somewhere else. If they have been gifted that Macchi then it should have been put under cover immediately what a disgrace....
I agree with nzjet that is a huge kick in the clangers!!!
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Post by delticman on Sept 19, 2014 10:42:51 GMT 12
The Wanaka A4K would be better placed in a museum in the UK. I don't think there is any of this type in European Museums. If they like our TVAL machines, why not one from Safeair?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 19, 2014 15:09:36 GMT 12
As far as I understand it the Macchis were sold to the various museums, not placed on loan. Is that correct nzjet? I don't believe the RNZAF has any "involvement" with either the Wanaka Toy Museum (which is renowned for leaving airframes in the weather to die) nor the Warbirds And Wheels Museum at Wanaka. The latter has a Skyhawk, Vampire and Strikemaster on loan from the Air Force Museum but that is as far as it goes I believe. The Macchi looked a lot better a few months back. Search the web and you'll find pretty good photos of it in March 2014 here www.airliners.net/photo/New-Zealand--/Aermacchi-MB-339CB/2438270/&sid=a116e9085814fc35e52d2460d7c5f95cand here in April 2014 www.airliners.net/photo/2437826/ |
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Post by nzjet on Sept 19, 2014 16:22:37 GMT 12
All the macchis are owned and not loaned and they are free to do whatever they like with them. This wanaka macchi as far as i know is under wigrams care.
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Post by dakman on Sept 19, 2014 16:48:23 GMT 12
Did the Masterton based George Hood /SVAS museum get a Macchi ?.
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Post by delticman on Sept 19, 2014 17:35:42 GMT 12
The "SVAS" machine is still at Ohakea, believed at Biggin Hill.
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Post by nzjet on Sept 19, 2014 18:31:18 GMT 12
Indeed it is, it sat outside for a while filling up with birds nests. Out of all of them that would be the pick of the airworthy examples. 10 emails and 3 phone calls to SVAS have gone completely unanswered as to what there plans are for the machine. I give up!
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Post by jasonmac on Dec 30, 2018 18:41:37 GMT 12
I wonder how this list is looking now? Anyone got any intel of any inactive airframes sitting unloved at various airfields across NZ? Fascinating stuff. JM  |
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Post by paul1953 on May 2, 2019 7:25:21 GMT 12
Hi. Not sure if they have been shown here but here are a couple photos of my sightings of derelict/ abandoned aircraft at Taupo in February 2019.   Above: GAF Nomad 
Piper PA 24 Comanche. |
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Post by FlyingKiwi on May 2, 2019 19:46:41 GMT 12
EHQ appears to be a Twin Comanche rather than a PA-24. Wonder what its story is.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 20:42:09 GMT 12
As a Nomad fan it's sad to see SNZ like that. I think it was our last flying N22? There aren't any left on our register.
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Post by l29 on May 2, 2019 22:21:57 GMT 12
EHQ appears to be a Twin Comanche rather than a PA-24. Wonder what its story is. EHQ ended up derelict in the cook islands, somehow it ended up back here a while ago. Wouldn't have been worth the freight cost back! |
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 2, 2019 22:50:28 GMT 12
ZK-EHQ Piper PA39-160C Twin Comanche C/R
Last recorded sale July 2000 Ewan F Smith, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Proposed to become E5-EHQ, but WFU and derelict at Taupo 2017 as ZK-EHQ.
I don't believe it ever left NZ.
ZK-SNZ GAF N22B Nomad - re-designated N22C Feb 2000
last recorded owner, from May 2005, Tandem Skydiving (2002) Ltd., Taupo
WFU at Taupo, cancelled June 2018
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Post by paul1953 on May 2, 2019 23:51:19 GMT 12
Thanks for the added info guys. Re the Twin Com, without the wings couldn't tell if it was a twin so went by the fuselage shape and memory. As for the GAF Nomad I saw a fully airworthy one down at Lake Tekapo being used for sight seeing registered as ZK-NMD. I have a photo of it in company with a Cessna 208 and GA8 Airvan. Owned / operated by Air Safaris
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 4, 2019 19:38:09 GMT 12
Both current Air Safaris & Services Nomads - ZK-NMD/2 and ZK-NME - are N24A
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Post by rotoruapete on Mar 29, 2020 13:17:11 GMT 12
ZK-EHQ Piper PA39-160C Twin Comanche C/R Last recorded sale July 2000 Ewan F Smith, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Proposed to become E5-EHQ, but WFU and derelict at Taupo 2017 as ZK-EHQ. I don't believe it ever left NZ. ZK-EHQ is currently in someone's front lawn,302 Malfroy Rd, Rotorua photos.app.goo.gl/2iVemTQ2UiPFdnhGA |
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Post by givinia on Feb 8, 2021 12:41:34 GMT 12
On top of a building in a car sales yard located on the main road into the Auckland suburb of New Lynn sits this display item:  It has been there for quite a number if years, and has sported a few different colour schemes during that time (the current colours obviously date from around three years ago). Now the proportions are such that I do not believe it is a replica or model, but that it is an actual aircraft. A Grumman American AA5 Traveller in fact. Trawling through the possibilities, I suspect that it could be Traveller ZK-DLA. This Grumman was registered to NZ Aerospace Industries Ltd. (the agents) in November 1973 and went to the Wellington Aero Club at Rongotai the following year. ZK-DLA at Rongotai 5Aug1978  In early 1984 it was transferred to the Kapiti District AC at Paraparaumu but within a month was passed on to private owners in the Wellington district. On the 26th January 1994 ZK-DLA ran off end of the strip on landing at Waiheke Island and was badly damaged. The registration was cancelled 4Mar1994. The aircraft was certainly returned to the mainland after this adventure, this is how it arrived back at Ardmore:  So - can anyone confirm or dispute that the New Lynn 'item' is actually ZK-DLA? |
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