ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63420
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| Date: | Tuesday 4 August 1959 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Aerial Sowing (Canterbury) Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-BNB |
| MSN: | DHNZ171 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Waitohi, Canterbury -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Waitohi, Pleasant Point-Temuka, Timaru District, Canterbury | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN DHNZ.171; Built by DH NZ at Rongotai, Wellington. Taken on charge by the RNZAF as NZ1491 at Unit 39, Rongotai, Wellington 13.6.44.
Declared surplus on Goverment Stores Board SR132/55 dated 15.8.55 and sold by tender number 6091 to aircraft Engineering Co of NZ Ltd for £395. Struck off charge 13.12.55. NZ civil registered as ZK-BNB 22.12.55 to Aircraft Engineering Co of NZ Ltd and operated by associate Airlift (NZ) Ltd, Rongotai. NZ CofA issued 6.4.56. Badly damaged in crash on landing Tawai 9.4.57; repaired and returned to service. Converted for agricultural (top dressing/crop sparying) operations dueing repairs. Re-registered 14.2.58 to Auster Air Services Ltd, Timaru; operated by (associated company) Aerial Sowing (Canterbury) Ltd, Christchurch.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed into overhead HT wires in a forced landing Waitohi, Pleasant Point-Temuka, Timaru District, Canterbury 14.8.59; pilot R C Crow. (Waitohi, Waitohi Flat and Upper Waitohi are small farming centres from 5 to 16 km west of Temuka and north of the Opihi river, South Canterbury in New Zealand. They are about 20 km north of Timaru).
Registration ZK-BNB cancelled 21.4.60 as "destroyed".
Sources:
1. Janic Geelen, 1983, The Topdressers.
2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzdh82.htm
3. https://steemit.com/history/@len.george/de-havilland-tiger-moth-dh-82a-nz1466-to-nz-1500-1939-to-1956-part-7
4. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/pNZ1.html
7. https://www.austairdata.com.au/component/rsdirectory/entry/view/57034-zk-bnb-1
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitohi
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 9 April 1957 | ZK-BNB | Aerial Sowing (Canterbury) Ltd | 0 | Tawai, Canterbury | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 10-Oct-2021 19:33 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Source] |
| 04-Dec-2021 21:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 05-Dec-2021 21:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 30-Jan-2022 07:04 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
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