ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 64438
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| Date: | Saturday 9 September 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Northern Air Services Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-AUU |
| MSN: | 83885 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Eight Mile Junction, King Country -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Te Kuiti Aerodrome, Te Kuiti, Waikato, New Zealand (NZTT) |
| Te Kuiti Aerodrome, Te Kuiti, Waikato, New Zealand (NZTT) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83885: Taken on charge as T7461, nominally at 15 MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 19.10.40. However, stored in ‘purgatory’ at Riding School, Walton Street, Oxford; returned to Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford 27.6.41 for erection. To 6 EFTS RAF Sywell, Northamptonshire 11.7.41. Crashed 7.4.43 [presumably at Sywell]; to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 20.4.43. After ompletion of repairs, to 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 28.5.43. To 38 MU RAF Llandow, Glamorgan 29.11.44. To 25 [P]EFTS RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 3.3.45 coded ‘2’. To 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 26.11.45. To 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 6.3.46 for storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 17.4.46 to Fairoaks Aero Club, Fairoaks, Chobham, Surrey. Registered as G-AHLR (C of R 10164) 2.5.46 to Universal Flying Services Ltd and operated by Oxford Flying Club, Kidlington, Oxfordshire. C of A issued 28.6.46. Regsitration G-AHLR brefily cancelled 10.3.47. Restored when re-registered 15.3.47 to Goodhew Aviation Co Ltd, Kidlington. Damaged on landing Kidlington 9.5.49; repaired and returned to service
Registration G-AHLR cancelled 15.6.50 as 'sold in New Zealand'. Re-registered ZK-AUU 15.8.50 to Northern Air Services Ltd (NF Layther), Te Kuiti.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled on final turn and crashed on landing near Eight Mile Junction, 8 miles South of Te Kuiti 8.9.50. Pilot N F Layther. Registration ZK-AUU cancelled 26.6.52.
Te Kuiti Aerodrome (NZTT) provides commercial, leisure and recreational aviation opportunities. Situated 5km north of Te Kuiti, the Airport has a 500m asphalt runway, 160m hard surface with the balance length of 100m in grass.
Te Kuiti is a town in the north of the King Country region of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the junction of State Highways 3 and 30 and on the North Island Main Trunk railway, 80 kilometres south of Hamilton, and 19 km south-east of Waitomo.
Sources:
1. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p838.html
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AHLR.pdf
4. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKARZ.htm
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
6. Photo of ZK-AUU in 1950: https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/001145717.html
7. https://www.waitomo.govt.nz/our-services/community-service/facilities/te-kuiti-aerodrome/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Kuiti
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 09-Jul-2009 14:54 | angels one five | Updated |
| 20-Feb-2016 01:38 | angels one five | Updated [Registration, Cn, Location, Narrative] |
| 31-Aug-2021 19:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 28-Sep-2021 23:01 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, Location] |
| 26-Jan-2022 05:05 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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