ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 347899
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| Date: | Friday 19 May 1939 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Canterbury Aero Club |
| Registration: | ZK-AAR |
| MSN: | 1102 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Wigram AFB, Canterbury -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Wigram AFB, Canterbury |
c/no. 1102 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I #492] to Air Survey & Transport Co Ltd, New Zealand with C of A 1978 issued 14.5.29. Registered as ZK-AAR 28.8.29 [or 5.9.29] to Capt. James Duff Hewett, t/a Falcon Airways, Auckland; named "Falcon".
Crashed Rongotai, Wellington 12.2.30; repaired. Non-stop flight by Hewett from Dunedin to Auckland [Mangere] 15.3.30; flown 740 miles in 10 hours. Set a New Zealand record for the greatest distance flown in a day.
Sold 29.8.34 and re-registered 19.10.34 to Air Survey & Transport Co Ltd, Hobsonville; completely rebuilt using new fuselage and mainplanes by 12.34. Re-registered [C of R 36] 23.8.35 to Canterbury Aero Club, Christchurch
Substantially damaged 19.5.39: Stalled on landing at Wigram AFB, Canterbury. Repaired and returned to service. Shortly after repair, impressed into RNZAF as NZ519 on 13.10.39 and operated by 2 EFTS. Withdrawn from use July 1941 and to instructional airframe INST.36 at Rongotai. Believed scrapped by mid-1945
Sources:
1. AHSNZ, 1987, Journal, Vol 30 No 3.
2. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_ZK-.html
4. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-new-zealand-register/gn-z-zk?highlight=WyJ6ay1hYXgiXQ==
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p011.html
6. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzdh60.htm
7. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKAAH.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigram_Aerodrome
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 31 March 1938 | ZK-AAR | Canterbury Aero Club | 0 | Birch Hill, Canterbury | |
non |
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Nov-2023 23:01 | Ron Averes | Added |
| 25-Nov-2023 13:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 25-Nov-2023 13:57 | Anon. | Updated [Total occupants, Nature] |
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