Date:	Thursday 8 April 1937
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.60G Moth
Owner/operator:	Canterbury Aero Club
Registration:	ZK-AAH
MSN:	868
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	Wigram Aerodrome, Sockburn, Christchurch -   New Zealand
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Wigram Aerodrome, Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand (NZWG)
Destination airport:	Wigram Aerodrome, Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand (NZWG)

Narrative:
Substantially damaged in forced landing at Wigram Aerodrome, Sockburn, Christchurch 8.4.37 and not repaired; inspected 18.1.38 and considered beyond economic repair.

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
2. As G-NZAY: https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-new-zealand-register/gn-z-zk?highlight=WyJ6ay1hZHoiXQ==
3. As ZK-AAH: https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-new-zealand-register/gn-z-zk?highlight=WyJ6ay1hYWgiXQ==
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_ZK-.html
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p008.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf
7. https://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKAAH.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigram_Aerodrome

c/no. 868 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I engine#95, amended to #112] to New Zealand Air Ministry without C of A; assembled at Wigram 1.29. Registered as G-NZAY 1.5.29 to Canterbury Aero Club, Christchurch and delivered 1.5.29 [painted as "NZAY"]. Badly damaged in forced landing 2 ml from Wigram 13.10.29.

Rebuilt with new fuselage and mainplanes and registered ZK-AAH later in 1929 to Canterbury Aero Club. Re-registered 22.9.31 [to same owner, implying prior cancellation]. Crashed whilst low flying Lauriston, 15 miles North West of Ashburton 16.7.32; rebuilt and first re-flown after repairs 1.11.33. Rebuilt with new fuselage and re-flown 2.6.35.

Registration ZK-AAH cancelled 18.8.38 as "withdrawn from use".

Impressed as instructional airframe without engine by RNZAF 13.10.39, probably broken up for spares at Wigram in 1940. Wigram Aerodrome (ICAO: NZWG) is located in the Christchurch suburb of Sockburn, later to be split-suburb of Wigram

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Mar-2024 18:55	Dr. John Smith	Added
12-Mar-2024 18:56	ASN	Updated [Narrative]