ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63850
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| Date: | Sunday 24 April 1966 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | E A Hollick |
| Registration: | ZK-ATN |
| MSN: | 81993/DHNZ1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Palmers Beach, Great Barrier Island -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Palmers Beach, Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 82713 (Gipsy Major #81993); built by DeHavilland at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. To DH Aircraft Co of New Zealand, and built up from UK manufactured steel fuselage with locally produced assemblies under Contract No.8200 with c/n DHNZ.1. Taken on charge by RNZAF as NZ751 at Unit 18, Rongotai, Wellington, 29.7.40. To 3 EFTS Harewood [1942-44]. Flew only 20 hours before being used as a grounded instructional airframe. To RNZAF Taieri [1947] for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 8.5.49 to Tauranga Aero Club. New Zealand civil regsitered as ZK-ATN 10.10.49 to Ronald I Graham, t/a Airspread, Tauranga. CofA issued 14.12.49. Badly damaged when undercarriage collapsed on take-off Paeroa 22.2.51; repaired and returned to service. Re-registered 18.4.52 to Airspread Ltd, Tauranga. Re-registered 4.7.57 to F J McDonald, Tauranga, and reverted to standard two-seater configuration. Re-registered 24.10.57 to E A Hollick, Great Barrier Island.
Badly damaged when crashed on take off at Oneriri Statuion, Oneriri, Northland, 11.12.59; pilot E Hollick. Oneriri Station is a privately owned Beef and Sheep farm of 3,500 hectares situated on a Peninsula on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour, 1.5 hours north of Auckland. Repaired and returned to service.
Crashed at Palmers Beach, Great Barrier Island on 24.4.66 when it overturned on take off after striking a soft patch of sand. Pulled from water by tractor and taken to Claris Airfield on own wheels on 24.6.66. Pilot and passenger unhurt but aircraft badly damaged. Insley had salvaged as much as possible of the airframe from the Great Barrier accident and the remainder of the aircraft was burnt. Palmers Beach is on the east coast of Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Registration ZK-ATN belatedly cancelled 25.5.90 as destroyed.
Re-registered 27.10.93 to Ian G Insley, Swanson, Auckland (for complete rebuild, using fuselage from Tiger Moth NZ771, MSN.83079/DHNZ.21, which had never been civilianised). Sold 13.2.95 to Malcolm J MacDonald, (of Stamford, CT, USA) and composite rebuild project (1998) by Stan Smith, Dairy Flat. Rebuild near completion (8.2001) but offered for sale as a near complete project in January 2004 for NZ$200,000).
The aircraft is claimed to have flown only 20 hours since 1940. Sold 5.2004 to Guy & Karen Lofthouse. Registered 11.6.2004 to Brooklands Aviation NZ Ltd, North Shore (but remained in store at North Shore). Donated 2021 to New Zealand War Birds Association at Ardmore Airport, Auckland. Currently registered.
Sources:
1. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzdh82.htm
2. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/pNZ0.html
4. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
5. Tiger Moth ZK-ATN at Ardmore Airport, Auckland New Zealand (NZAR) 15.3.66: https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000051880.html
6. https://nzwarbirds.org.nz/association/tiger-moth-restoration/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmers_Beach
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 18-May-2018 22:42 | Ron Averes | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 28-Dec-2021 16:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Jan-2022 04:36 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location] |
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