Photo Archive - Civil Aircraft Post-WWII

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	CIVIL007	De Havilland Tiger Moth ZK-BCF.  This aircraft was built by Morris Motors at Cowley, England (serial number 85106), where it served with the RAF as T6859.  It then went onto the civil register in the United Kingdom post-war as G-ALWT beofre being shipped to New Zealand.  Initially registered in New Zealand as ZK-BCF (shown here as a topdresser), the aircraft suffered a major accident and was rebuilt and registered as ZK-BGS.  On 28 November 1957, it was lost in the Cook Strait area during a storm.
	CIVIL008	ZK-ATY was built in 1942 by the Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation in the USA and imported into New Zealand from Fiji on 28 November 1949.  It was initially owned by Aircraft Services (NZ) Ltd, located at Mangere Aerodrome, and painted silver with a red nose and registration letters.
	CIVIL009	On 20 January 1956, ZK-ATY took part in the Southland Centennial Air Race from Omaka, Blenheim, to Invercargill.  This photograph, taken at Omaka Aerodrome, shows the aircraft without the rear decking, and painted gloss black with gold stripes and lettering - the colour scheme the aircraft wore when it went missing on 23 November 1956.
	CIVIL010	The Canterbury Aero Club's Comanche, ZK-BOO, is presumed to have crashed in the sea on 17 October 1958 after the pilot lost control of the aircraft in cloud north of Auckland.  The four occupants and the main wreckage of the aircraft were never located.
	CIVIL011	De Havilland Dragonfly ZK-AFB as it appeared when ownership passed to the Canterbury Aero Club on 4 December 1946.  The aircraft had an orange fuselage with silver tail surfaces and wings.  Lettering was green.
	CIVIL012	ZK-AFB as it appeared in Air Charter colours. The aircraft went missing without trace on Monday 12 February 1962 on a flight from Christchurch to Milford Sound.  No trace of the aircraft, its pilot, and four passengers has been found.
	CIVIL013	Cessna180 ZK-BMP.  This aircraft went missing without trace on 16 August 1978 in poor weather while on a lfight from Big Bay, Fiordland, to Riversdale, Southland.  A large search failed to find any trace of the Cessna and its four occupants.
	CIVIL014	Wanganui Aero Club's Cherokee Archer ZK-DIT was lost on 26 February 1984 after its pilot, Heather Armstrong, flew into cloud and crashed into the Hunua ranges with the loss of four lives.
	CIVIL015	ZK-DBQ was owned by a number of operators.  Originally the aircraft flew in Kenya as 5Y-KTX with the Kenya Police Air Wing, before being exported to New Zealand and registered as ZK-DBQ on 23 October 1970.  The Aero Commander initially flew with Geyserland Airways before being registered with Air North on 28 June 1976.
	CIVIL016	Piper Tomahawk ZK-WAC and its pilot, Paul Clarke, went missing without trace on 7 January 1982 during a one-hour training flight from Ardmore Airfield.