Date:	Monday 29 July 1963
Time:	day
Type:	De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
Owner/operator:	Weedair (NZ) Ltd
Registration:	ZK-AUT
MSN:	83274
Engine model:	de Havilland Gipsy Major
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Ihumātao, Mangere, Auckland -   New Zealand
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Agricultural
Departure airport:	Mangere Airfield, Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand (AKL/NZAA)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 83274 (Gipsy Major #83030); Taken on charge by the RAF as T5555 at 4 MU RAF Cowley, Oxford, 14.5.40 and shipped direct to Australia on the s.s "Port Melbourne" 1.7.40. Taken on charge by the RAAF 9.9.40 retaining RAF serial. To 8 EFTS Narrandera 20.10.40. To 11 EFTS Benalla 25.7.41. To 2 AOS Mount Gambier 19.12.44; transferred to CMU; put up for sale 4.47.

Struck off RAAF charge when sold 9.12.47 to J McKinnan, Mount Gambier. Australian civil registered VH-BEQ on 9.10.47 to John McKinnon, Mount Gambier, South Australia. Re-registered 20.5.49 to Frank H Gericke, Mount Gambier. Re-registered 6.6.50 to Claude D Elder, Essendon. Australian registration VH-BEQ cancelled 28.2.51 as 'sold to New Zealand'.

Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-AUT 30.8.50 to Aviation Enterprises Ltd, Taumarunui. Re-registered 24.5.56 to Northern Aviation Ltd, Whangarei. Re-registered 21.6.56 to Weedair (NZ) Ltd, Auckland. Crashed on take-off Ihumātao, Mangere, Auckland 29.7.63; pilot Boyce Barrow. (Ihumātao is a location situated three kilometres from Auckland International Airport in Mangere, Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) in New Zealand. A Māori village once existed there).

Registration ZK-AUT cancelled 26.3.65 as "Withdrawn From Use".

On rebuild (1986) by K Brodie, Masterton. Stored (2005-2011) pending rebuild by Bruce Broady, Auckland

NOTE: There were TWO Tiger Moths that carried the registration VH-BEQ. The above aircraft was VH-BEQ "the first". The registration was taken up by another airframe, VH-BEQ "the second" (MSN DHA809, ex-VH-RVN, RAAF A17-659 and originally SAAF DX782) on 31.7.61.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft T1000-V9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a17d.htm
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p832.html
5. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKARZ.htm
6. Tiger Moth ZK-AUT in 1953; http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac2/NZZZ/ZK-AUT.html
7. https://collection.motat.nz/objects/108484/zk-aut-dh-82a-tiger-moth
8. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihum%C4%81tao

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Aug-2014 15:14	TB	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Damage, Narrative, ]
22-Dec-2021 01:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]
26-Jan-2022 05:02	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type, ]