Date:	Monday 28 February 1977
Time:
Type:	Schleicher ASW-15
Owner/operator:	F H Desborough
Registration:	ZK-GGN
MSN:	15059
Fatalities:	Fatalities: / Occupants:
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Unknown
Location:	Tarawera Airstrip, Bay of Plenty 3 -   New Zealand
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
pilot B Kelly. Actual strip location not specified, but its not Mt Tarawera airstrip, which opened in Dec 1979. Most likely the Tarawera Forest airstrip, adjacent to Tarawera Road and not far from the Tarawera Falls. This strip has now been largely planted over, except for a helipad and dam still on site.

1. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
2. Don Stafford, 1983, Flying The Thermal Skies, Thermalart Productions.
3. New Zealand Wings, Dec 1974.
4. Personal knowledge of Tarawera Falls area.

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


15 January 1972

ZK-GGN

F H Desborough

Benmore Range, Canterbury

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
25-Sep-2021 13:39	Ron Averes	Updated [Cn, ]
25-Sep-2021 14:20	Ron Averes	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
27-Sep-2021 21:49	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, ]
16-Feb-2022 06:05	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ]