Date:	Thursday 26 June 1975
Time:	07:50
Type:	Piper PA-25-235B Pawnee
Owner/operator:	Farmers Aviation Ltd
Registration:	ZK-CIZ
MSN:	25-3562
Year of manufacture:	1965
Engine model:	Lycoming O-540
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Wairakei, Taupo -   New Zealand
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Agricultural
Departure airport:	Wairakei
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The aircraft had been parked in the open overnight, in the morning pilot B M Aitken used water to clear ice and frost from the wings, but it refroze before takeoff. The airplane managed to get airborne but would not climb and crashed into trees a couple of hundred metres from the end of the airstrip. The aircraft was destroyed, the pilot escaped with minor injuries.

1. Civil Air Accident Files, Archives New Zealand
2. King, John (1995). Aviation Accidents and Disasters. New Zealand Tragedies. Wellington: Grantham House. p. 131. ISBN 1 86934 042 6.
3. Aircraft Accident Brief 27/4/295

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


17 November 1970	ZK-CIZ	Farmers Aviation Ltd		Parihaka, Taranaki		unk
2 March 1973	ZK-CIZ	Farmers Aviation Ltd		Te Popo, Taranaki		unk
22 July 1977	ZK-CIZ	Farmers Aviation Ltd		Whenuakura, Taranaki		unk
6 September 1981	ZK-CIZ	Farmers Aviation Ltd	0	Hawera Aerodrome, Taranaki		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
25-May-2009 20:17	XLerate	Updated
26-Sep-2021 00:39	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, ]
08-Oct-2021 20:43	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]