ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63625
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| Date: | Wednesday 10 April 1957 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Reeves Transport (Air Services) Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-AVZ |
| MSN: | 85325 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bay View, Hawke's Bay -
 New Zealand
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Napier (Hawke's Bay) Airport, Westshore, Napier, New Zealand (NPE/NZNR) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85325; Taken on charge as DE279 at 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 17.1.42. To 22 EFTS RAF Teversham, Cambridge 7.2.42, coded “29”, later “FJA-C”. To 22 RFS (Reserve Flying School) RAF Teversham, Cambridge 26.6.47 coded “RCU-N”. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinampton, Gloucestershire 20.4.50 for storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 29.3.51 to Aerocontacts Ltd. UK civil registered as G-AMTH (C of R R3728/1) on 11.6.52 to Aerocontacts Ltd, Gatwick Airport, Horely, Surrey. C of A issued 13.1.53. Registration G-AMTH cancelled 14.1.53 as 'sold to New Zealand'.
Initially to Air & Mercantile Ltd, Masterton. NZ civil registered ZK-AVZ 22.6.53 to Reeves Transport (Air Services) Ltd, Hastings. Badly damaged in crash on take-off Maraekakaho 13.5.54; repaired and returned to service. Re-registered 15.1.57 to L B Fox & G A Patterson, t/a Air Swathe, Hastings.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Bay View, Hawke's Bay, 9 km North of Napier, North Island 10.4.57; Pilot L B Fox. Regustration ZK-AVZ cancelled 3.5.57.
Bay View is a settlement in the Hawke's Bay region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand. It lies on State Highway 2, nine kilometres north of the city centre of Napier. The Esk River flows into the sea just to the north. Hawke's Bay Airport and the Napier suburb of Westshore lie just to the south. Hawke's Bay Airport, commonly referred to as Napier Airport, is Hawke's Bay's main commercial airport
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1987 p.10)
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMTH.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
4. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p853.html
6. http://www.flydw.org.uk/DWZKARZ.htm
7. https://knowledgebank.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/node/45047/master/CrookJV1556_EarlyTopdressingDays.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View,_New_Zealand
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 19-Jul-2009 00:55 | angels one five | Updated |
| 22-Feb-2016 09:44 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location] |
| 10-Nov-2021 01:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Nov-2021 02:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 29-Jan-2022 03:44 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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