ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63746
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 March 1956 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Aerial Superspread Ltd |
| Registration: | ZK-BAF |
| MSN: | 86177 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Te Puia Springs, East Coast -
 New Zealand
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Gisborne Airport, Gisborne, New Zealand (GIS/NGZS) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
de Havilland DH82a Tiger Moth MSN 86177; Taken on charge as NL694 at 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 1.7.43. To 21 EFTS RAF Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 19.7.43. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 4.8.45. To Belgian Training School, RAF Snailwell 7.1.46. To 20 MU RAF Aston Down, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 5.4.46. To 6 FTS RAF Ternhill, Shropshire 17.9.47. To Empire Air Navigation School, RAF Shawbury, Shropshire 15.4.48, coded “FGF-Y”. Unit Renamed Central Navigation School 31.7.49; then Central Navigation & Control School 10.2.50. To 9 MU RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire 28.9.50 for long-term storage pending disposal.
Struck off charge when sold 3.4.51 to Air Navigation & Trading Ltd, Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire. It seems likely that the Tiger Moths ZK-BAF/G/H were all converted to crop-dusters by Jim McMahon at Broxbourne, Essex, England in 1951-52. An Airworthiness Approval Note was issued by the ARB in 12.52 to JM McMahon c/o Herts & Essex Aero Club for modification of a Tiger with a hopper designed to carry 500 lbs and embodying a detachable folding seat for use by a person required as ground operator. While the AAN refers to ZK-BAF, it seems likely that the prototype was actually ZK-BAH (MSN 83589) and accounts for its brief use of a UK registration (as G-ALZA).
Re-registered in New Zealand as ZK-BAF 26.5.52 to R.G. “Gary” Toulson, t/a Adastra Ltd, Tauranga. Re-registered 11.12.52 to Adastra Ltd, Tauranga. C of A issued 23.2.53. Re-registered 23.2.53 to Aerial Superspread Ltd, Gisborne. Crashed following engine failure Te Puia Springs, Gisbourne District, North Island, 28.3.56. Pilot: Cameron Registration ZK-BAF cancelled 9.5.56.
Te Puia Springs is a village on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, located 103 km north of Gisborne, at approximate coordinates 38°4′ 0″S, 178°18′ 0″E.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft NZ100-NZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH82.pdf
3. http://archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewEntity.do?code=7333
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p861.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Puia_Springs
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 20-Jul-2009 14:40 | angels one five | Updated |
| 12-Oct-2013 08:42 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Location, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2021 15:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 26-Nov-2021 02:39 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 29-Jan-2022 18:11 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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