Just over the road from the RNZAF base at Woodbourne, this immaculately displayed machine is preserved by The Argosy Trust outside a cafe, recalling the period when it often operated from the airfield. Originally G-ASXN with BEA, it later went to Transair in Canada and then to NZ in 1974. A careful study of Google Earth back home had established that I'd get the best sun angle in the morning, but it was cloudy then. Note plastic owl bird scarer on the wing!

Damaged at Haururu Falls December 19, 1989. Registration cancelled 1994.

Sold in United States in 1996 as N399CZ

Sold in Papua New Guinea as P2-ALR in 2003.

Traded to Aermacchi for MB339. Became VH-ONP in 1995

Unique three-seat conversion of an Australian-built Yeoman YA1 Cropmaster. Being restored in Australia as VH-FBC

Ex VH-IYA

With "Calibration" on the forward fuselage. Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1992

ZK-FRD was fitted with unusual scalloped rudder and elevators - and a painting of Fred Flintstone

Ex ZK-BXD. Withdrawn from use 1992 and later sold in the Philippines as RP-C6888.

Many New Zealand aircraft which operate solely within the country do not have the national prefix ZK-

Crashed off Perth, Western Australia, on March 20, 2001