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ZK-AZB snug inside at her Kairanga base.

Photo: Graeme D. Mills © 17 August 2011

ZK-AZB at sunny Gisborne.

Photos: Neil Aird © 24 October 2010

ZK-AZB Ready for flight at Kairanga.

Photo: Alison Griffin © 04 October 2010

VH-WOZ being prepped for export "home" to NZ.

Photos: Graeme D. Mills © 27 January 2010

Photos: Graeme D. Mills © 12 December 2009

VH-WOZ on final spreading mission in Australia.

Photo: Lenn Bayliss © 06 October 2009

VH-WOZ landing or Guyra farm field.

Photo: Graeme D. Mills © 06 October 2009

VH-WOZ with the accessories needed for top-dressing.

Photos: Neil Aird © 23 April 2005

VH-WOZ at Toowoomba.

Photo: Lenn Bayliss © April 1999

ZK-AZB just after respray prior to leaving for Motti Island.

Photo: Graeme D. Mills © 1985

Photo: Unknown photograapher © Graeme D. Mills Collection

ZK-AZB a lifetime of topdressing!

Photo: Eddie Coates Collection ©

ZK-AZB doing what she does best.

Photos: via Ernie Tait ©

Photo: Unknown photographer © 1982 - Aird Archives

ZK-AZB at Napier.

Photo: Peter Lewis © 05 September 1981

ZK-AZB at Matawai, Gisborne.

Photo: Ernie Tait © 1970's

ZK-AZB at Masterton, ready for action.

Photo: © 1971 - via Graeme Mills

Photo: Unknown photographer © - Richard Goring Collection - Aird Archives

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ZK-AZB VH-WOZ

ZK-AZB*

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• Delivered 26-Oct-1951

• ZK-AZB • Fieldair Holdings, Gisborne Regd 19-Dec-1951

• East Coast Air Services, Gisborne. Restored 10-Jul-1961

• East Coast Air Services Ltd., Gisborne • "Flagship" Restored 10-Jul-1961

• Fieldair 1962

• Fieldair Holdings (Central) Ltd Palmerston North. 18-Dec-1970

• Fieldair Ltd. Palmerston North. 30-Mar-1984

• Motiti Island Air Ltd., Mt. Marnganui Regd 11-Feb-1988

• Note: Rebuilt and repainted –Late 1980’s

• Kayala Holdings. Palmerston North, Regd 20-May-1990.

• Note . This entry is not reflected in NZ Aircraft Registration History

• Reportedly operated as Ag aircraft by Griffin Ag Air (Hallett M. Griffin)

• Reported based Kairanga.

• Kairanga Air Charter Ltd. Palmerston North. Regd 22-May-1990

• De registered 16-Jan-2010

• VH-WOZ • Walair Pty Ltd., dba Walcha Aerial Services,

Walcha, New South Wales, Australia

• Regd 16-Mar-1998. Re Regd 29-Mar-2006 under CASP 47

• Lonoaks Pty., Ltd., Armidale, New South Wales. Regd 19 Mar 2009

• Final "Superphosphate" top-dressing mission 06-Oct-2009 Guyra, New South Wales.

• ZK-AZB Reserved for Hallett Griffin - Griffin Ag-Air Ltd • Purchased  19-Mar-2009

• Ferried by David Salter on 09-Dec-2009 to Bankstown, New South Wales., for preparation to be shipped to New Zealand by sea.

• Griffin Ag-Air Ltd, Palmerston North • Regd 18-Sep-2010

• f/f after reassembly 05-Oct-2010

• Active •

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