ZK-AGM de Havilland D.H.83 Fox Moth
(c/n TS2810)
This Fox Moth was originally owned by Air
Travel (NZ) Ltd. It then passed to New Zealand
National
Airways in 1947, who named it 'Matuhi'. The dating of this shot
places it in their
ownership when the above photograph was taken in the early 1950s. It
passed to Wanganui
Aero
Work in 1956 (who retained the name). However, it was registered
to a T.A. Gardenier
when it was
destroyed by fire in a crash at Freezing Flat (near Minaret Creek, West
Wanaka)
in
1963. This aircraft had actually been
built from parts of ZK-ADH with a fuselage produced
earlier by
apprentices at the de
Havilland Technical School (hence the non standard c/n).