ZK-BFE  Cessna 180         (c/n  30869)

                                                

                                                       This aircraft has 1955 style livery, although it came into New Zealand in August of 1954.
                                                       Did the aircraft "Model Year" change the same time as the automobile industry?  Like all
                                                       Cessnas at the time, it was actually imported through Rural Aviation, although it was
                                                       operated by Wings Fertiliser Ltd of Napier.  It was sold to Air Contracts of Masterton
                                                       in 1958 and later to a private owner.  It was destroyed in a hangar fire at Masterton in
                                                      1965.