ZK-AOL  de Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth                (c/n  3629)

                                       

                                           More intrepid airmen.  This machine was registered to the New Plymouth Aero Club when this
                                           1950 shot was taken.   ZK-AOL was actually a pre-war Hatfield.built Tiger which went to New
                                           Zealand in 1937 as ZK-AFN for the Auckland Aero Club. It, (along with ZK-AFO), was actually
                                           the first Tiger in New Zealand. After its impressment as NZ719 it went to New Plymouth in 1947.
                                           Following a crash at Mangere in 1959 parts of it were used in the rebuild of ZK-BRB (NZ1459).