ZK-AVB de
Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth
(c/n 84568)
Robertson Air
Services was a Hamilton based topdressing concern in the 1950s which
operated a fairly large fleet of
Tigers. Several of them were ex UK or Australian civil
registered machines.
ZK-AVB, seen here out in the weed patch, was one of the former,
being ex
G-AKXH. This aircraft had previously been the RAF's
T6101. It was imported
into New
Zealand in 1950 specifically to be a topdresser. It was
written off in an
accident at Tirau on 17 feb 1954.