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.