ZK-AXQ Auster
5
(c/n 1652)
This is another of
Jim Dyson's photos kindly supplied by David Molesworth. I
actually have
a shot of this machine, but the above image is so much
nicer than mine I shan't bother to scan it!
ZK-AXQ was a sister ship to
-AXP, being ex RAF TJ638 and then on the UK civil register
as G-ALKK to A.H. Wheeler of
Farnborough. It was sold by Shackleton's (the UK's largest
aircraft broker of the day) to the
Auckland Aero Club in January of 1950, in whose service it is
displayed above.
By mid 1955 it was flying with the Hauraki Aero Club of out
Thames. However,
on 6 Sept 1955 the aircraft was flying in low
cloud/misty conditions when it flew into high ground
in the vicinty of Wood's Mill, Mamaku, and was
written off.