ZK-AEK  de Havilland D.H.83 Fox Moth            (c/n   4033)

                                                                                 

                                             The above image is via the National Library of New Zealand whilst the photo below, from the
                                             Ken Meeham collection, shows the Fox Moth in the early 1950s.  Originally registered G-ACAJ
                                             in 1932 it was flown by F/L E.H. Fieldon for HRH the Prince of Wales.  In December of that
                                             year it was re-registered G-ACDD.  It went to Belgium in 1933 as OO-ENC registered to Guy
                                             Hansez..  Returning to de Havillands for overhaul,  it was sold in New Zealand in 1935. 
                                             It crashed on the Franz Joseph Glacier in 1943 and was out of action then until 1947.  After
                                             several different owners it was exported to Fiji in 1957 as VQ-FAT.   Struck off that register
                                             in 1959, it was 'discovered' and repatriated  back to New Zealand in 1990, and restored as
                                             ZK-AEK.  In 2007 it was purchased by a Canadian owner as CF-YPM (now C-FYPM,
                                             of course) and is now part of the Vintage Wings of Canada on display at Gatineau, Quebec.