ZK.AJY  Percival P.28 Proctor 1                            (c/n  H.1)

                                   

                                           Formerly the RAF Proctor 1 R7485, this aircraft was the first to be built (in 1941) by F. Hills
                                           and Sons Limited of Stockton-on-Tees.  .  Civilianized after the war by Field Consolidated
                                           Aircraft Services it became G-AHMU on 9 May 1946.  It was soon sold to L.E. Clark,
                                           shipped to New Zealand and was assembled at Mangere.  It was registered as ZK-AJY in
                                           July 1946 (the first aircraft to have been registered after WW II) and then sold to C W Hewett
                                           of Gore, dba Southern Scenic Air Services.   On 28 October 1948 the aircraft landed on the
                                           hard sand of Big Bay. Fiordland to airfreight out whitebait.  It was caught by the incoming
                                           tide and when dragged to the soft sand higher up the beach hit driftwood on take-off, damaged
                                           the propellor and was basically written off.   (Inaccessibility of the site precluded easy retrieval
                                           and eventually the surf broke it up).