ZK-CWQ Fletcher FU-24-950M
(c/n 64)
This was thje former VH-CYV,
orignally bulilt as ZK-BOL. It was then leased in
Australia
for a five year period as VH-BOT,
remaining as such until
returning to New Zealand as
ZK-BOL again (in
August 1963). In April 1967 it
sustained major damage in a crash and
was
rebuilt as ZK-CWQ, going back to Australia shortly after its
rebirth. It returned
to New Zealand (as
ZK-CWQ) in 1984, was leased for a short while in the Solomon
Islands as H4-AAR,
then returned as ZK-CWQ once again. It was finally written off in
another crash at
Taupo in December
1987. David Carter's photo above was at Mascot in
1971.