NZFF

A bit more to my previous post .....





and later ....



May have been posted before .... but just in case.

That one really got around , the real Friendship to everyone, from NAC/ANZ/CIVAIR/MCA, also had a stint in the Islands then sure it was picked up by the RNZAF ..

Shot 2

omitchell wrote:Shot 2

That is a real doosie , show's a lot in that photo at Mount Cook.

ZK-DCB, an F27-200, C/N 10445.
Eventually sold off to the Pakistan Navy as AR-NZV.
Her sister ship, ZK-DCA C/N 10444, was also sold to the Pakistan Navy as AR-NZZ.

Below is ZK-DCB as she last looked as AR-NZV.



Lawrie.

I'd be guessing very much gone now, they were well past it after sitting in a Christchurch , the aircraft started growing insides , become a glasshouse for every form off vegetation and bug, of the four sitting sitting the many years least this went off to warmer climes.

Hey be a bloody easy paint to do

Ian Warren wrote: of the four sitting sitting the many years least this went off to warmer climes.

All three F27-200 Civair sister ships went off to the warmer climes Ian,...............................

ZK-DCA C/N 10444 AR-NZZ Pakistan Navy
ZK-DCB C/N 10445 AR-NZV Pakistan Navy
ZK-DCG C/N 10262 AR-NZE Pakistan Navy

Lawrie.

Thanks for that Lawrie , never followed up on destination after retirement, many ex NAC/ANZ machines ended up with shady careers.

Ian Warren wrote:Thanks for that Lawrie , never followed up on destination after retirement, many ex NAC/ANZ machines ended up with shady careers.

Yes, some did end up with shady careers,, and a lot unfortunately ended up with very sad and undignified endings, like the very first, ZK-BXA, smashed up by a scrap merchants digger at Dinard in France, in 2009.

Lawrie.

Arr the historical careers off the ones we and and the ones we don't want , be some thought too simply how many Ole Darts are still around be much to there demise,, not many off those left other the few getting looked after , then much requires an engineer.

Those folk at Mt Cook are using some damn fine scenery - looks just like Rob's

emfrat wrote:Those folk at Mt Cook are using some damn fine scenery - looks just like Rob's

Yeah .. AGREED !