ZacYates
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Hi all,
Last year the CFI at my local aero club, Jonathan Mauchline, rebuilt a crash damaged Scout Mk.III to airworthiness (work in progress thread here). The project from recovery to first flight took about seven months. The aircraft had been flown and registered in the 1990s before an accident sometime around 2001 ended the first part of its career.
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By January word of his success had spread and in the space of two weeks we travelled and collected a further two examples of the type! Both of these have never been registered in New Zealand but have flown. One is a Mk.I converted to a Mk.III and is close to flying, just awaiting repairs to the fuel tank after having been stored in a suburban garage for the past few decades. It needed very little work other than a good clean and some new hardware. It is now registered ZK-SLF:
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The third - actually the second we collected - is a rare Mk.IV now registered ZK-JJN. This was damaged in an accident in January 2019 and stored since then. The main focus at the moment is repairing the pod
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Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Last year the CFI at my local aero club, Jonathan Mauchline, rebuilt a crash damaged Scout Mk.III to airworthiness (work in progress thread here). The project from recovery to first flight took about seven months. The aircraft had been flown and registered in the 1990s before an accident sometime around 2001 ended the first part of its career.
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_5013 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_5378 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_9039 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_9069 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_9106 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_9122 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
DSC_9128 by Zac Yates, on FlickrBy January word of his success had spread and in the space of two weeks we travelled and collected a further two examples of the type! Both of these have never been registered in New Zealand but have flown. One is a Mk.I converted to a Mk.III and is close to flying, just awaiting repairs to the fuel tank after having been stored in a suburban garage for the past few decades. It needed very little work other than a good clean and some new hardware. It is now registered ZK-SLF:
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on FlickrThe third - actually the second we collected - is a rare Mk.IV now registered ZK-JJN. This was damaged in an accident in January 2019 and stored since then. The main focus at the moment is repairing the pod
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
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