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The Story of Tiger Moth ALJ in New Zealand

Reunited after 46 Years

ALJ Wanaka

ALJ Wanaka

I owned ZK ALJ in the sixties having acquired her in 1964 from Arnie Beckett of Frasertown as a trade in on a new Triumph Herald. ALJ was out of time and it was an expensive exercise to renew the C of …

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Bill Cookson DFC

 F/Lt W B Cookson DFC 

Bill Cookson commenced his flying career with the RNZAF in 1941 and completed flying training as a pilot in New Zealand before being posted to the UK, after acting as instructor for a period he was posted to a bomber squadron and completed 35 sorties …

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Air Super Ltd. Wairoa

Air Super Ltd. Wairoa
Stewart Harrison loader driver 1953/55


After the boom wool prices of 1950 farmers were making an all out effort to improve their properties and aerial topdressing became one of their tools.
Three neighboring farmers from Wairoa, Gordon Taylor, Bert Harrison, and Jim Lancaster, had …

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