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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-84 Dragon / DH-89 Dragon Rapide
    Latest Model:DH-84 Dragon
    Last Military Serial:A34-68 RAAF
    Construction Number:DHA2057
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-AXI
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-84 sn A34-68 RAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stan Smith Collection, North Shore Airport, Dairy Flat, Auckland, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-84.
    De Havilland DH 84 Dragon 2057

    24 March 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A34-68.

    29 April 1945

    To Butler Air Transport Ltd with new c/r VH-AEF.

    1 June 1948

    To Qantas Empire Airways Ltd keeping c/r VH-AEF.

    14 May 1953

    To Fawcett Aviation Pty Ltd keeping c/r VH-AEF.

    11 July 1953

    Civil registration, VH-AEF, cancelled.

    14 July 1953

    To Rolvin Airways of Palmerston North with new c/r ZK-AXI.

    17 May 1954

    To Nelson Aero Club keeping c/r ZK-AXI.

    April 1963


    Photographer: Murray Whitehead
    Notes: ZK-AXI at Paraparaumu NZ in April 1963, Nelson Aero Club on nose.

    1 June 1964

    To Arthur J Bradshaw of Nelson keeping c/r ZK-AXI.

    10 April 1967

    To Jim Bergman and Earl Cox/Auckland Flying School keeping c/r ZK-AXI.


    Photographer: John Hopton Collection

    23 April 1967

    Damaged.
    Damaged on take off at Ardmore, NZ.

    4 May 1967

    Civil registration, ZK-AXI, cancelled.

    1983

    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Ardmore to Dairy Flat - as a restoration project.

    3 March 1997

    To G S G A Smith, Albany with new c/r ZK-AXI.
    Operated with markings: Taniwha

    Based at Stan Smith Collection, North Shore Airport, Dairy Flat, Auckland, North Island.
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    18 December 2009


    Photographer: David Paull
    Notes: At Haast

    29 March 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the Classic Fighters Airshow at Blenheim, New Zealand
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