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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-83 Fox Moth
    Latest Model:DH-83C Fox Moth
    Construction Number:FM48
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-APT
    Compressed ID:deHavilland Canada DH-83C cn FM48 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:G S and G A Smith, Albany

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-83C by deHavilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    To G S G A Smith/North Shore Airfield, Auckland with new c/r ZK-APT (DH 83C Fox Moth, FM48).

    Based at Stan Smith Collection, North Shore Airport, Dairy Flat, Auckland, North Island.
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    Based at Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
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    Markings Applied: ZK-AEK
    Fuselage of the original ZK-APT is used in the displayed aircraft.

    29 March 2013


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

    14 March 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, NZ

    23 October 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: In Air Travel NZ Ltd-colors with spread wings at MOTAT, Auckland, New Zealand

    21 March 2018


    Photographer: Keith Bollands
    Notes: Seen hangared at Ardmore. The registration was restored in April 2009 so this is presumably a different airframe to the one pictured at MOTAT?

    11 September 2018

    To PMH Aviation Limited, Blenheim keeping c/r ZK-APT.

    11 September 2018

    To G S and G A Smith, Albany keeping c/r ZK-APT.

    22 January 2023


    Photographer: Simon Hills
    Notes: Seen at Wanganui NZ, giving many joy flights


    Photographer: AJJ Collection
    Notes: Currently scanning our negatives of NZ aircraft. Cannot find a web example with the nose marking shown in the attached crop of the nose of ZK-APT at full scanned resolution. Can you identify the operator?
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    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
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     Terry Fletcher
    Simon Hills
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