Wednesday 28 January 2015

Meanwhile at NZTG

The Hairy Mole Rat was active at Tauranga today and came across this new arrival.
 N4862 (c/n L5829) is registered as a Taylorcraft DCO-65.
It was built as one of a batch of 900 Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper's for the USAAF for observational duties. The design is based on the earlier DC-65 model (Continental 65hp) but with a cut down rear fuselage.
 Post WWII it was sold to civilian hands.
It has just recently arrived in NZ and is currently for sale.

2 comments:

  1. My L-2M N75891 was supposedly ship to New Zealand a couple years ago. Would like to know what it looks like now.

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  2. Hello there (Claudius ?)

    N75891 went to Australia and was placed on the AUF (Australian Ultralight Federation) register as 24-6268 on 16 April 2014.

    If you GOOGLE search 24-6268 you will find a couple of photos of it in Western Australia.

    Cheers

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