An open day at West Melton.

The Canterbury Aero Club held an open day at West Melton on Saturday the 30th.

Below is the Jim Chapman De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk ZK-ARL (c/n 61).

In the background is the Auster ZK-AYU and the pregnant Cub ZK-BNJ.

The De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth ZK-BLM (c/n DHNZ169) has 45 hours since a zero hours rebuild.

Mountain View Farms attended in their Piper PA-18A ZK-BNJ Super Cruiser 150 (c/n 18-5078).

 Graham Bethell dropped in with the Stoddard Hamilton SH-3R Glasair III ZK-PGB (c/n 3381).

 Another local Chipmunk is British built T10 ZK-XUK (c/n C1-0087) of Lou McAllister.

On site but not on public display was our second BEAGLE A.109 Airedale ZK-COA2 (c/n B.525).

Registered to Maximum Ventures Ltd on 23-12-2015 it is still in the process of being readied for its NZ CofA.

Of 1962 vintage in the UK it went out to Australia and became VH-UEP in January of 1963.