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Harvard
Serial #: KF403
Construction #: 14A-2103
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
  Harvard Mk. IIb
Name: None
Status: Unknown
Last info: 1993
History:
Delivered to the Royal Air Force as KF403.
  • Shipped straight to New Zealand, circa 1944.
Delivered to the Royal New Zealand Air Force as NZ1100.
  • BOC: November 1944.
  • Designated instructional airframe INST149
  • Retired, April 1949.
  • Stored by RNZAF, 1949-1959.
Bennett Aviation, Te Kuiti, New Zealand, 1959.
  • Open storage.
Childrens playground, Takapau, New Zealand, 1965-1988.
Recovered from playground and stored at Ardmore, 1988.
Bruce Black, Paraparaumu, New Zealand/Townsville, Queensland, Australia, circa 1988-1993.
  • Shipped from Auckland to Townsville, Queensland, Australia, December 1988.
  • Restored to airworthy, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, circa 1988-1991.
Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2020.
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