NZDF-SERIALS
Australian & New Zealand Military Aircraft Serials & History

RNZAF Hawker Tomtit
NZ50 to NZ53

     
 

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Serial c/n Aircraft history
NZ50 ? Arrived at Lyttleton by ship on 24 February 1931 and taken to Wigram for assembly.
Converted to instructional airframe INST10 with the New Zealand Railways operated Technical Training Centre at Addington, Christchurch.
Transferred to the TTS Rongotai in September 1940.
NZ51 ? Arrived at Lyttleton by ship on 24 February 1931 and taken to Wigram for assembly.
Damaged in landing collision with Moth at Hobsonville on 29 March 1932.
The aircraft collided about 10 feet above the ground and did not fly again until late in 1936 after being rebuilt.
Converted to instructional airframe INST8 with the New Zealand Railways operated Technical Training Centre at Hutt Valley, Wellington.
Later reduced to produce.
NZ52 ? Arrived at Lyttleton by ship on 24 February 1931 and taken to Wigram for assembly.
Converted to instructional airframe with the NZ Railways operated Technical Training Centre at Hillside, Dunedin.
Transferred to the TTS Rongotai in September 1940.
Later transferred to the Wairarapa and eventually reduced to produce.
NZ53 ? Arrived at Lyttleton by ship on 24 February 1931 and taken to Wigram for assembly.
Converted to instructional airframe INST13 with the New Zealand Railways operated Technical Training Centre at Otahuhu, Auckland.
Transferred to the TTS Rongotai in September 1940.
Transferred to the ATC at Murchison.
Broken up at Rongotai in 1943 and reduced to produce
 
   
     

 
     

Author: Ivan Prince (Updated by Brendan Cowan)

Source:NZ Wings August 1982. AHSNZ publications 1966, 1967, 1974, 1975.

Emails: Ross Polkinghorne, Brendan Cowan.

Updated 25 November 2013
 

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