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    Airframe Family: Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) CA-2/6 Wackett Trainer
    Latest Model:YA-1 Yeoman Cropmaster
    Construction Number:119
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-CPW
    Compressed ID:Yeoman YA-1 cn 119 cr ZK-CPW
    Latest Owner or Location:Ashburton Aviation Museum, Ashburton Aerodrome, Ashburton, Canterbury, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a YA-1 by Yeoman.
    Built at Bankstown by Cropmaster Aircraft Pty Ltd, Bankstown.250hp Continental IO-470-R engine driving a Hartzell CS propeller.Painted white with blue trim

    19 July 1965

    To Cropmaster Aircraft Pty Ltd, Bankstown Airport, Sydney NSW with new c/r VH-TPM.

    6 May 1966

    To Southern Aviation Ltd, Gore with new c/r ZK-CPW.

    31 August 1974

    Withdrawn from use.
    Retired at Gore by Southern Aviation Ltd. Total airframe time 2,832 hours.

    1 June 1989

    To Lindsay A. McNicol, Oamaru keeping c/r ZK-CPW.

    Circa 1996

    To Ashburton Aviation Museum, Ashburton Aerodrome, Ashburton, Canterbury, South Island.
    On loan from Lindsay A. McNicol, Oamaru.
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    14 March 2009


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 2009 photo at Ashburton Museum in New Zealand
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