![[ZK-AYO Auster J/1B Aiglet photograph]](https://collection.motat.nz/records/images/xlarge/2130/a19eaedd2999d9c3469226dc1f6596f8891e6bf6.jpg "[ZK-AYO Auster J/1B Aiglet photograph]")
[ZK-AYO Auster J/1B Aiglet photograph]
Maker and role
John Page, Photographer
Production date
03 Mar 1970
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Object detail
Accession number
PHO-2018-5.1.413
Maker
Description
Black and white photograph of a ZK-AYO Auster J/1B Aiglet parked on grass in front of a open brick walled aircraft hanger. View is of starboard side; aircraft has 'ZK-AYO' on vertical stabilizer. Print of negative PHO-2018-5.1.414
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 photograph : black and white ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection
Credit Line
John Page. 03 Mar 1970. [ZK-AYO Auster J/1B Aiglet photograph], PHO-2018-5.1.413. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Production place
Taupo District
Waikato
New Zealand
Waikato
New Zealand
Current rights
Public comments
Thank you for your comment and sharing your and your fathers story with us
- Walsh Memorial Library, MOTAT posted one year ago.
I flew in this particular aircraft as a nine year old child on 21 January 1961 with my father as the pilot ferrying the aircraft from Ardmore to Mangere for participation in the final Auckland Aero Club (grass strip) Pageant, prior to the handing-over of the Mangere Field for construction into Auckland International Airport. My father A.J. Paterson was a WWII Commercial Pilot's Licence Holder, extending into peacetime, as a four-engined B29 Consolidated Liberator pilot over Europe in the closing stages, and for some time straight after, ferrying undisclosed materiel between Norway and England .. to help facilitate the American closure of the Pacific Theatre His War File Record details remain embargoed forever due to the sensitivity that was involved with this particular mission group of flying operations, and also for other flying duties carried out for the RAF, using advanced captured enemy navigational items, and continuing for around eight months after VE Day. These flying duties included inaugural radio beacon directed manual landings of heavy fully operationally loaded aircraft, under zero visibility conditions . . Later as an NZ DEF HQ person in my own right, I was able to lay my hands on my father's personnel file. Between the two file covers was just one piece of paper .. his final demobilising pay slip. [My father's two RNZAF Squadron Leader elder brothers' personnel files were approximately 3 inches thick each, filled with every conceivable detail of their wartime training, flying duties, operational missions, medical examinations, commanding officers' comments and annual reports, and pay details, etc] My father was my hero . . It seemed to me he could just naturally fly any aeroplane he sat in without any instruction and was performing looping and spins within the first four hours of ab initio training. RIP Father XO
- Craig Paterson posted one year ago.