Air freight

Waugh & Josephson the NSW (Australia) Caterpillar dealer used to have a Beachcraft Barron plane i think it was in the late 70,s through the 80,s. Pretty sure Wigmores in West Australia also had planes at there disposal. No better way to get parts to remote locations in a hurry.

Nice aircraft photo. The ship Looks to be a DeHavilland, 1920 ish. See if you can locate what happened to it.

[quote="ruakina cat"]Hi summer is coming to a end and the light is fading so have more time to post pics. My father served his time with gough gough & hammer here in New Zealand so have some interesting pics.
The picture of this air craft was taken at the Milson air field Palmerston North which was a branch that covered a wide area. We have a picture of the same plane on the beach of the west coast of the South Island with my grandfather standing beside it which meant the plane traveled all around New Zealand. As far as we know cat never owned the air craft but it flew parts with the mail service ( I don't thick a D8 crank shaft would be on the order list ) there has been research done on the air craft but very little information has turned up. Year of the picture is unknown I just thought you my find it interesting that cat was in to this. Did it happen any where else in the world?
Thanks for looking.[/quote]

Hi interesting that you have identified the air craft we think the two pictures are taken around the mid 30's.
We know that it is not a tiger moth, history of the plane has been done and well it just disappeared no log of a crash.

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Daron