
| Welcome to the Kiwi Beavers Website. This site is dedicated to the De Havilland Beaver aircraft that were registered in New Zealand. Most of them were used in the Topdressing role, there now remains just one still active Topdressing. The site seems to have expanded with other aircraft types involved in topdressing added. You will find each individual Beaver here. There are photos of other aircraft also used for Topdressing here and here. You can also use the buttons above to navigate the site. If you require any original, non-water-marked photos, please contact me Disclaimer: (All content copyright Graeme Mills) I have undertaken to ensure that the information on this website is accurate. The reader acknowledges that kiwibeavers.com and/or any of the contributors to these pages cannot be considered liable for any action resulting from any information published on the kiwibeavers website. When you use any information obtained from this website, you do so at your own risk. (You may use any images on this site for your own personal use. For any commercial use, posting on other sites or reproduction, please contact the author.) Thanks to the following people for their time and effort getting images and information to me. Bill Luther in Auckland, NZ whom I loaded for in 1985-86 and 1997-98 Neville Worsley in Rotorua, NZ for the majority of pics on this site and numerous phone calls and stories Allister Jenks for his photos of BBX. Allister has an amazing site ZK-ARJ "Spud" Tait in Gisborne NZ who has given me a heap of stuff!! He has "The Toolshed" there. Neil Aird in Kingston, Toronto, Canada for his support and allowing the use of his photos which are also on his massive Beaver Site DHC-2.com Andy Stevenson in Gisborne, NZ of Farmers Air Phil Goodwin in Gisborne, NZ who drove for Cooksons a while back Peter Lewis in Auckland, NZ for his amazing clean shots from yester-year Lance Harding up at Warwick, Queensland for his photos of his father John flying BXN and photos of other aircraft. Lou Forhecz in Greytown, NZ for his images and videos Bob Cranston in Masterton, NZ who has just retired after a lifetime of Ag flying Doug Sklenars up in Rosedale, Queensland, at least I think he's still there. Doug flew Beavers for a while Bob Allen also up that way in Cooroy, Queensland, one of Fieldair's first Beaver pilots Peter Brown in Dalby, Queensland for his DVD's and photos Paul Corrin in Gisborne, NZ who is part of the GAPS Museum there Harley Cadwallader in Napier, NZ and ex Beaver & DC3 pilot Barry Christie up in Walcha, NSW who owned ex ZK-AZB Ray Deerness in Wanganui, NZ who has pictures and info on every aircraft in NZ and elsewhere Darby Dunstan in Gisborne NZ an ex Engineer Derek Erskine in Wellington NZ who flew Beavers Jim Frogley in Havelock North NZ who owns ZK-BBX which is still used for topdressing Janic Geelen in Auckland NZ who wrote the Topdressers books. His site is here Pete Gordon who is flying Choppers in Taupo, NZ Granville Jones in Gisborne NZ Owen Martin in Leeton NSW Les Marshall in Auckland NZ for organising photos of the Warbirds Beaver at Ardmore Trevor Nixon in Taihape NZ who has driven for John Harding for decades!! Peter Ritter in Marton NZ Mark Pothan in Fielding NZ for his wonderful shots of CMU and CGX back in 1965 Bruce Thompson in Gisborne who flew for Fieldair for over 30 years Clive Thorne in Masterton NZ Frank Wright in Tauranga for his photos of some of his great restoration work over the years. Good luck with the latest addition Frank. Paul Rickard from the Gisborne Herald Colin Hunter from Papakura who is an Ace photographer Hallett Griffin at Kairanga for purchasing AZB.....again!! Tony Field in Gisborne for some of Lawson Field's photo albums and photos. Alain Rioux in Canada for his glorious shots. Fantastic work Alain. Colin Sutherland in Rotorua for his shots of BDI and AZB. Clive Wilkinson from Aviation News for photos from the 60th Ag Aviation Reunion Don Selby at Pahiatua for updated info on CFU and his magnificent photo collection. |
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| 27th June 2009 FIELDAIR REUNION I have been asked to organise Fieldair's 60th Anniversary. This will be held October 23-25 (Labour Weekend) 2010 at Gisborne. E-mail me if you will be attending. More info to follow Have updated a few more DC3 pages |