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                                                                                                           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.
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  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.

Kiwi Beavers

Visitors so far

Put together by:
Graeme Mills
Rutherford NSW
Australia e-mail

Had a fantastic day with ex
ZK-CKD at Rose Bay, Sydney.
Thanks to Steve Krug for an
unforgettable scenic flight up to
Palm Beach and return.
More photos on CKD's page.
www.sydneybyseaplane.com

Received this book
from Lou Forhecz
in Greytown, 50
Years of the
Fletcher.
You can contact
Lou here

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

The Immortal Beaver is available
on DVD. Agreat story about the
recovery of "Olivia" from the
Arizona desert and subsequent
rebuild. Starring Harrison Ford.
The DVD is available here.

A list of current
Beavers on the
Australian
Register can be
viewed here

Some"young'ins" at
the Ag reunion .More
Reunion photos here