Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre

[Rural53]

In the South Island of New Zealand at Mandeville there is the Croydon Aircraft Company and the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre. The Heritage Centre has a collection of, mostly flying, vintage aircraft (This is a repost from my South Island trip photos as it should probably be in this section. Also I don't know why Tapatalk posts some photos smaller).

de Havlland 83 Fox Moth. This was the first registered passenger aircraft in NZ.





Locks for the folding wings

DH90 Dragonfly




DH83C Fox Moth, a Canadian built version


DH89 Dragon Rapide/Dominie. This one I've been for a ride in.




Another DH89 under restoration

[Rural53]

Non-de Havilland


Snark HA1 composite single seater microlight, the prototype of more successful Snark designs.


Bantam microlight, now built by Croydon Aircraft.


Musger Mg 19a Steinadler Gull Wing Glider



Ex RNZAF Aermacchi 339CB


Auster J-1B Aiglet






Replica - 1910 Pither Monoplane. Completed in 2006 and flown at Mandeville. The pilot was microlight veteran Jerry Chisum who declared the design controllable - just!

[Rural53]

A few DH82A Tigermoths

[DeadNutz]

Great pictures and thank you. Does the 1910 Pither use wing warping instead of ailerons?

[Rural53]

Yes, it uses wing warping. At about 1:00 in this video you can see the warping.

[muddy]

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Amazing the simplicity yet over engineering of old machines.

Sent from the twisted mind of the mudman