This Friendship was delivered to Air New Zealand in 1961 and wfu in 1992. It is now preserved in one of the halls of the Transport and Toy museum, cramped with cars and aircraft. Unfortunately, this makes it impossible to take a decent picture of the aircraft.

Another aircraft cramped in one of the halls of this museum among dozens of old cars. This An-2 was delivered in 1975 to the DOSAAF which became ROSTO Russia in 1991. Two years later it was sold to Sporting Aviacijaa and became LY-AKH. Only three years later, in 1996, the aircraft was shipped to the Transport and Toy Museum in New Zealand.

25 years earlier, in 1991, I had seen this aircraft after it had just arrived for long-term storage at Polish AF base Mierzecice (see https://www.airhistory.net/photo/224316/5141). From there, it was shipped to Australia in 1992. It remained in storage in crates at Bankstown, NSW and was later shipped to New Zealand for display at the Transport and Toy museum. It still carries its former 62 PLM badge, but now has a strange tiger c/s which it never wore while active.

This aircraft was active with the RAAF from 1954 until 1973. It had been preserved in Perth and at the West Australian Museum of Aviation at Jandakot Airport, before it was shipped to New Zealand in 1993.

ZK-ABL crashed at Tauranga, August 16, 1936. At the time of the photo Wanaka did not have an aerodrome. First airstrip was near Mt Iron in the late 1940s, since replaced by the current airport. Howard Haugh Collection photo. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia