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Old 5th Oct 2014, 11:08
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Jonfra
 
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There is a former RNZAF Bristol used somewhere in the upper North island of New Zealand as some sort of accommodation in a adventure camp/lodge.

I seem to recall there was one in a museum at Nelson and the other at Omaka aerodrome near Blenheim.

For a time one was a tea room at Wahi Beach, but have never found it in my own visits to that location.

There is a wingless (donor airframe?) fuselage on a hillside airstrip somewhere in PNG which I have seen from Photos. There is another intact aircraft at a museum in Argentina.

As I understand it they had to be retired because the source of available propellers dried up. Propellers had a finite life.
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