Monday, October 26, 2015

Vintage Cessna 172 at Wellington

Earlier today an original Cessna 172 visited Wellington. By original, I mean a "Cessna 172", not a 172A, but just plain, original "172".

Nice!

This aircraft, registration ZK-REV, is registered to a Te Awamutu [Waikato] address.

There are several differences between the very early and later model C172's. A couple of examples are the straight tail, and the two venturi tubes on the right hand side of the fuselage, just in front on the wing.

Anyway, here are the photos.

Cessna 172, ZK-REV

Cessna 172, ZK-REV

5 comments:

Andrew M said...

From 1957 according to the NZ Civair blog: http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/another-straight-tail-172.html

It sports a nice vintage colour scheme too, or should I say lack-of-colour scheme.

Cheers,
Andrew

Rodney said...

Yeah. I love seeing that these old aircraft are still flying!

Anonymous said...

There's actually a video of the flight https://youtu.be/9t6r2NGHHPY

Keith said...

Neat!

Rodney said...

Thanks for the video link, Anon, and yes Keith, it is!