Starboard pressure ducting missing?
November 2008 New Zealand
Work has been progressing well, but then we struck a problem! As we worked forward with the pressure ducting on
the starboard side of the under-floor bay, we suddenly found a bit is missing. Or was there a difference between
what the parts book was indicating and the parts issued to ZK-BRF?
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Canadian Team helps New Zealand Team
September 2008 New Zealand
David Peters, who is restoring the British Columbia Aviation Museum V.757 Viscount c/n 224 CF-THG in Canada, has
tried to help by kindly sending various photos of their 700 series aircraft. Between these and the V.807 parts
book it's starting to make sense.
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Some parts of the restortation have resorted to guesswork
August 2008 New Zealand
NAC had modified systems and had updated the tabular pages of the parts book, but not the illustrations. This has
resulted in some educated guesswork being needed!
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Help need to replace missing parts
May 2008 New Zealand
The team at Ferrymead Heritage Park need help replacing parts removed from the aircraft by NAC - New Zealand
National Airways Corporation before restoration started in 1975.
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Starboard inner rear engine bay progresses
October 2007 New Zealand
The starboard inner rear engine bay has been stripped out, cleaned down and repainted. After a few hours of
cleaning the heat exchanger and the lower intake duct have been reinstalled.
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Work starts on some of those unseen areas
May 2007 New Zealand
Work on ZK-BRF has had a bit of a let up as some of the guys catch up on things domestic. They're
now working on some of those unseen areas and on small tedious parts so outward progress
isn't to obvious.
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'City of Christchurch' gets new paint
March 2007 New Zealand
A lot of progress has been made during the last six months on the restoration of the Ferrymead
Aeronautical Society's Viscount c/n 283 ZK-BRF.
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