ZK-ARS  Cessna UC-78 Bobcat                         (c/n  3668)

                                             

                                                 Outside of the United States and Canada, very few Cessna UC-78s (or T-50s, as the civil
                                                 versions were known) made it onto the world's civil registers.  New Zealand claimed two.
                                                 The above machine was an ex USAAF UC-78 (42-58176) which went to the New Zealand
                                                 Civil Aviation Department in 1948 along with sister ship ZK-ART.   Both were sold in 1950
                                                 to Aircraft Service Co of Auckland.  This shot was taken circa 1948 and I am assured it is
                                                -ARS although the rego doesn't show.  ZK-ARS was broken up at Mangere in 1950.  Reports
                                                suggest that the steel tubing was used to make topdressing hoppers for Tigers.