The Cessna 185 caught fire while undergoing annual maintenance at Malibu Park near Wakefield. A light aircraft owner lost his "pride and joy” when the 60-year-old plane was destroyed by a fire at a rural airstrip in Nelson. Emergency services were alerted to the incident about 1.26pm on Tuesday afternoon, when a Cessna 185 was engulfed in flames at the Malibu Park airfield in the Teapot Valley near Wakefield. Braden Fastier/Stuff Volunteer brigade members assess the rest of the aircraft at the airfield at the site of the fire. Deer said it was a very hard loss to take, as it was the 17th Cessna 185 ever built, and the first of its type registered in New Zealand.

Source: Stuff May 18, 2021 01:58 UTC