Negative from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection.
Piper Grasshopper VQ-FAG at the end of a small airstrip. Unknown location in Fiji.
In the background is Taylorcraft VQ-FAE.
Negative from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection.
Engine of an ex-USAF Piper Grasshopper in a hangar, believed to be at Nausori airfield, Fiji.
Negative from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection.
3/4 front view of an ex-USAF Piper Grasshopper in a hangar, believed to be at Nausori airfield, Fiji.
3/4 front view of De Soutter G-AATI 'Aorangi' at RNZAF Station Wigram.
This aircraft was flown from England to Sydney by HL Piper and CE Kay, before shipping the aircraft across the Tasman.
Image from the Harold Lord Piper personal collection.
Portrait of Harold Lord Piper from his Aviator's certificate.
Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 166.
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young's information supplied "April 1943. Pip Piper NZ at the fighter pool in Algiers acting the fool again. See photos [1999-058.20 and 1999-058.23]."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
3/4 front view of a captured Italian Caproni Ca133 at Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Bryan Young's information supplied "October 1943. Sicily. Circumstances same as for [1999-058.32 and 1999-058.33]. This picture shows a typically antiquated Italian three engined bomber [sic] still in flying trim. Standing under the port wing is Pip Piper NZ who came down with malaria at the same time as myself. He was similarly awaiting transport back to his squadron the number and location of which I do not recall."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
No. 81 Squadron (?) pilot sitting in the cockpit of a Spitfire. Unknown location.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Pip Piper NZ April 1943."
Image from the Bryan Young personal collection.
Bryan Young's information supplied "Pip Piper NZ pilot making a clown of himself in a Spit' Mk IX at Setif in Algeria"
Side view of De Soutter G-AATI "Aorangi" with a Tiki nose art. Wigram Aerodrome.
This aircraft was flown from England to Sydney by HL Piper and CE Kay, before shipping the aircraft across the Tasman.
