Titan Mustangs at SAANZ Tauranga Fly In

This is my first post from the SAANZ Flyin at Tauranga held over the Waitangi Day weekend, 5 - 7 February. The weekend felt different to me this time as the emphasis has changed from the SAANZ aircraft being at the centre of things, to a big airshow with the SAANZ aircraft off to one side. Sport aircraft numbers were down from previous flyins with around 80 sport aircraft present on the Saturday. However on the plus side the weather was great.

This seems to be the year when many of the Titan Mustangs that have been being built have been completed, and here are 3 new ones from Tauranga. ZK-MJD (not yet registered), is named "Frenesi" and is powered by a 2.7 litre Suzuki motor. It is painted up to represent the aircraft 0f Thomas L Hayes of the USAF.

More details of this aircraft can be found on this poster that was displayed in front of the aircraft.

The second new Titan Mustang is ZK-MPC (also not yet registered), is powered by a 3.5 litre Honda V6 motor and is named "Hurry Home Honey". It is painted up to represent the aircraft of Captain Richard A Peterson of the USAF.

Again, more details about this aircraft can be found on this poster displayed in front of the aircraft.

And the third Titan Mustang is ZK-TVG which was built by Vaughan Peters and Geoff Pascoe and was first registered on 18/7/08. It is owned by the TVG syndicate. This one is a Class 2 microlight version with a Rotax 912S motor. It is displayed here in the SAANZ display hangar.

I will post more on Titan Mustangs and other Mustang replicas in future posts.