I was lucky enough as a kid to get a few rides in North Shore's Cub ZK-BKU ( then red and white ).
Stunned by the basic and spartan interior but amazed by the performance and handling.
If you learned in a taildragger at North Shore on grass you knew you could pretty much handle anything !
I recall BKU was damaged by wind in the 80's and written off.... Later to be replaced with another Cub which they may well still have ?...



Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
Oh dear...still have a soft spot for the Cub...side slipping over the fence and stopping in about 300 ft at the Barrier, then watching the Auckland Aero Club planes try and stop before they ran off the end of the strip - it was an advantage learning on a decent plane on a grass strip (as Dairy Flat was at the time)....