Convair 580 Ferry Flight to New Zealand Ends in Emergency Landing at Gisborne

Flight Details and Crew Composition On 15 June 2003, a Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter Ltd. Convair 580, registration C-GKFJ, serial number 114, departed Kelowna, British Columbia, for a delivery flight to New Zealand. The aircraft was sold to Field Aviation of New Zealand and was being ferried under a Canadian ferry permit without a certificate of airworthiness. The crew consisted of two Canadian pilots and a New Zealand ground engineer. The flight included a 29-hour rest stop in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a refueling stop in Pago Pago, American Samoa, before departing for Palmerston North, New Zealand, on 17 June at 2040 UTC.