Aerial topdressing is the aerial application of fertilisers over farmland using agricultural aircraft. It was developed in New Zealand in the 1940s and...

of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific spreading of fertilizer is also known as aerial topdressing in some countries. Many countries...

converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertilizer (aerial topdressing); in these roles, they are referred...

Being one of the first aircraft designed for aerial topdressing, the Fletcher has also been used for other aerial applications as a utility aircraft, and for...

commercially unsuccessful British agricultural aircraft designed for the aerial topdressing market which opened up in New Zealand in the early 1950s. Constructed...

utility roles, such as cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and civil aviation duties. Shortly after the...

derivative of the Fletcher FU-24 (later called the PAC Fletcher) aerial topdressing aircraft, manufactured by the Pacific Aerospace Corporation in Hamilton...

Canada during the type's wartime years. After the development of aerial topdressing in New Zealand, large numbers of ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force Tiger...

Industrial Technology in Japan. The wing design of the Fletcher FU-24 aerial topdressing plane was loosely based on that of the FD-25 Defender. Almost 300...

aerial topdressing. Maber, John (24 November 2008). "Topdressing – Origins of aerial topdressing". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved...

former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic...

in various roles within the civil market, such as air racing and aerial topdressing. Approaches were also made by Miles to introduce the Whitney Straight...

overseas in 1951/52, six more were later imported and converted for aerial topdressing. A single Lodestar served with the Israeli Air Force during the 1948...

OBE (11 February 1896 – 29 May 1981) was a New Zealand farmer and aerial-topdressing operator. He was born in Gisborne, New Zealand on 11 February 1896...

served several other roles, being adapted for—amongst other things—aerial topdressing experiments, although to avoid competition with private enterprise...

World War II making use of war surplus planes and ex WW2 pilots for aerial topdressing. The cobalt was mixed with crushed phosphate rock which was obtained...

Pacific Fleet. In 1945, Avengers were involved in pioneering trials of aerial topdressing in New Zealand that led to the establishment of an industry which...

TBF Avengers flown by 42 Squadron pilots were involved in the first aerial topdressing trials carried out in the world, spreading superphosphate fertiliser...

a replacement for the de Havilland Tiger Moth in the New Zealand aerial topdressing market by Luigi Pellarini for Waitomo Aircraft. The prototype was...

crawler tractor, and then oversowing with swedes. In 1951 he began aerial topdressing his farm with a war-surplus Tiger Moth. (Moss 1956) This project expanded...

Squadron received P-3B Orions in 1965. A research flight helped develop Aerial Topdressing.[citation needed] In 1957, the Territorial Air Force (TAF) was formally...

Arthur Coningham (RAF officer) There had been some experiments with aerial topdressing in the 1930s and these continued after the war. By the early 1950s...

Zealand and Fiji. Returning to civilian life in 1954, he set up an aerial topdressing company and later undertook conservation work. He died in 2006, aged...

market for a de Havilland Tiger Moth replacement in New Zealand's Aerial Topdressing industry. From the outset it was intended that a ½-scale model of...

was established as part of No. 41 Squadron to conduct experimental aerial topdressing flights using Grumman Avenger aircraft. In mid-1948 three No. 41 Squadron...

which had previously been unsuitable due to low phosphate levels, but aerial topdressing made the land economic. About 2.5 km northwest of the centre of Cooks...

by Fletcher Aviation. T-15 - 1952 FU-24, agricultural aircraft for Aerial Topdressing market, prototype built by Fletcher Aviation, large scale production...

Aerodrome continued to be used as the local airport with flightseeing, aerial topdressing, and helicopter operations based there. The airport was managed by...

popular with gliding over the next few years, as a base for local aerial topdressing aircraft operations, and skydiving. Lighting: Nil Fuel: Air BP Avgas...

Fletcher Aviation. Thorp T-15 - 1952 FU-24, agricultural aircraft for Aerial Topdressing market, prototype built by Fletcher Aviation, large scale production...