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| name           = Tui Sports
| image          = Sir Keith Park Memorial Aviation Collection.JPG
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|type            = REQUIRED
|national origin = [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]]
|manufacturer    = Fred North
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|first flight    = 4 January 1934
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|status          = under restoration / replication
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The '''Tui Sports''' was a [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]] light aircraft of the 1930s.

The Tui Sports was a small single seat aerobatic single bay biplane of fabric covered wooden construction with a highly streamlined circular section fuselage. It was powered by a Szekely 3 cylinder engine. The Tui Sports was built by Fred North at Dannevirke and first flown by Allan McGruer from a field near Whenuapai on 4 January 1934. It was named after the highly maneuverable [[Biology:Tūī|Tūī]] bird. The silver and gold Tui became very popular, being used for aero club flying and airline pilot training. Originally intended as a one off homebuilt, its success encouraged Fred North and the Dominion Aircraft Company to prepare for production in [[Place:Auckland|Auckland]], however New Zealand's declaration of war against {{wipe|Germany}} on 3 September 1939 resulted in these plans being postponed and latter scrapped. The Tui Sports crashed on Ōhope beach in 1941. As of 2006 it is undergoing a slow rebuild at the Museum of Transport and Technology.

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