Like all the early fabric covered aircraft, the frame was only there to drape the doped fabric over. I could lift a bare wing with one hand.
Also the range it could fly, Auckland to Sydney is about 1300 miles, the range of the 626 was 2,000 miles, it could have been capable of international flights.
would have been hard on the bum sitting that long though.
The 626 was such a fun aircraft to fly that it was saved from becoming a top dresser, by Jim Frogley, he bought it to be his first top dresser, but bought and used tiger moths instead. He claimed the 626 could climb faster than the ground, going into an unknown gully he could climb out, most aircraft can't and crash.