After I arrived at Te Kuiti where No 2 grandson is working on a dairy farm, he had to go and feed some friends dogs about 20 minutes away and he mentioned that down the end of Kopaki Road was a helicopter base. So as it was on an alternative route home we called in to the Rotor Work Ltd base. I had not heard of them but they have quite a big operation and their website says that they have 11+ helicopters in their fleet. Two of them were parked up for the night:
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Hughes 269C ZK-HFX2 has been around since March 1992, which is quite remarkable for an agricultural helicopter.
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and the other Hughes 269C ZK-HRH2 is even older, having been first registered here in September 1990. I was told that it had had the same pilot for all those years which is doubly remarkable.
Thanks for your local knowledge Oliver.