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Feilding on 20-10-2018
Allan Wooller has been on the prowl and visited Feilding on Saturday the 20-10-2018 and offers these pics for you. One tidy looking Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub ZK-BRY (c/n 18-5687) as listed with B B...
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Light Miniature Aircraft LMA 5X-W Cubs of New Zealand
The final new aircraft type to appear on the New Zealand Civil Register for 2007 was the Light Miniature Aircraft LMA 5X-W. We had previously had several of its smaller brothers in the 75% Cub...
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Evektor Aircraft of New Zealand
The first type of new sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand in 2008 was the Evektor Aerotechnik SportStar Plus, the first of which was registered on 20/2/08.Evektor Aerotechnik is a Czech...
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Otago Aero Club Flyaway to Kyeburn Station 28/10/18
The Otago Aero Club organised a flyaway last Saturday to Kyeburn Station, which is near Ranfurly inland from Oamaru. Reuben Morison flew in the R&B Bearhawk ZK-FHR2 and took the photos below:Some...
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Christchurch this afternoon 31-10-2018
Bill Hales Hughes 369D ZK-HSD (c/n 1090595D) outside Heli Maintenance at Christchurch this afternoon.Earlier posts can be seen HERE Robinson R44 Clipper ZK-IJA (c/n 0893) of the ADT Trust from...
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PAC 750XL ZK-XLR at Taieri
Reuben Morison photo'd the PAC 750XL ZK-XLR at Taieri recently. The history of this aircraft has been covered in a previous post HEREIt can be seen from the photos that it has been converted to a...
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New Maule for Wanaka
Custom Aviation at Taieri Airfield, Dunedin is currently repainting one of NZ's newest imports, a Maule MXT-7-180A. This aircraft used to be N58RN (c/n 20047C). This is one of two aircraft of this type...
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Aircraft at Custom Aviation, Taieri airfield
Piper PA-18A-150 (c/n 18-5686) ZK-BRX getting some heavy maintenance and a repaint. This aircraft is based in Balclutha.Aero Designs Pulsar XP ZK-CBL (c/n 347) getting some engine work, which turned...
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HeliOtago's new rescue helicopter
HeliOtago has recently acquired an EC145 ZK-IWD (c/n 9156) which worked for a couple of months with HeliOtago as a corporate charter heli, but has got rescue decals in the last two weeks and is...
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NZRT Friday Run
Nothing really new today but did manage to capture Barnsys Hughes 269C ZK-HXV (c/n 54-0304) flying through. Pounding the circuit was The short wing Piper PA-22-150 Caribbean taildragger ZK-ZTH (c/n...
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Black Sands Affected by Weather
Sadly, for the second year in a row the Waikato Chapter of SAANZ's Black Sands flyin at Raglan was hampered by poor weather. However a few hardy aviators and photographers made it to Raglan including...
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Taieri airfield visitors
All these photos were taken at various times over the last few months.ZK-DXP, a Cessna 172M (c/n 17265333) owned by Classic Flights Ltd of Wanaka operating for Flyinn tours, based in WanakaZK-ETI, a...
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Mainland Air
Several of Mainland Air's aircraft haven't featured on this blog before, so I decided to put them into a post today. Cessna 172N (c/n 17270851) is on lease to Mainland Air for several months at least,...
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Christchurch back in July
ZK-MKO, a Cirrus SR22 (c/n 1527) taxiing onto the grass outside the Canterbury Aero Club, after arriving from home base in Wellington.The Canterbury Aero Club Cessna 172P (c/n 17275566) taxiing in...
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Pauanui
The number of visitors to Pauanui airfield is slowly increasing as summer get closer and amongst those today was the Auckland based Cessna 177RG Cardinal RG, ZK-DPD, which hasnt appeared on this site...
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Otago Aero Club
The Otago Aero Club currently operates two GA aircraft, ZK-EKM and ZK-FWS. ZK-EKM is an ex Mainland Air Cessna 152 (c/n 15280954) which changed ownership earlier this year. ZK-FWS is a Piper PA-28-181...
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Centenary of the Armistice Approaching - Sopwith Triplanes Then and Now
With the approach of the Centenary of the Armistice a couple of days way, I thought I would post some images in remembrance:A great image of King George V and Queen Mary inspecting Sopwith Triplanes...
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Centenary of the Armistice Approaching - Fokker Eindecker Over Rangitata island
I nice video has been posted from Stuff showing Ross Brodie talking about his and his Dad Russell's efforts to build and fly their 3/4 scale Fokker Eindecker replica ZK-EII2. The link is at:...
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Pauanui
A sunny Saturday brought a number of visitors to Pauanui including the Ardmore based Beech G58 Baron VH-PWP which did a couple of quick touch & goes. This arrived in NZ back in October 2017.Also...
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Centenary of the Armistice Approaching - TVAL Sopwith Pup N6205
The Vintage Aviator has built a series of Sopwith Pup reproductions over recent years and their first example is ZK-PPY which was first registered on 9/5/12 and is painted as N6205 of the RNAS from...
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