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Two from Friday at Christchurch
Tony McFarlin has sent in these two shots taken at Christchurch Helicopters 2001 Ltd's facility at Christchurch International on Friday the 16th.John Butterfield recently acquired Bell 505 Jet Ranger X...
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NZ Warbirds at Ardmore Centenary of the Armistice Open Day 18-11-2018
The NZ Warbirds at Ardmore held an excellent commemoration of the Centenary of the signing of the Armistice today (actually it is one week after the centenary but that was just as well because the...
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Ardmore today 18-11-2018 by Magnaman
Magnaman was at Ardmore today for the NZ Warbirds Centenary of Armistice Day open day. The Bell Aircobra P39Q 42-20341 has reached an advanced stage of its rebuild.In the 'office' below.Check out the...
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Hawkes Bay Agplanes and others
A journey through the airfields of Hawkes Bay in the weekend revealed lots of interest including a number of agplanes, starting with Fu24-950 ZK-CRY parked up at Hastings now without its SuperAir...
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A Few More from Ardmore 18-11-2018
While a lot of focus has rightly been on the Mosquito, Airacobra and the Bristol Scout, there were also most of the usual warbirds on display at the NZ Warbirds Centenary of the Armistice open day at...
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Fairlie interesting.
I called in on the Fairlie Heritage Museum (as you do) on Friday - paid my $6.00, forced myself through the cafe without partaking and found this Bensen B8M Gyro in a suspended state chained to the...
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A couple of updates for Otago Airspread
ZK-CZA, a Fletcher FU-24-950 (c/n 151) in Otago Airspread's main Dunedin hangar. This aircraft seems to spend a lot of time in Dunedin compared to others.Another FU-24-950 ZK-EMQ (c/n 269) is in a...
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ZK-PIY
From previous blog posts and my photos, I'm pretty sure ZK-PIY of FlyMySky has a setup where they can quickly change from a Skydiving door to a normal door. Does anyone know any more about this?
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Dedalius Model 1 ZK-SVR
Last Tuesday I was able to visit Kerikeri airport to meet up with Steve Wynne, and I was delighted to find that Allan Fillery was up from Wellsford working on his Dedalius Model 1 ZK-SVR (c/n...
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A Couple from the Light Side at Ardmore 18-11-2018
Among all the warbird activity at the NZ Warbirds Armistice Centenary open day at Ardmore last Sunday were a couple of light sport aircraft that I had not seen completed before:The latest Falcomposite...
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Flyin to Alexandra
Here's a few photos of aircraft not on the blog, or needing updates from a flyin to Alexandra (NZLX) a couple of months ago. Star Bee Gyros Gyrobee (c/n 003) ZK-DAP getting some cracking repaired in...
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Catalina ZK-PBY Over Stratford 10-11-2018
Nick Furmage captured some nice shots of The Catalina Company NZ Ltd's Catalina NZ 4017/ZK-PBY2 flown by Brett Emeny overflying Stratford on 10 November on its way from Ohakea to its base in New...
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Warrior ZK-RJD.
Back in 1979 the US registration of N2815G was applied to the 439th PA-28-161 Warrior II on that years production line.This was c/n 7916439 - with '79' being the fiscal year of production and the '16'...
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Ag aircraft at Hamilton
A visit to an otherwise quiet Hamilton Airport today revealed a number of ag aircraft including Hughes 369E ZK-IMD owned by HeliA1 of OtorohangaAnd Super Air's Air Tractor AT502B ZK-MAA
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Kerikeri on 20-11-2018
As well as Allan Fillery's Dedalius which I have already posted about, I was also able to meet with a couple of the other local sport aviators when I visited Kerikeri last week. Chris Lyle showed me...
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Cessna 205A ZK-COY
The Cessna 205 was introduced in late 1962 - being basically a fixed gear version of the Cessna 210 and using the same 260hp Continental IO-470 engine. It also had the extra port side door.Only 577...
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This weeks fling wingers
During the week I have captured these helicopters - thanks to Heli Maintenance Ltd at Christchurch. Back on Friday the 23rd I got a quick shot through the fence of The Caterpillar Trust's Hughes 369E...
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Jodel D 11 ZK-CKG at Kerikeri 18-11-2018
I was delighted to see the Jodel D 11 ZK-CKG in a hangar at Kerikeri when I visited there on 18 November. I have previously posted about this D 11 as part of my series on Jodel D 11s of New Zealand at...
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Pauanui
With the inclement weather of late on the Coromandel visitors to the Pauanui airfield have been few and far between, but of interest were Advanced Flight's Cabri G2 ZK-IAF, dodging the rain...
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Jodel D 11 ZK-FHB at Feilding
While I am on a Jodel D 11 theme, here is a recent photo of Dennis Moore's ZK-FHB taken recently at Feilding. This aircraft has had a somewhat difficult history, (see my earlier post at:...
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