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YJ-CCM at Ardmore 3-12-18
Cessna A185K YJ-CCM msn 18503403 arrived at Armore at 16.25 on 3-12-18 at the end of its delivery flight from Vanuatu to a new local owner. Aircraft flew VLI-NLK on 2-12-18 and NLK-KKE-AMZ on 3-12-18
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Eurofox G-GBNZ Due to Arrive in New Zealand
Aeropro Eurofox G-GBNZ has left Lord Howe Island today 5 December 2018 on its final leg to New Zealand. This is the culmination of a 17,000 mile expedition to commemorate the centenary of the...
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TLC for NJB with RAE at NZRT.
The Bearhawk Syndicates R and B Bearhawk ZK-NJB2 (c/n 1242) was in at Pat Scotter's Rangiora Aircraft Engineering hangar today.First registered on 13-09-2013 - the first of the three on our register to...
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North Shore Airfield Today 7-12-2018
Finally a spell of nice flying weather, and just in time as there are BBQ lunch flyins at both Kaipara Flats and North Shore tomorrow. I had occasion to call into North Shore today and photo'd these 2...
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G-GBNZ at NAC BBQ at NZKF 8-12-2018
RAF Wing Commander Chris Pote and Officer Cadet Abby McGill crewed their Eurofox G-GBNZ on a much less challenging flight this morning, from Whenuapi Air Force base to Kaipara Flats airfield, for the...
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Whakatane
A visit to a very sunny Whakatane offered a number of interesting aircraft including Frontier/Kahu Helicopters AS350B ZK-IIC being used on the company's White Island tourist flights. Their other...
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Piper Cub ZK-BKA
Piper PA-18A-150 Super Cub ZK-BKA (c/n 18-4638) was the sixth equal Cub to join the NZ register - doing so on 12-12-1955 (along with ZK-BJZ) to Airwork (NZ) Ltd at Christchurch.It first flew here on...
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Farmers Air Gisborne
A visit today to the Farmers Air base at Gisborne Airport revealed 2 of the company's PAC 750XL aircraft, being ZK-XLAAnd ZK-XLBAlso present was their Cessna A185F ZK-MDY which was flown across the...
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Helicopters at Gisborne
With four helicopter operators based at Gisborne Airport plus the Helicopter Rescue service theres the potential for a lot of activity. Those seen on Monday included Hughes 269C ZK-HGP, which is...
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Vans RV 14 ZK-VNX at Ardmore Today 11-12-2018
After meeting up with Richard Currie at Kaipara Flats last Saturday, he has done a trip down the East Coast while I have travelled down the West Coast of the North Island. I will post from the trip...
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White Island Flights
As referred to below Kahu Helicopters operate helicopter flights out to White Island, but for those who prefer a fixed wing option East Bay Aviation operate Cessna 172N ZK-EJY out of Whakatane to both...
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The Northern Aviators Club Christmas BBQ at Kaipara Flats 8-12-2018
I will return back to the NAC Christmas BBQ which was not actually that long ago, but a lot of miles have gone under the wheels since then. There were 18 sport aircraft and their pilots and crew...
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SAAANZ Christmas BBQ at North Shore 8-12-2018
The Sport Aircraft Association of NZ (Auckland Branch) held their Christmas BBQ at North Shore airfield on Saturday 8 December (at the same time as the NAC event at Kaipara Flats). As I was needing to...
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Further South at Te Kowhai 8-12-2018
Two and a half hours South of North Shore (includes a hold up for an accident on the Northern Motorway and a stop for a coffee and muffin at the BP on the Southern Motorway) you get to Te Kowhai...
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Pauanui
Visitors to the Pauanui airfield of late included the Thames based Cessna 210G ZK-DCA, showing off its retraction mode..And the latest addition to the Waikato Aero Club fleet, Cessna 172S ZK-WKF,...
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Taieri Airfield
I've got a large collection of photos of aircraft from Taieri airfield, my home base. In this post I'll have all the microlights and gyrocopters that haven't featured on this blog before, or ones that...
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This weeks pickings
The week just gone has been pretty grotty in the Christchurch region.However I did manage to finally get an outside shot of the Robinson R44 Raven II ZK-ILY (c/n 10968) of Horizon Helicopters Ltd....
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Air New Zealand Airbus A 321 ZK-NNB at Auckland International 13-12-2018
Another trip to Wellington over the last few days. On my way down last Thursday I was pleased to see one of Air New Zealand's new Airbus A 321 aircraft outside the Air New Zealand maintenance base. At...
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A few days after Sir Minty's post (below) I was able to capture both of AirNZ's new Airbus A321-271NX on scheduled services into Auckland International.ZK-NNA arriving today, Monday 17thZK-NNB arriving...
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Norfolk Road Airstrip on 9-12-2018
After such an interesting aircraft day on the 8th of December, I continued on to Taranaki on Sunday the 9th. The weather was great and Mt Egmont was towering. I really lucked out at Norfolk Road as...
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