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Taupo
A visit to Taupo on a stunning summer day offered plenty of aviation activity including down at the lake shore Taupo's Floatplane Co's Cessna U206G ZK-EFI taxied into the dock with Ruapehu and...
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Thames Wings & Wheels
The 2nd Wings & Wheels held at Thames airfield today attracting quite a number of visiting aircraft some of which included the Bell 505 ZK-HTI owned by Brookby Quarries of Auckland.The locally...
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More Thames Wings & Wheels 26-1-2019
I was also fortunate to attend the Thames Wings & Wheels event, flying up from Stratford with Alan Warner in his lovely Polaris FK 14 ZK-RFDThe event was very well supported both by aircraft and...
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Canadian Courier in Country
Parked behind the RAE hangar at Rangiora on Saturday and Sunday was the Helio H-295 Courier C-GZZL (c/n 1263) as listed with Louis Grenier since 14-09-2004.This had just been boxed in from Australia...
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Waihi Beach 27-01-2019
Rod Vaughan kindly sent in these two photographs taken at Waihi Beach (NZWV) today.North American NA88 Harvard ZK-ENJ (c/n 88-17010) ex NZ1098 of the Harvard 98 Syndicate is down from Ardmore.Tecnam...
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Freight Aircraft at Auckland International 21-1-2019
One week ago I headed down to Taranaki to get re-acquainted with my Jodel D9. Hence I made my way to Auckland Airport for my cheap Jetstar flight JQ365 to New Plymouth.It seems as if I have been to...
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HNZ ZK-HNZ at New Plymouth 21-1-2019
The flight from Auckland to New Plymouth takes 50 minutes in a Q 300. Arriving at New Plymouth it seemed quite deserted with just the Catalina and an Australian Cessna 337 survey plane, both all...
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Cessna U206F Stationair ZK-DWX
The weather at Stratford last week was sunny and very windy early on, but that did not stop Cessna U206F ZK-DWX flying in from Whangarei on the Wednesday 23/1/19. It has been owned by Stokes Logging...
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More Crescos at Stratford
For my third trip down to Stratford in five months, there was a third different Ravensdown Aerowork Cresco based there.Pilot Mark Tocher was flying ZK-LTK (c/n 030 and ex ZK-TML) on the Tuesday.Then on...
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Jodel D9 ZK-KMM at Stratford
My reason for travelling down to Stratford for the third time in five months was to fly my Jodel D9 ZK-KMM which is now back together again after a lot of engine work by Wayne Richmond, and nice new...
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Rotax 915iS Blue Top
I came across this 'Blue Top' Rotax engine at Rangiora recently as being installed in the Foxcon Aviation Terrier 200 ZK-UTC (c/n NZ2005). Photos at Rangiora...
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Savannah ZK-RKI
Added to the register on 09-01-2019 was the ICP Savannah S ZK-RKI (c/n 18-08-54-0633) for Bruce and Roisin McGee of Kaiapoi.Seen today, 30-01-2019, at Rangiora just prior to take off.
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More Stratford Aircraft
As the wind died down during last week at Stratford, a few more of the local aircraft were out and about.On the Thursday afternoon Wayne Richmond relocated Gary Marsh's Zenair CH-601HDS ZK-DBZ2 from...
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Pipistrel Virus ZK-TCB at Tauranga
The Hairy Mole Rat captured the recently registered Pipistrel Virus SW ZK-TCB2 outside Solo Wings recently.ZK-TCB2 (c/n 923 SWN 100iS), was registered to the new Pipistrel agents, Pipistrel NZ Ltd of...
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Question time # 204
Hello all DC-3 followers.Here we have a photograph from the Tony Miller collection in Australia.As you can see we have an ex NZNAC DC-3 Skyliner.The question is WHICH ONE ?And WHERE was this photograph...
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Stratford to Thames One Week Ago 23-1-2019
I thought I Would post some photos from my flight North from Stratford to Thames, ending up at the Wings and Wheels event. I was flying with Alan Warner in his very nice B & F Polaris...
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A "new" Beaver
A star attendee at today's Healthy Bastards flying competions at Omaka airfield was the recently imported 1952 vintage DHC2 Beaver ZK-BVA. Having been completely refurbished in Australia it flew...
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Another Saturday, Another View of North and South Heads from a Dyn Aero
This Saturday it was from Harvey Lockie's very short wing MCR 01 Club ZK-WIK. (click the photo to enlarge it and you can see the two Heads).However this time we flew directly from Dargaville to...
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GA of Taieri airfield
Taieri Airfield (NZTI) has a fair few GA aircraft that haven't yet featured on this blog, or need some updates. Piper PA-28-201R Arrow II ZK-FHP (c/n 28R-7635418) is a new aircraft to Taieri airfield...
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Aerospatiale AS355F1 ZK-ICK
Registered to Airlift Trading Ltd of Auckland in late October 2018, Aerospatiale AS355F1 Twin Squirrel ZK-ICK is seen here at Ardmore on 31 January 2019.This 1982 edition helicopter has spent most of...
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