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Leonardo AW169 ZK-HLH re-visited
The Auckland Regional Helicopter Trust Leonardo AW169 ZK-HLH is yet to enter service however this must be getting close as the machine is now adorned with sponsorship decals. It is understood the...
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Healthy Bastards at Omaka.
The Healthy Bastards weekend at Omaka is under way and Andy Heap has sent in a wide selection of images.Here are some of the tail dragger Cessna's on site. The Darlington Drilling and Piling Ltd's...
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Omaka
Further to the action photos in the separate blog below there were a lot of other aircraft on the airfield and these included the Cub Crafters CCK 1865 ZK-CUB from Balfour which was registered in 2014,...
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Aerospatiale AS350B2 ZK-IRS
Aerospatiale AS350B2 ZK-IRS was noted outside Oceania Aviation's Ardmore complex 01 February 2019. This machine was imported to NZ during the fourth quarter of 2018 as...
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Northern Aviators Club Poker Run 2-2-2019
Yesterday the Northern Aviators Club held their fourth successful event of the summer season and again the weather was not a problem. A weak front went through North Shore an hour or so before the...
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Tecnam seen in Queenstown
Last year, while I was in Queenstown, this Tecnam P92 Echo Super ZK-TGT (c/n 705) dropped in for a visit
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Pauanui
Amongst the trainers visiting Pauanui airfield today were a couple of unique aircraft, being the Classic Aviation Adventurer CA18 ZK-CMR up from TaurangaAnd from much further afield the Harmon Rocket...
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Oranges and Lemons - MT 03's at Dargaville
Orange and lemon autogyros at Dargaville last Saturday.And here with autogyro Chief Instructor for Training CITRusty Russell with his new yellow mount ZK-RBG, ex Parakai.Rusty departed Dargaville just...
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Heading on South.
Whilst most of this blogs contributors were fluffing about at Omaka with the Mad Bastards Bluebus departed for points south out of NZCH.First stop was the Canterbury Aero Club where I missed the...
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Question time # 204 resolved.
The aircraft in question (pictured below) is the Douglas DC-3 ZK-BQK (c/n 16567/33315) as seen at the Museum of Transport and Technology and came from the Tony Miller...
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Helicopters at Te Anau
The annual RAANZ fly in for 2019 is being hosted by the Fiordland Aero Club at Te Anau/Manapouri Airport but due to the bad weather forecast for the weekend the fly in was brought forward by 2 days to...
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Observant readers of this blog will have noted a logo of a Predator drone on the wingtip of Harvey Lockie's Dyn Aero MCR 01 Club ZK-WIK and wondered why it was there.And there is also a Predator logo...
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Agplanes and others at Gore
A visit to Gore airfield on a very blue sky day offered lots of interest including MacKenzie Aviation's Fu24-950M ZK-BOG which is looking very smart for being over 60 years old..Imported from Australia...
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Scene at Rangiora today. Twin Couriers.
Two Helio Couriers were captured today at Rangiora by Pat Scotter.Nearest is the visiting Canadian example C-GZZL (c/n 1263) which is the H-295 model and beyond is the only NZ example ZK-TCE (c/n 2503)...
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Ashburton underway.
The SAA fly-in at Ashburton is under way.This photo taken late yesterday by Allan Bowman shows about twenty arrivals already.Stand by for more reports from our team on site.Safe and happy flying.
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SAANZ Ashburton
As per the blog post below SAANZ Ashburton 2019 is underway under blue skies and some 40 odd aircraft have now arrived. As always there is plenty of interest including the Bushby Mustang II ZK-CAR...
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Highland Helicopters
As featured on TV1 news tonight Highland Helicopters based at Taieri have equipped their Bell 206L-1 LongRanger ZK-HTK with a very advanced thermal imaging camera system. This machine was imported...
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Motueka earlier in the week.
Tony McFarlin was in the Motueka region earlier in the week and offers us these shots taken over two days Our first Cessna 185, Jason Deer's ZK-CAK was in from its Eighty Eight Valley base. Bell 429...
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Flying Over Gibbs Farm One Week Ago 2-2-2019
On our return flight from Dargaville to Parakai last Saturday in Harvey Lockie's Dyn Aero MCR 01 Club ZK-WIK, our route took us over Gibbs Farm beside the Kaipara Harbour.Alan Gibbs is a prominent New...
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More from SAANZ Ashburton
Another stunning day brought more arrivals to Ashburton airfield for the annual SAANZ fly-in and a selection of these, which are all Canterbury based, are as follows, starting with the immaculate...
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