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Ashburton on Friday.
Three more photos from Ashburton taken on Friday.Above is the locally based North American NA88 Harvard III ZK-ENE (c/n 88-14672) of BDH Investments Ltd. The two John and Trish Crawford Mustangs...
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RAANZ 2019 Fly-In Te Anau-Manapouri Airport
A belated blog post from the recent RAANZ fly-in with narrations thanks to Keith Morris.The Recreational Aircraft Association of New Zealand (RAANZ) held their annual flyin at Te Anau - Manapouri...
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Balclutha visit Saturday 9th
I dropped in on Balclutha and found a few old familiars. The Rans S-6ES Coyote II ZK-ARD2 (c/n 9081902) now wears an all yellow scheme. At the Otago Airspread facility the Fletcher Fu24-950M ZK-CZA...
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Te Anau Pitts Special
Now with Ivan Krippner and hanagared at Te Anau - Manapouri Airport is the Pitts S1 ZK-RTP, which he purchased recently with the ownership being changed in late 2018. Te Anau based, Ivan flies...
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New Zenith CH 200 at Tauranga
It is a long time since our last Zenith CH 200 was registered in New Zealand (it was in 2006). I have posted the histories of the seven examples we have had at:...
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Looking Forward to Wings Over Wairarapa
There are 10 days to go until the Wings Over Wairarapa airshow and the 10 day MetService weather forecast looks good. I am looking forward to the show and I am really hoping for light winds so The...
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Grand Champion from SAANZ Flyin at Ashburton
Following judging on Saturday, the Grand Champion aircraft of the SAANZ 2019 flyin was John and Trish Crawford's Bushby Midget Mustang ZK-MMI. A spectacular aircraft!This aircraft was started in the...
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Pauanui
Visitors this week to Pauanui airfield included Pete Walton's Titan T-51 ZK-WSV from Whitianga which has been re-engined with a 400hp Chev V8 motor and sounds impressive.And Maule M5-210C ZK-SLS from...
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Flying New Zealand 2019 National Championships at North Shore
North Shore airfield was a hive of aeronautical activity today as the Flying New Zealand 2019 National Champs were underway. I had not really focussed on this major event so I was surprised to see so...
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Twin Squirrel ZK-ICK at North Shore 14-2-2019
As well as the Flying New Zealand Championships, there were other movements at North Shore yesterday.One of these was the recently, (October 2018), registered AS 355 F1 Twin Squirrel ZK-ICK which...
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More photos from last weekends Ashburton SAA fly in
Bargeld01 has provided these photos taken at the SAA fly in last Saturday at Ashburton.The delay in posting being due to my being out of wifi range.In the Ashburton Aviation Museum is this Proctor...
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Pauanui
Some of the interesting visitors that called into Pauanui over the weekend included the unique Cvjetkovic CA65 ZK-FNY over from MatamataDown in the Waterways amongst the boats and houses was...
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Pioneer Aero This Afternoon 18-1-2019
I travelled back to Warkworth from another Stratford run today, so a trip to Ardmore was in order. All the interest was around Pioneer Aero:The Jerry Yagen P 39F Airacobra ZK-COB2 is getting very near...
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Te Kowhai last Saturday 16-1-2019
On my way down to Te Kuiti last Saturday I called in to Te Kowhai where I had arranged to meet Paul Parsons to check out his Minicab that I had not seen for many years.Paul pushed out ZK-CZT for a...
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Rotor Work Helicopters at Te Kuiti 16-1-2019
After I arrived at Te Kuiti where No 2 grandson is working on a dairy farm, he had to go and feed some friends dogs about 20 minutes away and he mentioned that down the end of Kopaki Road was a...
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Chipmunk ZK-DHC
Noted at Mandeville on 17-02-2019 was the immaculate De Havilland Canada DHC-1A-2 ZK-DHC2 (c/n 042) as listed with Bill Sutherland.As yet unflown - I believe it has been sold to an overseas...
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Beaver ZK-BVA
Graeme Mills has kindly sent these photographs of the De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver ZK-BVA2 ( c/n 245) of Farmers Air Ltd as taken at Gisborne on 01-02-2019 just prior to its departure to...
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Pauanui
Amongst the visitors to the Pauanui airfield this week were a few aircraft not noted here before including the Ardmore based Tecnam P2006T ZK-TWN, one of two currently on the NZ register.Over from...
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Omarama yesterday 24-02-2019
I called briefly into Omarama yesterday afternoon just as gliding operations commenced for the day.Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus ZK-GZR (c/n 469) of Glider rentals playing with some lift over the golf...
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Medevac helicopter
Flying over Pauanui this afternoon on a Medevac flight into nearby Tairua was the Taupo based BK117B-2 ZK-HNP, which was added to the Search & Rescue Services Taupo fleet in April 2018.
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