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Alastair Chaffey R.I.P
A memorial service was held in the Ashburton Aviation Museum hangar this afternoon for Alastair.His Auster 5 ZK-AVH which he acquired in October of 1976 was parked outside.ave atque vale
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Airacobra takes flight!
The highly anticipated first flight of Jerry Yeagen's Bell P39 Airacobra ZK-COB took place from Ardmore on the afternoon of 26 February 2019.More photos across at...
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Pauanui
A day of light winds and sea breezes brought quite a number of visitors to the Pauanui airfield including all the way from Whanganui the NZIC Pilot Academy Diamond DA20C-1 ZK-FIY now in a smart new...
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Magnaman's weekend tour.
Magnaman did a bit of a run around last Saturday and Sunday.Here are some of his photographs.At Tokoroa the only activity was the Aeroprakt A-22LS Foxbat ZK-LFD (c/n 198) as listed with the Auckland...
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A Few Modern Airbus and Boeings at Auckland International - 20-2-2019
On my way to Wellington one week ago, I managed to photograph a few fairly modern examples from Airbus and Boeing from the carpark building:Air New Zealand Airbus A 321 ZK-NNB was on a domestic...
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Cessna Citation ZK-RJZ at Auckland International 20-2-2019
When I was checking out the movements at Auckland International last week, Cessna 525B Citation ZK-RJZ2 (c/n 525B0524) arrived. It has not been posted on this blog before.ZK-RJZ2 was first registered...
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Wings Over Wairarapa (1)
The 2019 Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival was scheduled to run from Friday 22nd February (Practice Day) to Sunday 24th February. As things turned out only the 22nd and Saturday 23rd were flyable and...
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Andy Heap photos # 3.
ZK-IER ZK-IGF ZK-IHL ZK-ILW ZK-IVB ZK-IWNZK-IWS.Andy has placed many of his photos (not just these recent fire fighting pics) on flickr. see HERE
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Andy Heap photos # 2
ZK-HPE ZK-HPE ZK-HTA ZK-HTV ZK-HUE ZK-HUE ZK-HWM ZK-HWW ZK-HXXZK-HXX.
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Andy Heaps photos # 1
ZK-HDQ ZK-HEX ZK-HEX ZK-HFF ZK-HHB ZK-HHF ZK-HJI ZK-HJM ZK-HKAZK-HNC.
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Andy Heap
These photos come from Ned Dawson's Air Attack Magazine which specialises in aerial fire fighting matters.The red arrow in the photo below shows Andy's house in Pigeon Valley before the latest...
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Andy Heap - Pigeon Valley resident
Andy Heap a contributor to this blog site is currently an on again - off again resident in Pigeon Valley.Here are a few of Andy's photos of events in the last couple of weeks. Above and below -...
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Wings Over Wairarapa (2) - Yaks
There were 11 Yak aircraft on the field at Wings Over Wairarapa:On the display line were Graeme Frew's Yak 3 Full Noise ZK-VVS and in the background the 9 aircraft Yak 52 team. I noted that 7 of the 9...
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The Departmental Apache ZK-BUA update.
A new photograph below of ZK-BUA taken by Phillip Kyle at North Shore on 25-02-2019 showing it slowly rotting away.The original post dated 19-03-2017 is below.*******************************For many...
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Wings Over Wairarapa (3) - Scale WW 2 Fighters
With the no show of the Mustang and Spitfires due to the weather up North, it provided a great opportunity for the scale WW 2 fighters to show their stuff and they flew several impressive slots during...
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New Plymouth
A visit to a very sunny but windy New Plymouth today offered a number of items of interest including at New Plymouth Airport the Helicopters NZ Ltd AW139 ZK-HNZ in its new yellow colour schemeAnd...
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Wings Over Wairarapa (4) - The Vintage Aviator
With the no-show of many of the Wings Over Wairarapa headline acts, it could have been a pretty thin air display but for me The Vintage Aviator provided the highlights of the flying displays....
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Bleriot ZK-BXI
Gert Van Kruiningen had his Airdrome Aeroplanes Bleriot XI ZK-BXI2 (c/n BLE-003) out for an engine run up with its new Ward propeller.It first flew from Rangiora on 04-06-2016 with its Chad Willie...
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KR 2s at Masterton 23-2-2019
Another highlight for me at Masterton was being able to catch up with the two Rand KR 2s that are based on the field. I have been to Masterton many times and have always looked for them but I have...
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FW190 ZK-RFR engine runs today.
A wee snippet from Omaka today, 04-03-2019.Capturing the moment when Jay McIntyre lit up ZK-RFR for the first time since its unfortunate ground-loop incident at the Classic Fighters Airshow in 2015....
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