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AHRT's New Helicopters and New Base at Ardmore 3-5-2019
At Ardmore I was pleased to catch up with the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trusts's two new Leonardo AW 169 helicopters at their new base:The new AHRT Ardmore base is in the two hangar complex just South...
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French visitors
Amongst the visitors to Pauanui airfield today were a couple of interesting French built light aircraft, being the Auckland owned Socata TB20 ZK-JFC which has had only 1 NZ owner since its importation...
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Polikarpov Po 2 ZK-POL at Ardmore 3-5-2019 and Another Earlier Example
The Red Star Aviation Trust's recently restored Polikarpov Po 2 was out in the sun at Ardmore yesterday:A colourful scene outside Aero Technology hangar. ZK-POL2 (c/n 046) bears the very small numbers...
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Ardmore Helicopters on 3-5-2019
There were quite a few helicopters out in the sun at Ardmore last Friday, including these that I had not photo'd previously:Our only 2 Agusta 109E's posing together.The Taranaki Rescue Helicopter...
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Ardmore
A visit to Ardmore today offered more aircraft of interest to those blogged from last week starting with Bell 407 ZK-HNY which was added to the Gisborne Helicopters fleet in March 2019.An imposing...
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Bell 427 ZK-IIG
Thanks to Hairy Mole Rat we have a photo of the Bell 427 ZK-IIG as taken at Tauranga today.Bell 427 ZK-IIG was allocated the Canadian registration of C-GLZO followed by N427HV to Bell Helicopters...
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Thunder Mustang ZK-TMG has Flown the Coop
After having been for sale for quite some time, the Kiwi Thunder Group's Thunder Mustang ZK-TMG has been sold and it was cancelled from the New Zealand register on 2/5/19. It has been sold to the USA...
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ZK-DCR
I happened to pass through Ashburton on Sunday 13-04-2019 and note the Cessna 182P Skylane ZK-DCR was active and that it had not featured on these paged previously.Cessna 182P c/n 63192 was built as...
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Barrier Air Caravan ZK-SDD at North Shore
I called in to North Shore airfield yesterday afternoon and found that I was just in time for Barrier Air's departure for Great Barrier Island at 4 o'clock.Their C 208B Grand Caravan that was operating...
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ZK-DTT for Thailand
The two colour slide copies below have been kindly supplied by George Phillips and show the New Zealand Aerospace CT4A Airtrainer ZK-CTT (c/n 020) at Hamilton. This first flew on 29-08-1974 and was...
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Not a Bad Catch at North Shore 8-5-2019
A new aircraft to me at North Shore a few days ago was the Cessna A150L Aerobat ZK-BAD2 (c/n A1500412). This has recently been way up North with the Kaitaia Aero Club (who now have Cessna C 162...
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Omaka # 5
Show maker.F-18 from over from our Western provinces. Sorry I cannot provide the sound. Show breakerThe Sunday rain and low 'scud'.
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ZK-DTT for Thailand
The two colour slide copies below have been kindly supplied by George Phillips and show the New Zealand Aerospace CT4A Airtrainer ZK-CTT (c/n 020) at Hamilton. This first flew on 29-08-1974 and was...
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Pauanui
A stunning autumn day brought a few visitors to the Pauanui airfield including, down from Parakai, the Tecnam P2002 Sierra MkII ZK-EVE, which was imported new in November 2017.And from Whitianga the...
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Metal Moth at Roxburgh.
Passing through Roxburgh recently I stopped to grab a 'Jimmy's pie (as you do) and parked a couple of hundred yards down the road beside this clever piece of ironmongery.It is the 'Bill Clarke Art...
View ArticleHeritage and Sport Aviation North Otago.
This snip and video clip about Colin Hay and his Oamaru hangar comes from the Otago Daily Times.Check HERE
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Pitts S 1S ZK-PUG
The "new" single seat Pitts S 1S ZK-PUG was registered on Friday, 10/5/19, to Mark J Miller of Tauranga:ZK-PUG (c/n 1-0029) at Avspecs on 3/5/19. It looks really great!I did not know much about this...
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Pitts Model 12(s) of New Zealand - ZK-PTS
In a nice segue from the recently registered Pitts ZK-PUG, the next type of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand was John Eaton's Pitts Model 12 ZK-PTS2, which is our only example to...
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Cessna 180K ZK-EMK
The Cessna 180K was the last of the production models with c/n 18053047 being about the 156th from end of the line in 1981 - out of something like 6200 plus 180's all up.This airframe was allocated...
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Tomahawk ZK-WRB.
The Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk ZK-WRB (c/n 38-98A0911) was initially registered to Airwork (NZ) Ltd at Ardmore as ZK-EQD but on sale to the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club was re-registered as ZK-WRB on...
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