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Auckland International 29-5-2019
Last week I headed off to Wellington again. I have the trip down to a nice schedule now and after arriving around noon on the 380 bus I have time to catch the action before my flight leaves at around...
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Air NZ and SIA Heavies at Wellington International 31-5-2019
After flying to Wellington on Wednesday 29 May, the adventurous Wellington weather did its worst on Thursday and quite a few flights were cancelled resulting in a backlog of passengers wanting to fly...
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Meanwhile at Wellington International 31-5-2019
While we were waiting for the Dreamliner to push back, a procession of more local aircraft departed and arrived in the great lighting:RNZAF heavy Boeing 757 NZ7572 was obviously pretty light, given the...
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Stratford on 2-6-2019
After a drive North in "adventurous" weather and catching up with Ray Deerness for Saturday night, I headed on to Stratford in improving weather but unfortunately not flyable for me due to quite a...
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ZK-THB
Flightline Aviation Ltd at Ardmore imported three Cessna 172's in 2001 with the 172S Skyhawk SP c/n 172S8927 being registered to them as ZK-THB on the 24th of August. Ownership changed to ZK-THB Ltd of...
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Special EFX
On my way driving North last Saturday I took a different route to Feilding aerodrome and I was surprised to come across the Grumman Traveller ex ZK-EFX in a paddock beside the Northern end of Hansen's...
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A Couple of Crescos
A couple of Crescos from my trip through Taranaki and the Waikato:Taken through glass at Stratford was ZK-LTJ (c/n 018), the fourth Ravensdown example that I have seen on my trips through there. This...
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Feilding Dawn Raid 9-6-2019
Feilding Aerodrome hosted their dawn flyin this morning and there were more than 40 visiting and local aircraft on the field. Jordan Elvy has posted a great selection of photos on Facebook, and I...
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Back in Auckland 3-6-2019
After overnighting at Wanganui and Te Kuiti on my way North with my relocation rental car, I had to return it to Auckland Airport by 10 am on Monday 3/6/19. I left Te Kuiti around 6 am so I had a half...
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Kahu Blackhawk arrives.
Agairnz has kindly supplied these photos of the Blackhawk N160PA arriving at Ardmore yesterday afternoon (12-06-2019) from the Port of Auckland.The helicopter arrived at the Port aboard the container...
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A Couple More Crescos
After seeing my recent post on a couple of Crescos, Murray Kirkus has sent in photos of a couple more Crescos in a more exotic location. Murray advises that these Crescos were photo'd at Kuala Lipis...
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Edwardian Era Replica Flying Machines of New Zealand - the Pither Monoplane
I have posted on the Edwardian Era Pither Monoplane previously at: https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-pither-monoplane-replica-at.html In this post I outlined a brief history of Pither's...
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Rangiora Friday 14th
I had a very pleasant waddle around at Rangiora yesterday afternoon (Friday 14th).A bit of a stray was the Cessna 172M ZK-DRM (c/n 17263534) which has been with the Waitomo Aero Club at Te Kuiti since...
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Pitts S-1C Special ZK-RMR
There has been a bit of activity in the Pitts Special fraternity around the country recently.Robert McNair has constructed this magnificent Pitts S-1C model with its conventional aerofoil section with...
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Edwardian Era Real Deal and Replica Flying Machines of New Zealand - Bleriots
There is quite a bit of history around Bleriot Monoplanes in New Zealand, from three original machines to several more modern replicas. A good potted history of the original machines by Philip Treweek...
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A change of ID's
The two Tecnam P2008's from the New Zealand Airline Academy at Oamaru were back at Rangiora for a change of registration letters. ZK-TLT (c/n 123) was re-registered yesterday as ZK-DDY2 .These ZK-DDY...
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Rod Lewis's Mosquito has Flown in the US
A recent Facebook post from Lewis Air Legends shows the first flight of their "new" DH 98 Mosquito (c/n PZ474 ex ZK-BCV) from San Antonio, Texas. The link is...
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Two more from NZRT today (20-06-2019).
A couple more photographs from Rangiora today The Cornwall Farms Ltd's Bell 206 JetRanger III ZK-HQH3 (c/n 3206) nearing the end of an auto rotation.I posted ZK-SUA a couple of days back - but I post...
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It Was More Pas de Deux than Sumo Between 2 Heavies at Wellington International!
As I have posted previously, I was fortunate to be at Wellington International with Planefil and Lanzi, just 3 weeks ago, when the Air New Zealand Dreamliner ZK-NZN3 was there providing extra seats to...
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-RGV Has Flown
The last couple of times I have been down at Stratford there has been a special aircraft in one of the hangars awaiting the processing of paperwork. Then on 14/6/19 it was registered to Gary Marsh of...
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