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Taupo and Bay of Plenty
Continuing our travels in the Taupo and Bay of Plenty areas we start with Auckland's Advanced Flight EC130T2 ZK-IJV at Taupo awaiting its passengers. This was reregistered from ZK-IVJ in March...
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All Air New Zealand Today 16-8-2019
Although I was flying Jetstar from Wellington to Auckland this morning, there were plenty of Air New Zealand planes along the way.At Wellington the regional wing of the terminal was all go.And there...
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Thai Airways Dreamliner at Auckland
My flight to Auckland yesterday arrived just before 10am and this is around the time that several flights from Asia arrive. My preferred transport from the airport is the 380 bus across to Papatoetoe...
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ZK-RGC delivered.
The third Tecnam P92 Echo for the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club has been delivered.Tecnam P92 Echo Classic De Luxe UL ZK-RGC (c/n 1601) was shipped into Bluff and assembled at Wanaka.It joins...
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Auckland to Wellington back on 13-8-2019
Last week I had to make another trip down to Wellington, so another visit to Auckland International. On the 380 bus to the airport I saw that Air Chathams "new" ATR 72 was positioned for a photo so...
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Ardmore
A visit to a very sunny Ardmore today provided much of interest including the Australian Cessna 182P VH-SZC, which is registered to a Queensland ownerUp from Taupo the colourful Enstrom F480B...
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Movements at Omaka this week.
GMO reports on 'movements' at Omaka this week.Activities relate to the re-vamping of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre's World War-II hall The 'Dangerous Skies' World War-II hall should re-open in...
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Asso Champion V (Only One) of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered in new Zealand was the Asso Chamion VThe Asso Champion V was designed by Giuseppe Vidor of Tovena in Italy, and the prototype first flew on 10 June...
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At Chathams on Saturday.
Matt Hayes was out on the Chathams on Saturday and captured this photo of the Air Chathams Convair.General Dynamics Allison Convair 440/580 ZK-CIE2 (c/n 399) [ of 1957 vintage] arrived in NZ on 10...
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Whisper Jet VH-SAZ
The BAe 146-200QC Whisper Jet VH-SAZ2 (c/n 2148) has been and gone and I did not even hear it.This British Aerospace 146 first flew as G-6-148 on 29-11-1989 and went on to serve as G-PRIN, then back to...
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Cessna Skycatchers of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered here in 2011 was the Cessna C 162 Skycatcher.There was a lot of anticipation around the Cessna Skycatcher, which was introduced as a concept aircraft at...
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King Air ZK-VME
The Beechcraft King Air 350i N881HG (c/n FL1155) arrived in Nelson on 2 July 2019 on delivery to Tasman Aviation Ltd following a ferry flight from Jakarta/Halim where it had been operating for several...
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Stratford on 24-8-2019
Nick Furmage of the Stratford Aerodrome blog does a great job of keeping up with happenings at Stratford where there always is a lot happening. On Saturday 24 August he photo'd these two refurbished...
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Helicopters at Mt Cook
Amongst the spectacular scenery at Mt Cook today there was a reasonable amount of helicopter activity.At the Airport Inflite were operating AS350B2 ZK-HJZ on tourist flightsAs were Southern Lakes...
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More from Mt Cook
Day 2 at Mt Cook dawned to an even more spectacular day and this brought the entire Inflite fleet outside and busy with tourist bookings.Pilatus PC6B2-H4 skiplanes ZK-MCN and ZK-MCT were occupied with...
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Canterbury shots from Matt
We have a few more photos from Matt Hayes for you.Taken on various recent occasions. The Canterbury Aero Club's Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II ZK-DUY (c/n 28R-7535019) at Manuka Point. This has...
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Helicopters at Wanaka
Always a hive of helicopter activity Wanaka hasnt disappointed this week and those that are new to this blog were Wanaka Helicopter's Guimbal Cabri G2 ZK-HAK, acquired new by the company in July...
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More from Wanaka
Further aircraft of interest noted at a busy Wanaka included the locally based Beagle B121 Pup ZK-CYP, just back from a local flightAdded to the Classic Flights fleet in late 2017 was Cessna 172N...
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ARHT AW169 ZK-IZB at Ardmore 27-8-2019
A quick trip down to Stratford on Tuesday afternoon saw an even quicker side trip off the Southern Motorway to Ardmore.Not much was new but the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust's Leonardo AW 169 ZK-IZB...
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Norfolk Road on 28-8-2019
After an overnight with No 2 grandson at Te Kuiti, and early start on Wednesday saw me at Norfolk Road just after 8.30. It was quiet with only a couple of Cessnas parked in the morning sun. But what...
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