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Pauanui
Operating from the Pauanui airfield today was Skywork Helicopters' AS350B3 ZK-HWW doing sling loads of building supplies offshore to Slipper Island. This was imported by the company in November...
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Queenstown in the Sun Today 14-9-2019
We flew home to a grey Auckland from sunny Queenstown today. Queenstown is a pain to get good photos of helicopters and aircraft, but here is the obligatory shot of three of The Helicopter Line's...
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Air New Zealand Queenstown Shots
There are actually quite good locations for photographing aircraft approaching from both ends of the main Queenstown runway 05/23.Airbus A 320 ZK-OXB approaches 05 over Frankton Arm.And over the...
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Ardmore
A visit to Ardmore today offered a number of aircraft of interest including the Northland Coast Guard Air Patrol's Cessna 182P ZK-CGD, which they have owned since 2008And newly imported from Australia...
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Rangiora Back on 7-9-2019 (1)
I was very pleased to be able to visit Rangiora airfield with Blue Bus on Saturday 7 September. He has already posted about a couple of big tyred aircraft that were there (Savannah S ZK-SRT and Zenith...
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Rangiora Back on 7-9-2019 (2)
Gert Van Kruiningen had his Airdrome Aeroplanes Bleriot XI replica ZK-BXI2 out test running its 1928 Velie M5 five cylinder radial engine.
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Rangiora Back on 7-9-2019 (3)
Several hangars were open at Rangiora when we visited and there were several sport aircraft of interest to me:Terry Salmon's lovely Corby Starlet ZK-EEZ was looking very tidy. I didn't realise until...
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Pauanui
An interesting visitor to Pauanui today was the 1965 model Cessna 185D ZK-CKT just off a complete refurbishment and repaint by Wrightair at Tauranga.
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Chipmunk ZK-JIT
DHC-1 Chipmunk ZK-JIT c/n C1-0640This aircraft was delivered to the RAF on 16-05-1952 as WK627 and as of April this year was still painted in its original RAF colour scheme.Here is a link to a...
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Rangiora Back on 7-9-2019 (4)
The weather at Rangiora on 7 September was nice with a light wind pretty much straight down Runway 25. This was after several days of really grotty cold weather with low cloud and strong winds. I...
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Oceania Helicopters Pukekohe Ltd
A visit to Oceania Helicopters Pukekohe Ltd base in Drury today revealed their Bell 206L-3 LongRanger sprayer ZK-ILR outside. This was imported from Japan in 2010 and has been with the company since...
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Masterton
A small but interesting group of aircraft attended the Wairarapa Aero Club's 90th aniversary gathering today including the Socata TB10 ZK-JIG which has been around since being imported from Australia...
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Dargaville on 21-9-2019
A really nice weather day bought lots of visitors to share in the famous Dargaville Saturday lunch - thanks to all the volunteers who do the cooking.Nice reflections in the Northern Wairoa River beside...
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Paraparaumu
A visit to Paraparaumu Airport yesterday afternoon revealed a hive of activity, mainly around the Kapiti Districts Aero Club, including the Club's R22 ZK-HNSKapiti Heliworx R44 ZK-IDO was being...
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Charlie's AOPA strip fly in.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association (AOPA) has regular fly ins around the Country.This weekend Charlie Draper's farm strip near Darfield was the base for 'back country' strip visitsClick on this...
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Charlie's AOPA strip fly in #2
More from Charlie Draper's AOPA fly in/out from his Darfield strip. From up Otorohanga way came the Cessna 182P ZK-EJO c/n 18261063 of Bruce Johnston. New to the register in mid-July - ex USA - was the...
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AOPA visit Mesopotamia
Matt Hayes was at Mesopotamia Station yesterday and caught these visitors - part of Charlie's AOPA flyin/out to the back country strips.Magic country. No apologies for shots of aircraft seen in the...
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AOPA from another lens.
Tony McFarlin visited Charlie's strip somewhat later than Bluebus and offers these pics. The David Blair and Rex Moore Partnership's Rans S-7S Courier ZK-CAB3 c/n 0707475 was up from Taieri. Alpi...
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Maungaturoto on 21-9-2019
At Murray Hargeaves strip just North of Maungaturoto on Saturday afternoon, the blast from the past 400 HP Fletcher FU 24-950 ZK-EGK was parked outside:As you can see it is still painted up in its full...
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Waipukurau
A visit to Waipukurau airfield today revealed a reasonable amount of activity for a Monday including the rarely seen Champion 7GCBC ZK-CRT which is registered to a Napier owner, and was imported way...
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