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Northern Aviators Club Christmas BBQ at Kaipara Flats on 7-12-2019 (2)
Here are a few of the arrivals for the Christmas flyin and BBQ at Kaipara Flats airfield last Saturday:John Crone arrived from Parakai in his Tecnam P2002 Sierra RG ZK-TZS,Tony Lloyd arrived from...
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Northern Aviators Club Christmas BBQ at Kaipara Flats on 7-12-2019 (3)
There were a few other aircraft at the NAC Christmas BBQ flyin on Saturday that I did not photo on arrival. Here are some of them:Robert Power flew his Pipstrel Virus SW ZK-TCB2 from Whakatane....
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Dargaville Double of Texans on 12-12-2019
A cracker of a day at Dargaville Aero Club today saw both the club's new Fly Synthesis Texan and their old Texan out in the sun:The new and the old.Texan Club Sport ZK-DTX2 is yet to appear on the...
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Lockheed L-10A Electra at Ardmore 13-12-19
This magnificent aircraft owned and restored by Rob Mackley was outside today for what I believe is the first time since the restoration began.It carries the name Kuaka and Union Airways markings and...
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Three from Hamilton on 12-12-19
Eurocopter AS 350 B2 ZK-HLB msn 8359 operated by Central Helicopters (2014) Ltd of Opotiki photographed outside a Hamilton maintanance firm.RAAF Lockheed C-130J-30 Hercules A97-468 photographed near...
View ArticleCrashed at Motueka today
Thanks to STUFF we have a report on the crash at Motueka today of the Cessna 185A VH-GKI (c/n 185-0315).Click HERE.
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ATR 72-600 ZK-MZB at Tauranga
Thanks to Warwick Hamilton we have a photo of Air New Zealand's newest ATR 72-600 ZK-MZB landing at Tauranga recently.ZK-MZB (c/n 1578) was first registered to Mt Cook Airline Ltd on 2/11/19.
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Pauanui
A settled week brought a regular stream of visitors to the Pauanui airfield but not much was new other than a couple of aircraft making their first noted visits, being the Blenheim based Cessna U206F...
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Piper Turbo Arrow ZK-LGR/2 at North Shore Today 15-12-2019
A quick pass by North Shore airfield today revealed the locally based Piper PA 28RT-201T Turbo Arrow ZK-LGR2 in new colours:ZK-LGR2 was re-registered on 1/5/17 from it previous identity of ZK-PAE, and...
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Wairarapa Harvard(s?)
I travelled South through the Wairarapa on 30 November and at Pahiatua I stopped and photo'd the iconic Harvard with the slide in the main street at the North end of town.But this nice memorial is not...
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Hercules at rest.
Parked up this miserable day on the "Antarctic ramp" at Christchurch International Airport were these two Lockheed LC-130H Hercules. Above is LC-130H 76-3302 (c/n 382-4731).This began as an LC-130R-2...
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Police 2 at Tauranga Today 17-12-2019
Warwick Hamilton photo'd Bell 429 "Police 2" at a somewhat murky Tauranga today:I guess that it was probably involved with the aftermath of the White Island volcanic tragedy.Thanks for the photo Warwick.
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Hastings Hangars on 15-12-2019
Jordan Elvy headed for Hastings after photographing the Harvard wind vane at Mangatainoka, and he managed to photograph some interesting sport aircraft in a couple of the hangars, (that are used with...
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Hamilton
A visit to a busy Hamilton Airport today revealed a number of interesting aircraft and helicopters including, from Otorohanga, Heli A1's AS350BA ZK-IZZ which was previously ZK-HZZ4The latest Air...
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Pacific Aerospace Happenings at Hamilton (1)
It has been busy around the Pacific Aerospace Ltd facility at the North East corner of Hamilton Airport lately, with their latest 750XL test flying:ZK-EPH2 (c/n 223) was registered to Pacific Aerospace...
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Pics of my week
A couple of helicopters captured yesterday at Christchurch.The Station Air Ltd's Hughes 369HS ZK-HQL3 (c/n 1220438S) arrives at Heli Maintenance. And Lindsay Williamson's Mil Mi-34C (Hermit) ZK-HUN5...
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Pacific Aerospace Happenings at Hamilton (2)
Last week a pretty big event took place at Pacific Aerospace at Hamilton Airport when the first flight of the Pacific Aerospace FBA-2CB Expedition took place. This was a big deal as it is not often...
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60th Anniversary of the Turbulent in New Zealand
As I have recently been involved in The Gathering, an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first flight of a Jodel D9 in New Zealand (which sadly was reduced to a "Petit Gathering" at...
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New Boeings
Seen at Auckland International in the last few days are the two latest Boeing 737 freighters for Airwork Flight Operations.ZK-FXK/2 was registered on the 7th Octoberand ZK-TLM was registered on the...
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Zlin Savage Cub ZK-ZAX at Tauranga
I have been advised that the re-registered Zlin Savage Cub ZK-ZAX had its first post restoration flight from Tauranga Airport today:ZK-ZAX (c/n 035) was registered to Q B Brears of Tauranga on 5/11/19...
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