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Pauanui
The flow of Xmas resident aircraft into Pauanui commenced over the weekend but over and above these the Tauranga Aero Club's latest Cessna 172N ZK-FLT visited, now painted in the club's colours and...
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Pauanui Xmas Eve
One of the more interesting visitors on Xmas Eve at Pauanui was the NZ Warbirds Miles M38 Messenger IIA ZK-CMM2 which made several landings in the course of a day spent tripping around the...
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Question time for Christmas day
Merry Christmas all.Herewith a dozen photographs for you to ponder.**************************** Number 1.This one is not particularly civil - but we have had four of this type on the register. I am...
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Up on the Tasman Glacier on 10-9-2019
A definite highlight of 2019 for me was our skiplane flight up on to the Tasman Glacier and return helicopter flight, on 10 September. I have posted some photos previously on the blog but it was so...
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Tango Charlie Echo
I was very pleasantly surprised to capture the Helio H-250 Courier ZK-TCE (c/n 2503) at Rangiora on the 24th.It now wears larger wheels.It has appeared on this blog before Here
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Whitianga
The Mercury Bay Aero Club held its annual Open Day at Whitianga airfield today and the event attracted a wide variety of aircraft including locally based Cessna 180 ZK-AMK2 of Matahui Airlines, which...
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Dargaville Yesterday 28-12-2019
I drove up to Dargaville yesterday for the last Saturday lunch of the year, and the lunch as usual was great.A somewhat blustery wind maybe kept some flyers at home, but there were several planes and...
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Pauanui
Settled weather on the Coromandel since Xmas day has seen a large number of visitors to the Pauanui airfield and amongst these was the Ardmore based Stearman ZK-BOE2 ("77") which was very busy...
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ZK-MOT
I have just received he following email from Robert Turner in the UK.Rather than regurgitate it I include Robert's full email below. Hello,I very much enjoy your blog from afar - I live in...
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Highlight of 2019?
2019 has been a great year for aircraft happenings in New Zealand, but what do you think was the highlight?I reckon it was early on in the year, on January 13th, when the Avspecs restored ex RNZAF...
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The Sport Aircraft Year 2019
As has been my wont for the last few years, I will review the sport aircraft year that was 2019:By my reckoning there were 52 new sport aircraft registered during 2019 (which compares very favourably...
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Pauanui
Activity continues apace at Pauanui leading up to New Year and new visitors to the airfield included Helicopter Me's AS350B2 ZK-HBQ5 dropping off some passengers before returning to its Mechanics Bay...
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Ardmore Flying School
New Year saw most of the Ardmore Flying School fleet parked up at Ardmore including 2 more Cessna 172S added in December, being ZK-EWZ which was flown across from Australia and had an easy transition...
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ZK-IHP through Christchurch
Lifting off from the GCH Christchurch facility today was the HNZ New Zealand Limited's Agusta AW139 ZK-IHP (c/n 31146) - southbound for Dunedin.This AW139 was originally listed in NZ as ZK-HUL3 on...
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HeleTranz
Continuing the helicopter theme below a visit to the North Shore heliport in Albany revealed HeleTranz's EC130B4 ZK-IZI which was reregistered from ZK-HEA5 in November 2019. It was originally ZK-IEA...
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ZK-HNZ at New Plymouth
As we are on a bit of a helicopter theme, here are a few photos of HNZ New Zealand Ltd's Agusta AW 139 ZK-HNZ4 that I took at New Plymouth back on 4/11/19:As I arrived the big helicopter was flying...
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2020's first NZRT Pie Run.
The first Rangiora Pie Run for 2020 was carried out this day in rather difficult lighting conditions - just prior to some very welcome light rain. Savannah S ZK-SRT2 is c/n 15-09-54-0417 in the...
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Kaipara Flats Today 3-1-2020
I was out at Kaipara Flats Airfield this afternoon helping to prepare for our Northern Aviators Club Pancake Breakfast Flyin tomorrow morning, when a couple of autogyros hove into view overhead:Geoff...
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NAC Pancake Breakfast at NZKF 4-1-2019
The Northern Aviators Club Pancake Breakfast flyin at Kaipara Flats this morning had a smaller attendance than last year due to the 25 knot South Westerly winds. However this did not stop some hardy...
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