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Deregistration.
"Blue Bus" cancelled. DBF Christchurch 11th January 2020. In its thirtieth year.A private memorial service has been held.DBF in aviation historian parlance means destroyed by fire.Above we see the...
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Northern Aviators Club Flyin at Mata Today 18-1-2020
As you can see from the photos the weather was great for the Northern Aviators Club flyin at Leo Johns airstrip at Mata today. Leo's 700 metre airstrip is located about 5 nautical miles South West of...
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Tauranga City Airshow 18-1-2020
The Classics of the Sky Tauranga City Airshow was held yesterday afternoon. This event also encompassed The Mount Truck Show so there was also lots of exotic machinery on display.Rodger Coleclough...
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ZK-HQL to a new home.
Hughes 369HS ZK-HQL3 (c/n 1220438S) as seen landing at Heli Maintenance at Christchurch on December the 19th last year.As you can tell, it is a late 1972 built machine.It came onto the NZ register on...
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Golden Bay Air Airvan at Paraparaumu Today - 20-1-2020
With the fog at Wellington this morning Golden Bay Air flew their Gippsland Airvan ZK-ZUG into Paraparaumu. Tim Gorman was there to photo it:Thanks for the photo Tim.
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Bruce Walker Skylark ZK-MYT at Waipukurau
An interesting sport aircraft flying from Waipukurau recently was the Bruce Walker Skylark ZK-MYT :This aircraft has been posted on the blog previously, and for more detail about it see:...
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Bristells In Pauanui
This morning's star visitors to Pauanui were a couple of Bristells from the Waikato being the brand new NG5 ZK-SAM4 imported in late 2019 for Sam Reid of Hamilton. And accompanying SAM was Martin...
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More 'Classics of the Sky' photos from Tauranga
At the behest of Sir Minty, a selection of my photos from this airshow.The event was rather more low-key than previous years, with no SportAv participants apart from two gyros.The Museum's Vampire was...
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Zenair Zodiac ZK-ZOT at Stratford
Nick Furmage photo'd the Zenair Zodiac CH 601UL ZK-ZOT at Stratford today, 23/1/20. Stratford is CH 601 country!It was up from Foxpine where it is now based, and it can be seen that it hasn't changed...
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Pauanui
Interesting visitors continue to arrive at Pauanui and amongst these was the privately owned Bell 505 ZK-IJX which is based on a farm near Colville in the northern CoromandelFormer Nelson resident...
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Mk 25 Spitfire Flying Again at Stratford
After a few teething problems, Gary Marsh's Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-RGV has been flying again from Stratford Aerodrome recently. Nick Furmage was on hand to take these photos on 18 January:Gary...
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Belated photos from Ardmore
Errol Cavit has kindly sent in these two photographs taken at Ardmore on January 12th 2020The Found Aircraft Canada Inc E-350 Expedition (FBA-2C3) N883MX (c/n 307) as seen on take off and now on its...
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Thames Wings & Wheels 2020
The annual Thames Wings & Wheels was held today at Thames airfield and attracted some 80 + aircraft before the start of the newly introduced airshow. Amongst these was the Titan T-51 ZK-DGM2 down...
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More from Thames Wings & Wheels 2020
Mark Pattenden was also at Wings and Wheels at Thames today, and has sent these photos of a couple of new aircraft at their first Wings and Wheels event:Ian Chapman's new Vans RV 6 ZK-VNZ from...
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Pauanui
Auckland Anniversary Weekend has brought an increase in the number of visitors to Pauanui and amongst these today was the Wanganui Aero Club's Cessna 172S ZK-JIP3. This was formerly ZK-RQA being...
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Fisher Dakota Hawk ZK-LAF Flies at Nelson 25-1-2020
Richard Rayne's Fisher Dakota Hawk ZK-LAF made its initial test flight at Nelson yesterday, Saturday 25 January 2020, flown by Evan Belworthy. It is powered by a Rotax 912.This is the third Fisher...
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Minicab ZK-EEF Flying Again at Stratford
Nick Furmage and Sue Leeves purchased their Minicab ZK-EEF back on 31/7/16 and Nick has been refurbishing it since. It has recently been relocated back to Stratford Aerodrome and it now has flown...
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Air New Zealand ATR 72 ZK-MZC
Warwick Hamilton recently captured Air New Zealand's second to latest ATR 72 ZK-MZC at Tauranga recently:ZK-MZC (c/n 1581) was first registered to Air New Zealand on 15/12/19. This aircraft was...
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At Christchurch this day 29-01-2020
From a very warm afternoon in Christchurch I offer these three aircraft. I seem to have the infinite capacity of seeing the back end of the Mil 34 ZK-HUN5 (c/n 9783034102005)Caught this afternoon...
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Canterbury Aero Club latest arrivals.
The two latest additions to the Canterbury Aero Club fleet arrived via flat deck yesterday morning (29-01-2020)N9423C is a Piper PA-28-161 Warrior with the c/n of 28-7816476 and was registered to the...
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