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Stratford to Te Kowhai Flight 9-1-2020
Just over a week ago my instructor at the Dargaville Aero Club, Alan Nelson gave me his approval to carry out cross country flights from Stratford to Te Kowhai and then on to Kaipara Flats to get my...
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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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Fokker Triplane Replica ZK-CCO Flies at Whitianga 24-1-2020
Peter Walton's full size Airdrome Aeroplanes Fokker Triplane replica ZK-CCO2 (c/n F1 02) made its first flight from Whitanga aerodrome one week ago, on Friday 24/1/20.Gavin Magill was there and has...
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Around Auckland
A visit to Ardmore today revealed a lot of helicopter activity including at Heliflite the former Kaikoura based R44 ZK-HCY3 which as of today was officially sold to Auckland based WSV Racing Ltd. This...
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New Zealand's Nine Fokker Triplane Replicas
When I posted about Peter Walton's new Fokker Triplane replica, I thought it remarkable that we now have nine of these aircraft in New Zealand! And here they all are in flight:Here are The Vintage...
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Omaka and the Healthy Bastard's competition
Omaka airfield today hosted the annual Healthy Bastard's flying competition and of interest amongst the competitors and visitors were the following.  1953 model Cessna 180 Robertson STOL conversion...
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Northern Aviators Club Flyin at Makarau Today 1-2-2020
The Northern Aviators club held a flyin today at Rex Swensson's airstrip at Makarau (which is in the hill country between Parakai and Warkworth). This coincided nicely for the Bay of Islands Aero Club...
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Cessnas at Nelson and Motueka
The former Nelson Aviation College Cessna 172R ZK-NAA4 has been undergoing refurbishment at Nelson for the Tauranga Aero Club and in the process was reregistered ZK-ZAA2Added to the Nelson Aviation...
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Healthy Bastards Cessna's at Omaka yesterday
Andy Heap was on the scene at Omaka for the Healthy Bastards Bush Pilots Championship on 1st February 2020.Follows is a selection of the Cessna's. Cessna 180 ZK-BJV as driven by Wallace Steel. Cessna...
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Healthy bastard's Cessna's # 2
 Mark O'Sullivan with the Cessna A185F ZK-JKH. And Cessna A185F ZK-JKL2 with Dan Gaddum. Cessna R172K Hawk "Really Jolly Good" and the sponsor Dave Baldwin. Cessna 180B ZK-RWC and Richard Coop, 4th in...
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Healthy Bastards Piper's at Omaka 01-02-2020
Now a selection of the Piper's. Piper PA-18-150 ZK-BKN was shared by Scott Madsen and Thomas van Asch, with Scott wining the STOL Light Touring category. Edmund Hallett and Jack Griffith shared the...
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Mad Bastards mixture.
Now for some of the non Piper or Cessna competitors. Paul Godfrey in Kitfox IV ZK-JFA was placed 4th in the STOL Microlight category. Zlin Savage Cub ZK-KSC and Luke Coleman. Willie Sage in the Maule...
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A few more from Mad Healthy Bastards
 Hamish Crowe was with the Zenith CH701 STOL ZK-SLO. With Chris Anderson in his 701 STOL ZK-TIA grabbing 3rd in the STOL Microlight category. Geoff van Asch and the Murphy Rebel ZK-VAN3. Philip Royds...
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Agusta Westland A109 Trekker I-PTFO
Errol Cavit flicked me a photograph of this Agusta Westland A109S Trekker captured at Ardmore today 02-02-2020 (see bottom photo).Turns out there have been at least fifteen allocations of this Italian...
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Hamilton
Hamilton on a warm 30deg day had a lot of activity including the latest GCH Aviation Beech 200C ZK-FDS2 very appropriate for its NZ Flying Doctor Service titling.  This arrived from Australia in...
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Air New Zealand ATR 72 ZK-MZD
Thanks again to Warwick Hamilton for keeping us up to date with the latest ATR 72 in the Air New Zealand fleet:ZK-MZD (c/n 1592) was registered to Air New Zealand on 28/12/19.
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Air Tractor AT 402B ZK-RUR at Manakau
Tim Gorman captured the Rural Aerial Cooperative's Air Tractor AT 402B ZK-RUR2 at work at Manakau recently, and he got some nice action shots of it at work:That's a pretty long wing!Thanks for the...
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Helicopters in Taranaki
A trip around Taranaki today en route SAANZ at Hawera offered a number of interesting helicopters starting with a visit to the HNZ offshore base at New Plymouth Airport where AW139 ZK-HNZ5 was just...
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Pie run to NZCH today 07-02-2020
A quick run around at Christchurch International late this morning in rather grotty lighting conditions found the Piper PA-28-181 Archer II ZK-FHQ (c/n 28-7790326) at the 'Club' tie downs.It has been...
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Rangiora pie run Friday 07-02-2020
Rangiora on Friday 07-02-2020.A stranger parked up was the Piper PA-28-180 Cherokee Challenger ZK-DGO (c/n 28-7305220) of Hawera Piper Ltd of Hawera.This spent its first fifteen years with the Waikato...
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