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Whanganui and Taranaki
Continuing our travels a visit to Whanganui offered the Mid West Helicopters R44 sprayer ZK-ICF, originally imported new back in 2004Also at Whanganui a couple of the newer Cessna 172R additions to...
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Another Dargaville Flight Today - 8-2-2020
Things are happening at Kaipara Flats airfield these days with Bruce Lynch's big new hangar now finished with his Tiger Moth now inside, my Jodel D 9 in the Aero Club hangar and my fellow microlight...
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SportAvex 2020
The annual SAANZ SportAvex fly-in for 2020 was held at Hawera airfield and attracted a small but interesting group of aircraft.Included amongst these were 2 aircraft owned by Wayne Butt of New...
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ZK-UPS
Amongst the mass of Tauranga visitors to Pauanui airfield today was the Kaitaia based 1981 model Piper PA28-181 Archer II ZK-UPS. Originally VH-BVN in Australia this flew across the Tasman arriving...
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Challenger N604CA
Arriving at Christchurch International mid-afternoon today from Nadi in Fiji was the Bombardier CL-600-2B16 N604CA (c/n 5304).N604CA on short finals - a long shot through the heat haze.It proceeded to...
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Dargaville for Lunch on 8-2-2020
As I have previously posted, I flew up to Dargaville yesterday for their every-Saturday lunch, and as usual there was a good selection of aircraft - I counted 14 visitors for lunch.Allan Cameron was...
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Kerikeri on Sunday the 9th.
Following an open day at Kaitaia on Sunday the Catalina ZK-PBY stopped in at Kerikeri on its way back south, I believe to do a local scenic flight.Alan H was on site at Kerikeri and captured these...
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Pauanui
Amongst the visitors to Pauanui this week was the Martin Aviation Services' 1961 model Cessna 185 ZK-CAV which has recently been refurbished at ArdmoreAnd the HeleTranz AS350BA ZK-HFZ2 heading offshore...
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Lunch at Raglan Today 11-2-2020
I received an email from John Crone last night asking if I wanted to go flying down to Raglan today for lunch. There is only one answer to this type of email!So John picked me up this morning in his...
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Return Flight from Raglan on 11-2-2020
After our very pleasant lunch at Raglan we headed back to the airfield and after start up we headed back North flying together with Ian Anderson and I thought I would try some air-to-air photography...
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Something a bit different at Pauanui
Jets at Pauanui airfield arnt exactly common as the 2500ft grass runway is not ideal for them, but today saw a low level flypast of Tauranga's Eastern Jets L-39C Albatross ZK-TCS. Using callsign...
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Gone - ZK-OJK
I do not normally go out of my way to photograph an airliner but purely by chance on 6th February I snapped a shot of ZK-OJK at Christchurch minus all of its ANZ vinyls. (see bottom pic).Within a...
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Squirrel ZK-HCZ
On 30th November I wrote this about the AS 350 BA Squirrel ZK-HNX3. "An unexpected find was the Aerospatiale AS 350 BA ZK-HNX3 (c/n 1828).This was acquired by Helicopters (NZ) Ltd in 1999 from the...
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RAANZ Feilding
For 2020 RAANZ held its annual fly-in at Feilding airfield hosted by the Feilding Flying Club and Manawatu Aviation Club. The event attracted a small but interesting group of aircraft from around the...
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RAANZ Feilding (2)
Although I couldn't make it down to Feilding for the 2020 RAANZ flyin, I was interested to see the photos posted by others. I am particularly interested in small single seat aircraft so here are a few...
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RAANZ Feilding (3)
Some further interesting aircraft were at the RAANZ flyin at Feilding over the weekend, and I post a few of them here:Stan Hyde's lovely Porterfield 35-70 ZK-POR (c/n 137) was out flying with Ross...
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Canterbury visits
Visiting Pauanui today was the Canterbury Aero Club's Piper PA28-161 Warrior II ZK-EBC2. This was previously ZK-MBC and was refurbished by the Aero Club in 2019 and reregistered EBC in the process in...
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Sounds Air's Latest Pilatus PC 12 ZK-PLB
Jordan Elvy caught Sounds Air's latest Pilatus PC 12 at Paraparaumu last week:ZK-PLB (c/n 725) was registered in New Zealand on 15/11/19. It was previously VH-YWO of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of...
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Kaipara Flats Back on 13-2-2020
As my aircraft is now based at Kaipara Flats airfield I am out there more often and so I get to see some aircraft movements that happen. Last Thursday was a case in point when Phil Haslemore flew his...
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Kaipara Flats Back on 14-2-2020
Last Friday Don Wilkinson flew up to Kaipara Flats airfield on a helicoil repair mission, followed by DCM who drive Don's car up.Don's venerable Corby Starlet ZK-TOY (and Don) have had a very long and...
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