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Park overs at Christchurch
There were four ATR's parked up outside at Christchurch today.ZK-MCB above.ZK-MCP below.And ZK-MCU above.ZK-MCY was parked around between other hangars.Also lurking about were six Lockheed...
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Police 3 in town for five weeks.
The Bell 429 Global Ranger 'Police 3' is to be based at Christchurch for about five weeks. Pictured today.
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Auckland International
A visit to a busy Auckland Airport today offered the Air Chathams DC3C ZK-AWP which has recently been repainted in historic NAC Colours as "Skyliner Kaitaia"And not blogged here before the Napier based...
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Another Antarctic season winds down.
Another Antarctic flight season winding down.Below are a few shots taken yesterday.The C17 09-9211 sitting fat and happy.Above LC130H 83-0490 receiving some attention. With 92-1094 parked alongside....
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More pics of parked up ATR's at NZCH
Here we have a few more views from a different angle of the parked up AtR's at Christchurch International Airport ZK-MCP, ZK-MCB and ZK-MCU with fundamental orifices bunged.Above we see ZK-MCP and...
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Wellington International Today 24-2-2020
You can't beat Wellington on a Good Day, and it was a pearler this morning as I waited for my flight to Auckland. Here are few interesting movements over half an hour:Originair are back flying again...
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Auckland International back on 20-2-2020
I travelled down to Wellington last Thursday, and as usual I allowed enough time for a look see down at the Air New Zealand and Air Chathams maintenance areas:I don't know how much utilisation Air New...
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Aah de Havilland! at Mandeville 23-2-2020
The Hairy Mole Rat sure gets around and over last weekend he was at the Fly in and Steam Festival held at Mandeville on a lovely day on the green green grass of their home.Here are what I reckon would...
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Ah Ha. Piper at Mandeville.
The Piper PA-22-150 Tri Pacer ZK-BLE (c/n 22-4512) came new to the NZ Piper Agents, Airwork (NZ) Ltd of Christchurch, and was registered to them on 26-11-1956.In early 1957 it was listed to Ken...
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Wellington International back on 21-2-2020
An interesting visitor to Wellington (and unknown points a helicopter ride away) was Jeff Bezos who arrived in his Gulfstream G650 N758PB on Thursday 20/2/20.Jeff Bezos is described as an American...
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Thruxton Jackaroo ZK-PHZ.
The Thruxton Jackaroo ZK-PHZ (c/n 82151) first flew in NZ at Tauranga yesterday evening (25-02-2020) in the hands of David Phillips. These two photos have been kindly provided by Warwick Hamilton. Our...
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Pukekawa Hangar Today 27-2-2020
I travelled down to see Wess Ruijne at Pukekawa today to pick up some aircraft stuff. He has and airstrip and hangar on the interestingly named Clark and Denize Road, opposite the Meremere Drag strip...
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Wellington International back on 22-2-2020
Last Saturday I thought I would head on down to the Southern end of the runway to catch Air New Zealand's Airbus A 320 NEO that was flying the Wellington to Sydney route:A 320 NEO ZK-NHC arrived on...
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Around Auckland
Arriving at Oceania Aviation at Ardmore today was the Canadian Helicopters AS350B-2 C-GHVU which was formerly our ZK-HVU4 between 2013 and 2018.Also showing signs of its Canadian heritage was the very...
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Around South Auckland 27-2-2020
After I left Pukekawa yesterday it would have been rude not to have stopped in to Mercer, and the carry on to Pukekohe:Mercer was very quiet with a couple of L3 CTS Airline Academy Cessna 172s there...
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Dunedin Helicopters
On the ramp at Dunedin Airport today were 2 of the HNZ Offshore fleet being readied for departure back to New Plymouth after completion of their contract off the Otago coast, comprising the AW139...
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Bristol F2B Fighter at Ardmore
The New Zealand Warbirds Associations Bristol F2B Fighter ZK-PRK (c/n 1) as captured recently at Ardmore by Errol Cavit. Pilot for the occasion was Ryan Southam. Also on the scene in the background was...
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More pics of Police 3.
Police 3 is still active in the Christchurch area as seen here on Thursday afternoon. The logo on the tail is thus.
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Starlets on the Brown Carpet at Kaipara Flats 29-2-2020
It was really neat to welcome a gaggle of Starlets and a motorhome to Kaipara Flats airfield this afternoon. Don Wilkinson, Scott Montagu and Gordon Lindsay were the pilots and DCM drove up in the...
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The next Mil 34C Hermit.
Parked outside the Heli Maintenance hangar at Christchurch on Thursday (27-02-2020) was the next Mil 34C for NZ civil certification.Ex Nigerian Air Force NAF 550 is c/n 9783033701003.Below is a pic I...
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