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Alpi Pioneer 300 ZK-YAN/LPT2
Back on 19 March 2020 when aircraft were still being bought and sold....Further back on 16/1/17 Pioneer 300 ZK-YAN was registered to Erol N Yanar of Christchurch, and it has not appeared on this blog...
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Rainbow Aircraft Cheetahs (Only One) of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand, in 2012, was the Rainbow Aircraft Cheetah.The Rainbow Aircraft Cheetah was developed in South Africa from the Best Off Skyranger by...
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SkyReach Bushcats of New Zealand
I have previously posted about our only Rainbow Cheetah aircraft, and the SkyReach BushCat was developed from the CheetahSkyReach Aircraft was formed out of Rainbow Aircraft Pty and uses the same...
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Brief activity at NZCH this morning.
Mid morning at Christchurch I managed this wild shot of the Christchurch Helicopters 2012 Ltd Aerospatiale AS 350 B2 ZK-HND3 overflying my humble hacienda heading towards the Port Hills.Attached...
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Bulls Flying Doctor on Essential Service Today 5-4-2020
Tim Gorman is in lockdown in a good spot to photograph planes flying overhead transitting North/South and vice versa.Dr Dave Baldwin overflying Tim today in his Cessna R172H Hawk XP II ZK-RJG, on his...
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Homegrown Two Seat Homebuilt Aircraft of New Zealand (12) - L M Harris CASH...
Three Homegrown Two Seat Homebuilt aircraft were registered in New Zealand at the end of 2012, and I post the first one here.Harry Harris of Tauranga has built several aircraft including a couple he...
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Homegrown Two Seat Homebuilt Aircraft of New Zealand - Grimmer Skylux
The second of three of our Homegrown Two Seat Homebuilt aircraft to be registered in late 2012:Gavin Grimmer of Hastings had previously built his Maranda AMF-S14 DIXW ZK-JGR which he registered in...
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Homegrown Two Seat Homebuilt Aircraft of New Zealand (14) - Hansen Deuce
The third homegrown homebuilt aircraft to be registered at the end of 2012 was the Hansen Deuce:John Hansen is a long time stalwart of the homebuilt aircraft movement in New Zealand, having purchased...
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Carbon Cubs of New Zealand Update
Earlier in April I posted about our Carbon Cubs of New Zealand. A blog follower has pointed out some factual inexactitudes in this post in that the genesis of the Carbon Cub was the Piper PA 18 Cub...
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Tomark Viper SD 4s (Only One) of New Zealand
We are now up to 2013 in this series. From around that time to the present there were quite a few sport aircraft registered of which we have had only one example, such as the Tomark Viper SD 4:The...
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Cessna 152 ZK-JFY
Jorden Steyn was at the Walsh Memorial Scout Flying School at Matamata Airfield in January 2020, and captured this photo of the Manakau Flying School's Cessna 152 ZK-JFY in a slightly new colour scheme...
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We Will Come Out the Other Side!
There is a New Zealand link to this photo that I got as a screen shot, of Mikael Carlson flying his rotary engined Thulin A/Bleriot XI replica at Hahnweide in 2016:The link is that this could be the...
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Preceptor Ultrapups (Only One) of New Zealand
Next up in 2013 was the Preceptor Ultrapup which is a 3/4 scale two seat J 3 Cub replica that is a close cousin to the single seat Nostalgair N 3 Pup of which we have also had one registered - ZK-FSK...
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COVID-19 Support Flight activities
Outside the normal sphere of coverage for this blog but worth recording for historical purposes is the foreign component of supporting flight activities in response to the global effects of COVID-19....
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Classic Aircraft Waco YMFs of New Zealand
The original Waco Aircraft Company grew out of the Weaver Aircraft Company and was first formed in 1928 or 1929 (the records are unclear). They were based at Troy, Ohio and they developed and built...
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BRM Aero Bristell NG 5s of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand in 2013 was the BRM Aero Bristell NG 5.BRM Aero Ltd was formed by Milan Bristela and his son Martin in 2009 based in Kunovice in the...
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Urban Air Lambadas (Only One) of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand in 2013 was a bit different as it was a somewhat rare beast being a Class 2 microlight motor glider.The Urban Air UFM-13 Lambada was...
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Walter Fletcher ZK-LAC
Our intrepid CMM has been out exercising his bubble in the overshoot paddock at the end of runway 29 at Wanaka and spotted the NZ Aerospace FU29-950 Walter Turbine conversion ZK-LAC2 (c/n 157) lurking...
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Johnston Acrolight 1Cs (Only One) of New Zealand
The next new type to be registered in 2013 was the Johnston Acrolight 1C:The Acrolight family of mostly single seat sports aircraft was designed by Ron Wilson and was produced as a plans only amateur...
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R & B Bearhawks of New Zealand
The seventh of eight new types of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand in 2013 was the R & B Bearhawk:The Bearhawk (also called the Barrows Bearhawk) was designed by American Bob Barrows...
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