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Warbirds WW 1 Aircraft at Ardmore - 25-6-2020
I was fortunate in my timing of arriving at the Warbirds WW 1 hangar as Frank Parker was just about to lock up, but he opened the side door and showed me around briefly.Frank told me that they were...
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Fridays Jets at NZCH
A surprise catch on Friday at Christchurch International were these two executive jet movements.Below we see both of them against the backdrop of the GCH Aviation facility.Above we have the Falcon 50...
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Glenorchy via CMM
CMM has made it to Glenorchy and the only action to be found was - well - with Action Helicopters Above we have the Squirrels ZK-ITM and ZK-HGQ on the hard outside their hangar. The Eurocopter AS 350...
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A Couple of ex-Oz Vans at Ardmore - 25-6-2020
In addition to the warbirds that I have posted from Ardmore last week, there were a couple of "new" Vans aircraft that were shipped to New Zealand from Australia recently:RV 6 ZK-SJC (c/n 24846) was...
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ZK-RVH at Glenorchy.
Roving reporter CMM snapped the Vans RV-4 ZK-RVH at Glenorchy on Monday 30-06-2020 ZK-RVH c/n 3906 was built by Gary Hann of Stratford and joined our register in December of 1999.It was sold to current...
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-Something Different at NZKF Today - 1-7-2020
Not civil but operating at a civil airfield, a Royal New Zealand Navy Kaman SH-2G (I) Super Sea Sprite helicopter NZ3612 arrived overhead at Kaipara Flats airfield this afternoon and flew a couple of...
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Chilton DW 1 Replicas (Only One) of New Zealand
Now we are on to 2019 new sport aircraft registrations, of which there were only two, the first being the Chilton DW 1 replica:The Chilton DW 1 was a 1930s design for a light sporting monoplane. It...
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The front arrives at NZCH
Christchurch today.Above "out of the blue" ATR 72-212A ZK-MVZ c/n 1562 on short finals from the northBelow "into the black" on even shorter finals into the approaching front.Then came the Emirates...
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Overdue Pie Run
Meteorological conditions have prevented my regular Friday pie run to Rangiora - but today was a real winter cracker of a day.Here we see a few of the aircraft worthy of note. The Rowan Rudd Denney...
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ZK-IZG
Noted at Airbus Helicopters at Ardmore this week was the Palmerston North based EC120B ZK-IZG with Greentech Robotics script replacing its previous Frog Parking titling. This was imported from the US...
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Taylor J 2 Cub ZK-AGD to NZYP
Ron Day reports that he has now relocated the classic Taylor J 2 Cub ZK-AGD to its new base at Waipukurau. The ferry flight took place one week ago, on Sunday 28 June.Ready to go, once the fog had...
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Flying Over and Under North Head on 3 July
I had cause to be in Devonport last Friday afternoon and as it was a nice day I headed up to North Head to see if I could get a glimpse of Team New Zealand's latest foiling monohull "Te Aihe" (which...
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Auckland
After giving up on Ardmore due to horizontal rain and wind a brief visit to Auckland International proved more fruitful with GCH Aviation's 1980 model Cessna 441 Conquest ZK-NFD2, the rainbow behind...
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Airdrome Aeroplanes Fokker Triplane Replicas (Only One) of New Zealand
We are nearly completely up to date with this series of sport aircraft of New Zealand, well at least the fixed wing variety, with a couple of first of types that were registered here in 2020:The...
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Pulsar N995BP at Tauranga Today 9-7-2020
Captured by The Hairy Mole Rat at Tauranga today was this nice tri-gear Aero Designs Pulsar XP:N995BP will no doubt appear on the New Zealand register in due course.
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Vale Bill BlackWednesday 1 July saw the passing of Bill Black, MBE, helicopter pilot extrordinaire, after a long career in the lower South Island. He commenced commercial helicopter flying in 1967 as...
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Aerowork Cresco ZK-LTY at NZPM
Tim Gorman was a Milson airport a couple of weeks ago and captured the Ravensdown Aerowork Cresco ZK-LTY parked outside. This particular Cresco has not been posted on the blog before:Pacific Aerospace...
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Les Eade. Rest in peace.
VERNON LESLIE EADESunday the 5th July as the result of a motor vehicle accident just north of his home town of Cheviot.Ann was badly injured and helicoptered to Christchurch hospital.An “incredible...
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Quiet day at Rangiora.
Another day of magic winter weather at Rangiora.New on the scene is the Pipistrel Alpha Electro ZK-EAL4 (c/n 942 AE 60) as listed with Electric Airline Ltd on 19 March 2020.And almost a year old is the...
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