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Black Sands at Te Kowhai - Super Cub ZK-BOX
Among the many arrivals at Te Kowhai on Saturday was this nice looking Cub which could have come straight out of the box:PA 18A-150 Super Cub ZK-BOX (c/n 18-6243) was first registered in New Zealand...
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Around Auckland
A visit to a busy Ardmore this morning revealed a number of interesting aircraft including the not often seen GY20 Minicab ZK-DRK2 which was first registered back in 2006 and is now apparently based in...
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Black Sands at Te Kowhai - Cessna 185B ZK-CMW/2
My final offering from Black Sands 2020 is the very different looking Cessna 185B ZK-CMW2This C 185 (c/n 1850653) was built as N2653Z then it went to Costa Rica as 63-13595 for the Costa Rican...
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Just Super STOL XL ZK-DJG/2 at Tauranga
One of the aircraft I had hoped to see at Te Kowhai last Saturday was Don Gray's Super STOL XL ZK-DJG2. However I was disappointed. But I didn't have to wait long to see a photo of it with its new...
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Pancake Breakfast at NZKF this Morning 21-11-2020
It is the flyin season and the Northern Aviators Club held a successful Pancake Breakfast at Kaipara Flats airfield this morning. There were a couple of first time visiting aircraft but mostly it was...
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Christchurch International on Thursday.
A short pie run on Thursday had me chomping on a pie and a cookie at the cafe upstairs at the Canterbury Aero Club.Below was part of the view from the cafe - 6/17th of the Club fleet.With thanks to...
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LSA's at Pauanui
The last few days have seen a number of Light Sport Aircraft visit the Pauanui airfield including Vans RV12 UL ZK-EAA which was acquired by a new Tauranga owner this month.Over from its Maungatautari...
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Staaken Flitzer ZK-FTZ/2 at Waipukurau 15-11-2020
While a lot of focus in the sport aircraft scene was on Te Kowhai on the weekend before last, it was lovely weather elsewhere including Waipukurau where Ron Day took the photo:The lovely little Staaken...
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Aerospatiale AS 330 Puma N814AR at Palmerston North
Back in May 2020 a couple of Aerospatiale AS 330 Puma helicopters N814AR and N815AR were imported into New Zealand through the Ports of Auckland and then trucked to Gisborne. I have not heard much...
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ZK-CHS at Preservation Inlet 1974
From the Graeme Stratton collection we have three photographs of the Cessna 185D Skywagon ZK-CHS (c/n 1850793) operating out of Preservation Inlet, Fiordland, near the very southwestern tip of the...
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The beaut UTE
The Andy Stephenson Aviation Ltd Piper PA-46-500TP Malibu Meridian ZK-UTE3 (c/n 4697190) was noted at Rangiora yesterday.According to FR24 it did the Gisborne - Christchurch International - Rangiora...
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Boeing 737 ZK-FXJ
The Airwork Flight Operations Boeing 737-36E ZK-FXJ2 (c/n 25264) was noted yesterday at Christchurch International parked in what I still refer to as the 'Deep Freeze Apron'. Alas my camera if playing...
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Around Auckland
Noted at Auckland International on a wet day was the Air Chathams Fairchild SA227AC Metroliner ZK-CIC which has lost its Whakatane themed paint scheme in favour of the company's fleet colours.Also...
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Northern South Island
Continuing our travels in the rain but this time in the northern South Island a visit to the Nelson Aviation College at Motueka offered their latest fleet addition, Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP ZK-CGE2...
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New Air New Zealand Aircraft at Christchurch
I had a NE(O)w experience on my trip to and from Christchurch flying powered by geared turbofans.NZ549 to Christchurch on 25 November was operated by A 321 NEO ZK-NNFWhile today 30 November our flight...
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Gere Sport ZK-EFZ/2
I was very fortunate last Saturday to be able to meet up with Blue Bus and do an extended pie run (actually make that a lovely BBQ lunch - thanks Penny) that extended out past Rangiora, where we came...
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More from the South Island
Continuing our travels south Kaikoura airfield was very busy with Whale Watching flights including the GA8 Airvan which was added to the Kaikoura Air/Kaikoura Aero Club fleet in May 2020. This was...
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Timaru & Oamaru
An early arrival at Timaru airport this morning was Cessna A185F VH-AIA which arrived into Christchurch back on November 13 and has yet to adopt a ZK registration.Meantime the South Canterbury Aero...
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Bearhawk ZK-RJE
The R & B Bearhawk ZK-RJE2 (c/n 1534B) was listed to AVITEC Ltd of Nelson on 18-09-2020.It first flew from Nelson on 26-11-2020.It carried out its second flight today as captured here by Peter...
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A Belworthy Bonanza at Cust!
When I was in Christchurch I called Evan Belworthy about possibly meeting up on the Saturday and he told me that he was hosting the Young Eagles from Canterbury Aero Club to show them the Belworthy...
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