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Tow planes at Springfield - Russell Flat.
There were four tow planes on duty during the Springfield Soaring Championships. Mike Oakley's Piper PA-18-150 ZK-BNJ (c/n 18-5063) about to line up in front of its next victim.Under a lovely sky is...
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Stacking up the hours. ZK-TKT.
Tecnam P2008 JC ZK-TKT (c/n 1163) was at Rangiora today for a service. It was registered to the New Zealand Airline Academy at Oamaru on 04-03-2020....
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Helicopters at Ardmore 11-12-2020
As usual at Ardmore last Friday there were quite a lot of helicopters about, and there were a couple that were new or different from the last time they were blogged:MBB BK 117-B2 ZK-HES4 changed...
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Aviat Pitts S 2C ZK-LDJ at Feilding Today 15-12-2020
After having been in New Zealand since February 2020 as VH-XSC, Aviat built Pitts S 2C ZK-LDJ was out in the sun at Feilding today as captured below by Simon Hills:On delivery across the Tasman as...
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Extra EA300/LC ZK-XLX at Ardmore on 6-12-2020
The second Extra 300 to be registered here (and the only one still here after ZK-XRA was exported to Canada in January 2018), came from South Africa where it was registered ZS-TIY. Dave Homewood...
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Pauanui
The arrival of a summer high has increased the visitor numbers to Pauanui airfield including some from much further afield like up from Wanaka the Cessna 172N Skyhawk II ZK-KAS now scripted as "Learn...
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ATR VH-VPI returns to Australia.
Arriving into Nelson today was this Cessna 525A Citation CJ2 VH-ZIY (c/n 525A-0156) with a crew to uplift the ATR VH-VPI and return it to Australia.VH-ZIY has been listed with Machjet International Pty...
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Zlin Shock Cub ZK-OIL/2 at Tauranga
The Zlin Aviation Shock Cub is a specially developed STOL aircraft based on the Savage Cub. Their website describes it in very flowery language at:...
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Aeroprakt Foxbat ZK-SGI at Tauranga
Tauranga is a hotbed for new sport aircraft and another new one was photo'd by WarwickHamilton last Tuesday 15/6/20:Aeroprakt A 22LS Foxbat ZK-SGI (c/n 391) was registered to DJ Signal of the North...
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Sunday at Christchurch.
A quick look around at Christchurch International early this afternoon - Sunday 20-12-2020 - produced the following.Airbus A320-232 ZK-OAB c/n 4553 joined Air New Zealand on 28-01-2011.Cessna A185F Ag...
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North Shore activity
A visit to the Inflite / Heletranz base today in Albany offered the AS350BA ZK-IEQ which is the helicopter currently being used for TV filming of the America's Cup World Series. This was imported in...
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PAC 750XL ZK-DVE
Pacific Aerospace 750XL with the constructors number 159 was registered as ZK-KAX on 12-08-2009 and first flew from Hamilton on 03-09-2009 and gained its CofA on the 9th.ZK-KAX was cancelled on...
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PAL Cresco ZK-SUZ
Continuing the theme of Pacific Aerospace, I came across an interesting video on their website so I took a screenshot:ZK-SUZ (c/n 40) is the first new Cresco in nearly 20 years and was registered to...
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PAL Cresco ZK-SUZ First Flight on 4-12-2020
Following my post on the new Cresco ZK-SUZ I checked the Pacific Aerospace Facebook page and they had added more posts including a photo of its first flight on 4/12 20:First lift off.PAL say that this...
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Pauanui
With Xmas imminent the regular summer resident aircraft have started to return to Pauanui airfield but amongst these have also been some interesting visitors including the Ibis Magic GS700 ZK-CCL2...
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Ice Bound
The Aerospatiale AS 350 B2's ZK-HNB2 (c/n 2279) and ZK-HWG2 (c/n 2816) of Heli Support International Ltd flew up from Wanaka to the Port of Lyttelton today via the east coast and out around Banks...
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Helicopters & Others at Ardmore
A visit to a busy Ardmore revealed a lot of helicopter activity including at Airbus one of 3 brand new EC130T2 recently imported, this being ZK-IBH3 registered to Advanced Flight in October.Over at...
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Spitfire ZK-NLJ/TB252 Flies at Ardmore
Just in time to be a wonderful Christmas present for some lucky person, Spitfire LF Mk XVI ZK-NLJ/TB252 test flew from Ardmore on 18/12/20 flown by John Lamont:This Spitfire arrived at Avspecs way back...
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Milholland Legal Eagle XL ZK-LLX
In April 2020 I had almost "finished" my series of Sport Aircraft of New Zealand that I started with Druine Turbulents of New Zealand way back in April 2010. But then as was bound to happen, another...
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