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Parsons Trainer Gyrocopter ZK-RAO/3 at Whangarei
Rusty Russell of the Whangarei Flying Club has recently posted on Facebook about a gyrocopter that is a long way from its home base:The Parsons Trainer gyrocopter ZK-RAO3 (c/n 685) has an interesting...
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Pauanui
An interesting early morning visitor to Pauanui today was the Whanganui based Maule MXT7-180 Star Rocket ZK-JQY which was originally imported new into NZ in early 2007.And down from North Shore a...
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Westport on the 13th
A short stopover at Westport on the 13th found the Murray Bowe Cessna 172 ZK-REV c/n 29853 arriving at the terminal area.Parked awaiting its next service was the Sounds Air Pilatus PC-12/45 ZK-PLS2...
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Two from Nelson today
Lord Nelson has provided these two photographs as taken at Nelson today (15-01-2021).Aerospatiale AS 350 BA ZK-IMK2 c/n 1213 was listed with GCH Aviation Ltd on 14-10-2020 and wears their small logo...
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Flying Over the Waitemata Today 15-1-2021
What a fantastic day for the start of the Prada Cup on the Waitemata Harbour this afternoon. The wind was just about right (For Ineos Team UK at least), the sun shone and there were huge numbers of...
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Pauanui
Some great summer weather over the last 2 days has increased the visitors to Pauanui airfield with most interest being created by the arrival of the Wellington based Evander Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan...
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Dargaville for Lunch Today 16-1-2021
It is almost exactly one year since I last flew to Dargaville for lunch, and it was great to catch up with a lot of familiar faces there today.You could have been forgiven for thinking that the lunch...
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Long shots at Greymouth 16-01-2021
A quick poke around at Greymouth this afternoon found these four aircraft. All long shots.From the Nelson Aviation College at Motueka was the Cessna 172S...
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More from Pauanui
Further to yesterday's blog, visitors continued to arrive into Pauanui and amongst them was the Tecnam P92 Echo Super UL ZK-CDL2 which was imported new in 2003 and changed ownership to the West...
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A Couple of Surprises
On view at North Shore airfield today was Grand Caravan N522EX.This is not its first visit to NZ - it came here as a new aircraft on demo back in 2019.While over at Whenuapai Cessna 172N ZK-JAF has...
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Around Auckland
A visit today to a busy Ardmore was rewarded with 2 "new" warbirds outside these being Spitfire LF XVI ZK-NLJ at Avspecs which had just returned from another test flight.And at Pioneer Aero the Curtiss...
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Celebrating Spitfire LF XVI TB252/ZK-NLJ
Following on from Richard Currie's post from Ardmore, some more spectacular images and a video of the Spitfire performing aerobatics over the Firth of Thames have appeared on the Avspecs facebook page....
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Vans RV 9A ZK-RVE/2 Revisited
Tim Gorman of the ZKaviation website was at Paraparaumu airport last Sunday 17/1/21 when the local RV 9A ZK-RVE2 was pushed out of its hangar:Observant readers will note that it has acquired squiggly...
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Into wind
Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty breezy from the northwest.Here we see some of the Canterbury Aero Club's aircraft aligned into wind yesterday.The ANZ ATR 72-212A ZK-MCB c/n 598 which was withdrawn...
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Pauanui
Despite the blustery conditions the airfield at Pauanui attracted a steady stream of Saturday visitors, including down from Whitianga the 1963 model Cessna 185C Skywagon ZK-JHS which has been with the...
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Around Auckland
Tripping around Auckland on a wet Sunday found Barrier Air's latest Cessna 208B Caravan ZK-SLA at North Shore airfield. This has been leased from this month from True South to operate Barrier Air's...
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Whanganui Aero Club's open day Sunday 24th
Zac Yates was at Whanganui Airport today for the Wanganui aero Club's open day.Here are a few of his photos from the day.Scottish Aviation Bulldog Srs 120 ZK-WUF (c/n BH120/315) joined the NZ register...
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New at Ardmore
A visit to Ardmore revealed a couple of new arrivals, being our first Embraer EMB500 Phenom 100 executive jet ZK-PHN. This was built in 2011 and arrived into Auckland from Norfolk Island wearing a...
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T 28B Trojan ZK-TGN Delivery Flight Today 25-1-2020
Brian Hall's North American T 28B Trojan ZK-TGN finally made its long delayed delivery flight South from Ardmore to Ashburton today. Jordan Elvy was on hand as it transitted through Paraparaumu to...
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Looking Back on the NZ Civair 2020 Year
Well 2020 turned out to be a year unlike any other in living memory. It started out so well!Well it didn't turn out to be triple happy, but here are the blog header photos for 2020.Thanks to the...
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