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Matamata visitors to Pauanui
The past couple of days have seen a number of visitors to Pauanui from Matamata including the very quick Bushby Midget Mustang ZK-MFE. This was originally registered to its Timaru builder back in 2006...
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ZK-ISP
Arriving into the Pauanui Waterways today was Airbus EC130T2 ZK-ISP3 of Force Aviation, Coromandel. This was originally imported in 2014 becoming ZK-IEC3 and in December 2020 was reregistered as ISP.
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Bell Long Ranger ZK-HNY/5 at North Shore 27-1-2021
Another Avgas run to North Shore today saw the newly registered Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger ZK-HNY5out doing some training circuits:ZK-HNY5 (c/n 52320) was registered to Airlift New Zealand Ltd of Milford...
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Cessna Caravans at North Shore 27-1-2021
It was just about a Caravan park at North Shore airfield around lunchtime yesterday:I just missed Barrier Air's ZK-SDC as it departed.At the same time ZK-SLA was in the circuit and touched down on...
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Medevacs at Wellington
On the ramp at Capital Jet today was Skyline Aviation's Beech B200 ZK-WPN which is operated for the NZ Air Ambulance service. This was originally imported from Australia in 2013 as ZK-MYM being...
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A few from the lower North Is
Journeying up from Wellington a stop at Paraparaumu found the Jetstream J3201 ZK-ECI parked out. This changed ownership to Origin Air in August 2020.Further on at Palmerston North the only Alpha R2160...
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Taranaki
An early morning visit to Hawera found Aerospread Ltd's Cessna 180J ZK-DXW over from Napier. This was imported new back in 1976 and acquired by the company in 2012.Up the road at Stratford an Open Day...
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I Think There Was a Yacht Race Down There
On the way back home to Kaipara Flats this afternoon I caught this image from over the Hauraki Gulf looking back towards Devonport and the City:I will post more from the very successful Thames Wings...
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 Flying at Stratford Today
The Hairy Mole Rat was at Stratford on Friday when Gary Marsh flew his Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-RGV/A58-497 :Thanks for the nice photos HMR.
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Cessna A185F ZK-DJF/2 at Thames 31-1-2021
A lovely "new" Cessna 185 that I had not seen before turned up at Thames yesterday:ZK-DJF2 (c/n 1852382) has been registered to Farmers Air of Gisborne since 19/6/18. It came from Australia where it...
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Friday visit to Rangiora
The conversion of the N.Z.A.I Fletcher FU24-954 ZK-EUA (c/n 282) is progressing well with several manned test flights carried out. Unmanned flights will soon be conducted from another site.It is...
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Pauanui
A couple of visitors to Pauanui today from further afield comprised Bell 206B ZK-IRJ up from Napier. This was imported used from the US back in 2007, and has been with its current owner since...
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Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield
In 2020 the Thames Airfield was re-named the Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield in honour of Keith Park who was born in Thames and who went on to be a pilot in World War 1, and then to play a pivotal...
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Warbirds Airshow Display at Thames Wings and Wheels
The 2021 Thames Wings and Wheels event was the fourth such gathering. This year the organisers stepped it up with a formal airshow for which the airfield was closed between 1100 hrs and 1400 hrs. The...
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Autogyro Flyin at Dannevirke
The New Zealand Autogyro Association held its annual flyin at Dannevirke over the weekend of 30/31 January 2021. Jordan Elvy and Simon Hills were there:The line up in front of the Dannevirke Flying...
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Ardmore
A visit today to a busy Ardmore offered a number of interesting aircraft including the vintage 1961 Cessna 185 ZK-CAN which has been refurbished in a smart new scheme. It has been with its current...
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A Couple of Autogyros from Te Anau plus a few others
Following on from the post about autogyros from Dannevirke, I remembered that the Hairy Mole Rat had travelled to Fiordland late in 2020 and had taken photos of a couple of different locally owned...
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Top of the South
Travelling around the top of the South Island today at Motueka we found the Sonex Xenos-B ZK-LAQ2 which was registered back in July 2020 to its local builder. Sonex first released the Xenos kit back...
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The view from my window.
Bluebus is currently parked up at Omaka ready for a dose of Healthy Bastards tomorrow.This is a fraction of the view from my window.
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SAANZ Ashburton
This years SAANZ fly in was hosted by the Ashburton Aviation Museum and attracted an impressive number of LSA, vintage and other aircraft. Of most interest was the 1941 vintage Piper J3L-65 Cub...
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