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Parked out at Christchurch
Noted parked out on the western grass at Christchurch yesterday (30-07-2021) was the Cessna P210N Centurion ZK-SCH (c/n P21000718) which has been listed with the Scenic Circle Hotels Ltd/Scenic Hotel...
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HB & EC AC southern invasion
The Hawkes Bay and East Coast Aero Club/ Air Hawkes Bay squadron arrived into Christchurch yesterday afternoon. After spending the night they headed for Timaru and the Mackenzie Basin today.Tony...
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Matamata and onto Taupo
Heading down to Taupo on a stunning winter Sunday a stopover at Matamata airfield was rewarded by the former Australian Sonex ZK-VWS. This was registered back in October 2019 to a Putaruru...
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Rotorua and onto Tauranga
Noted at Rotorua Airport this morning was Bell 206B ZK-HTX2. Formerly part of the High Country Helicopters fleet at Riversdale this has been operating in the North Island for the last couple of...
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Also at Tauranga Today - Agcat ZK-RTA
The Hairy Mole Rat was also at Tauranga airport this morning and caught the locally owned Grumman G 164A Ag Cat ZK-RTA2 in action:Is this aircraft still used for tourist flights?Thanks for the nice...
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Pitts S 2A ZK-PTO - I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know
I was interested to see an amazing photo posted on Facebook recently by Gerard Morris. Gerard posted that the photo was taken during a pilots practice day at Wanaka about a month before Wings Over...
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ZK-HCN (3)
A visitor to the Pauanui Waterways today was AS350B2 ZK-HCN3 which was imported by Airwork NZ at the beginning of 2021 from Canada. Originally built in 1992 this arrived in NZ in a dark blue paint...
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Takaka Dawn Raid Yesterday 7-8-2021
The well travelled Hairy Mole Rat was at Takaka yesterday morning for their dawn raid (which had been previously postponed due to the weather and I think they just snuck in a good day yesterday from...
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Rhonlerche ZK-GBQ
Sunday the 8th was not a good day for airfield trawling. Next option was the Air Force Museum at Wigram.I was not disappointed. As you would expect the majority of the display aircraft are purely...
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JetRanger ZK-HAJ
Bell 206B JetRanger III VH-FCD4 was noted at Heli Maintenance on 01-07-2021.After some TLC it was out in the fresh air today for its first engine runs in NZ. It was also new to the register today. With...
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Further Down Milford Sound by Trike
Following on from the new August blog header photo, I should say thanks to Jonathon Summers who supplied the photo of his Pegasus Aviation Quantum 15-912 trike ZK-DWS2 (c/n 7406) flying over the mouth...
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First NZ Flight of WACO YMF ZK-YMF Today
Marty Cantlon test flew his beautiful Classic Aircraft WACO YMF-5 ZK-YMF at Tauranga this morning:I will look forward to seeing it at Classic Fighters - there should be quite a few WACOs there I...
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Avid Flyer Mk IV STOL ZK-PCL Airborne Again Today
Avid Flyer Mk IV STOL ZK-PCL was built by Brian Leach of Matakana and was first registered to him on 21/1/04. It has been inactive for some years hangared at Brian's airstrip on his farm.However it...
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Motueka and around
A visit to Motueka airfield today found Hughes 369D ZK-INA2 which had only been registered to Argus Aviation on Monday this week. Built in 1977 it has been imported from the US.Also at Argus Aviation...
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Motueka revisited
A revisit to Motueka airfield today offered more of interest including Wyndon Aviation's 1995 Maule MX7-180B Star Rocket ZK-WAT2 which was imported from the US and registered in June this year.Also...
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It Had to be Done!
When Marty Cantlon flew his beautiful Classic Aircraft WACO YMF ZK-YMF at Tauranga recently it certainly took the spotlight. But with the equally beautiful NuWACO T 10 Taperwing ZK-WTW also in Marty's...
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