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Nelson Lakes Gliding Club
The Nelson Lakes Gliding Club operate from Lake Station airstrip near St Arnaud and they were busy last Sunday winch launching both Club and privately owned gliders.The Club's gliders include ZK-GAJ2...
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Two New Guimbal Cabri G2's flying.
Two Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopters have recently been assembled at Christchurch Helicopters 2001 Ltd's facility at Christchurch International Airport.Both arrived from France in the same container with...
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Cessna 185A ZK-DXG
The importation of Cessna 180/185's into NZ continues at a slow but steady rate.One of the more recent additions to our register is the Cessna 185A Skywagon ZK-DXG2 c/n 1850503 as listed to Skywagons...
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ZK-HLH (4)
A medevac flight into Pauanui today was operated by the Auckland based AW169 ZK-HLH4 rather than the usual Hamilton or Tauranga Hospital based BK117s. HLH was imported new back in 2018.
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I Remember When - A Pair of Hovey Delta Hawks at Feilding
When I was living in Feilding in the 1980s I remember catching up with Jim Fordyce at the local Manawatu chapter meetings of the AACA. Jim was an experienced homebuilder who had built and flown his...
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Classic Fighters 2021 CANCELLED
Late yesterday afternoon the Classic Fighters Airshow trustees held a Zoom meeting and confirmed that they had no choice but to shut the event down due to the ongoing Covid 19 uncertainty going...
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Website: www.classicfighters.co.nz21 August 2021Yealands Classic Fighters 2021 CancelledCurrent Covid-19 environment incompatible with large scale eventsBlenheim, NZ: It is with great regret that we...
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I Remember When...
When airshows could go ahead as planned (and in great weather as a bonus). A case in point was the Wings Over Wairarapa airshow held at Hood aerodrome (in happier days for these 2 aircraft), on 17 and...
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I Also Remember When
When Wellington Airport was opened on 25 October 1959. I was 11 at the time and the new airport had been built in front of my eyes as we lived in Melrose looking over Lyall Bay. What a great time for...
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MD Helicopters MD 902 ZK-IOT Exported
Noted as cancelled from the CAA register on 25/8/21 was Rotor Force NZ Ltd's MD 902 NOTAR helicopter ZK-IOT (c/n 900-00120). This has not been posted on the blog previously so I thought I would track...
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Tecnam P 92s of New Zealand (1) - Early Models
The Tecnam P 92 series of aircraft first appeared in 1993 when the first aircraft appeared with Rotax 912 engines. The P 92 was designed by Luigi Pascale and built by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam...
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Covid level four Nelson park ups.
Bill Mannix has provided us with two shot of the Nelson Airport terminal area showing the aircraft parked up during the Covid 19 lock down level 4.The upper photo was taken on 19-04-2020 during the...
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Tecnam P 92s of New Zealand - P 92S Echo Models
The next few Tecnam P 92s to be registered were three P 92S Echo models. This model had a remodelled fuselage with extra cabin windows and a smoother top fuselage line. This was an early version of...
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Auster ZK-BCK
The Auster J5F Aiglet Trainer with the constructor number 3106 was built in the UK in June of 1953 and imported into New Zealand by the Bristol Aeroplane Co (NZ) Ltd of Wellington and gained it...
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Tecnam P 92s of New Zealand (3) - 2000 RG Models
The next P 92 model to appear was the retractable gear P 92 2000 RG which had a redesigned fuselage to house the retractable gear and shorter wings to better cope with the higher speeds. The wings...
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