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Rangiora this day.
Three strays outside the CRAC club rooms at Rangiora for lunch today.On the left we have the Zenith Zodiac CH 601-XL ZK-SSF2 c/n 6-9787 from the Stratford Aero Club (Inc).Centre is the Zenith Zodiac...
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Pauanui
Amongst the visitors to Pauanui airfield of late have been the Hastings based Cessna A185F ZK-DWW which has now reverted back to a wheeled undercarriage from its amphibious floats. This was originally...
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Dargaville Today 12-3-2022
It was a fantastic day for flying in the North today, so I flew up to Dargaville for a bring your own lunch. There were a dozen or so visiting aircraft including a couple of new ones to me:Alan Nelson...
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Alpi Pioneer 300 ZK-DMK/2 at Dargaville
Another new aircraft for me at lunch at Dargaville yesterday was Duane Keenan's Alpi Pioneer 300 ZK-DMK2:It looks very nice in its new colours including an eye catching rippling Italian flagDuane told...
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Eurocopter AS 350 BA ZK-IDK at Dargaville
As I was preparing to leave Dargaville on Saturday, one of the Helinorth spraying helicopters arrived so I took a long shot of it:It turned out to be their Eurocopter AS 350 BA ZK-IDK (c/n 1745). This...
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Helicopters in the Waikato
Tripping around the Waikato uncovered a number of helicopters that havent featured on this blog before starting with Bell 206B ZK-HLG5 which was imported by Rotor Flite NZ this year from Japan and...
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BBJ arriving CH +1
Boeing 737-75T (WL) Business Jet N883LS c/n 29142 (and line number 167 if you are interested) arrived into Christchurch from Melbourne this afternoon.This first flew on 9-12-1998 becoming N700WH on...
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Rotorua and beyond
Continuing our travels north the first stop was Rotorua where the resident Super Air Air Tractor is now the 602 model ZK-SXO. This was imported used from the US in 2021 and assembled at...
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ZK-ICS
Noted at Hastings today by Des Smith was the Guimbal Cabri G2 ZK-ICS2 c/n 1024 of Aroha Helicopters Ltd of Hastings.This Cabri was one of the first two to arrive in NZ being listed to CHL Investments...
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Masterton Tiger Moth Fly In
Aaron Murphy was at the Tiger Moth Fly In at Masterton last weekend.Here are several shots taken over that weekend.ZK-BAH c/n 83589 of John Baynes.ZK-BCZ c/n DHNZ155 of Ian Dittmer of Masterton.ZK-BEF...
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ZK-LWW
An interesting visitor to Pauanui today was the Whakatane based Cessna TR182 Skylane RG ZK-LWW. Not often seen this was originally imported new back in 1988 as ZK-TRC before briefly becoming ZK-TRO2...
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Pauanui
The variety of visitors to the Pauanui airfield continued today with the early morning visit from Tauranga of the sleek Stoddard-Hamilton SH3R Glasair III ZK-PGB. Originally registered in 2014 this...
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One highly chuffed granddad
I had the honour early yesterday to take my granddaughter out to Rangiora for her second instructional flight in the CRAC Tecnam P92 Echo Classic ZK-RGC.Here Deborah is doing the pre flight check...
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ZK-DOL 2
Visiting Pauanui today from Te Kowhai was the Vans RV12iS UL ZK-DOL2 which was only registered 2 weeks ago. So far it has flown 10.9 hours and in due course it will be painted in a blue colour scheme.
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Muttley at Maungaturoto 19-3-2022
Yesterday I travelled up to Maungaturoto with Ray Deerness to meet with Murray Hargreaves and see his "new" 400 HP Fletcher ZK-MUT:MUT is for Muttley the dogMurray's strip provides lovely backgrounds...
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ZK-EOJ arrives Christchurch
Taxying gingerly towards the Canterbury Aero Club tie downs during my lunch break today was the Cessna 152 ZK-EOJ c/n 82940.The ownership of this passed from Airborne Aviation Ltd of Hastings to the...
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A Couple of "New" Cherokees at North Shore back on 5-3-2022
A couple of weeks ago I was at North Shore airfield and photo'd two Cherokees that have recently had a change of ownership and that have not been posted on the blog previously:PA 28-161 Warrior ZK-WWW...
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A Lost LAD at North Shore Today 26-2-2022
I was passing through North Shore airfield today, where there was not much activity due to quite a strong cross wind. However there was a stray Piper Tomahawk that has not appeared on the blog...
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Chilton DW.1 ZK-CHT
John Gray's Chilton DW.1 ZK-CHT2 c/n NZDW1A/04 was first flown by Evan Belworthy from Rangiora late last week.It was out again today and was taxied around to a Sport Aircraft Association hangar...
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Tecnam P92 ZK-PFL
Visiting Pauanui yesterday was the Matamata Aero Club's Tecnam P92 Echo Super UL ZK-PFL. Now carrying the Club's titling this was originally imported new in 2011 and was acquired by the Club in mid...
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