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Zephyr Airworks Mule ZK-UZA
Noted last month at the RNZAF Museum at Wigram was the Zephyr Airworks Mule SPA ZK-UZA c/n 002. First listed as N302XZ to Kitty Hawk Corporation of Mountain View, California from 02-08-2017.It came to...
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Zephyr Airworks Mule ZK-UZB
Following Blue Bus's post on the Zephyr Airworks Mule ZK-UZA, I realised that we had not covered its stable mate ZK-UZB in a blog post (we did feature it as a heading photo but you can't search for...
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A Trio of Venoms
As we have a great photo of John Luff's Venom ZK-VNM3as our header photo at present, I thought I would delve into why this is the third use of the registration ZK-VNM.In fact all of the ZK-VNMs have...
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Around Auckland
A wander around the airfields and heliports of Auckland today offered much of interest including at Ardmore the Vans RV3 ZK-XRD in a smart new paint scheme. This was originally imported from the USA...
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Otago into Canterbury
Noted parked up at a very windy Queenstown this morning was the latest addition to the Glenorchy Air fleet, Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX ZK-PPR. This is a brand new aircraft imported back in March....
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Aero Designs Pulsar ZK-PBP at Tauranga Today 26-5-2022
As the nice weekend High builds in, it was time for Solo Wings to push out some sport aircraft that they have been working on (actually I am not sure this is an aircraft worked on by Solo Wings):ZK-PBP...
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Tecnam P 2008 JCs ZK-TBT/2 and ZK-TCT at Tauranga 26-5-2022
The Hairy Mole Rat also caught the latest two Tecnam P 2008 JCs outside in the sun at Tauranga, and these are from Solo Wings:ZK-TBT2 (c/n 1236) was registered to the NZ Airline Academy Ltd of Oamaru...
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A couple of helicopters
Noted at Nelson today was the locally based MBB Bo105CBS-4 ZK-IAA2. Imported from the USA in 2018 for the AMH Trust this hasnt appeared on this blog before. The registration letters are...
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You really should be here.
Looking down on the gathering at Omaka late this afternoon.The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the Cessna 180.By my count there are 76 Cessna 180 and 185's in this line up.The front row are all...
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Omaka Cessna 180/185 Fly In
A selection of the attendees at the excellent NZ Cessna 180/185 Club fly-in at Omaka this weekend are as follows, starting with the A185F ZK-CDM2 which was imported from Vanuatu in 2019. Initially...
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ICP Savannah S ZK-MRJ at Waihi Beach
I had not seen a photo of this Savannah previously, after it had been built by its original Wanganui owner, but recently it has had a change of ownership and is now based at the Waihi Beach airstrip...
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Kawasaki BK117B-2 ZK-HDK (6)
Overflying Pauanui today was the BK117B-2 ZK-HDK6 which was imported by Airwork (NZ) Ltd from PNG back in 2020 and has now completed its refurbishment programme. It arrived in an orange and white...
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Qatar Emiri Air Force C 17 at Ohakea
Although it is painted in Qatar Airways livery, this Boeing C 17 Globemaster III A7-MAB is actually operated by the Qatar Emiri Air Force, and it is one of a fleet of 8, with the other 7 being painted...
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New Sling TSi ZK-SLN at Feilding
Mike Blyth of Sling Aircraft Ltd in South Africa (then called the Airplane Factory) began development of the Sling 2 kit aircraft in South Africa in 2006 and its first flight was in November 2008. A...
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Yes indeed - you should have been there. Omaka Cessna 180 70th Anniversary...
Eighty four Cessna 180/185 aircraft attended the Weekend fly-in at Omaka to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first flight of the prototype Cessna 180 N41697 c/n 604 on 26th May 1952. The...
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Convair ZK-CIB retires to Wanaka
The Air Chathams General Dynamics Allison Convair 440/580 ZK-CIB3 c/n 327A carried out its final Chatham Islands to Wellington and Auckland flight on 15-09-2021 by which time it had accumulated...
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Omaka selection.
Cessna 180 Businessliner ZK-BJX c/n 31417 from Palms on George Ltd is an ex dung duster from the mid 1950's.You wouldn't think so now by looking at it..Cessna 180's are for pussy cats.But REMOVE...
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Omaka
A quick look at four more Cessna 180's as noted at OmakaCessna 180 ZK-AMK2 c/n 32470 came from the UK with is owner Ken McKinnon and became ZK-KMK on 15-04-2008.It was sold to Matahui Airlines Ltd from...
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Omaka. All yellow
Omaka on 27 and 28th May.Three different lightings.ZK-CHL Cessna 185C c/n 185-0757 was with Central Aviation of Roxburgh for a few months before going to NZ Tourist Air Travel/Mount Cook & Southern...
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ZK-ZIM
Visiting Pauanui today was the Hamilton based Beech C23 Sundowner 180 ZK-ZIM which was reregistered from ZK-DVH only last week on 26 May.
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