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Piper PA28R-200 ZK-RTE
A recent visitor to Pauanui from North Shore was the Piper PA28R-200 Cherokee Arrow ZK-RTE sporting a smart new paint scheme. Originally built in 1970 it was imported from Canada and has been with...
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Southern Helicopters
Fiordland Lodge situated on the Milford Highway is also the base for Fiordland Helicopters and outside there this morning was their AS350B2 ZK-HUC4. This has been with the company since 2017 and was...
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Harmon Rocket ZK-RMD/2 at Te Kowhai on 4-8-2022
I had cause to do a road trip from Warkworth to Wellington last week, and I called into a few airfields along the way. Most were pretty quiet but there was an interesting arrival at Te Kowhai while I...
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Milford Sound
A stunning day at Milford Sound today saw virtually the entire fleet of tourist aircraft from Queenstown and Wanaka arrive at Milford Sound with over 20 aircraft present, and some 7 helicopters.Amongst...
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Grumman Ag Cat ZK-MEX and ZK-RTA.
Back in late 1987 four Grumman G164 Ag Cats in various conditions were imported from Australia.To the best of my knowledge these were VH-JBB c/n 738, VH-PUV2 c/n 441, VH-CCO c/n 432 and VH-CCS c/n 530....
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Zenith CH 750 ZK-FLN/2 at Feilding on 5-8-2022
Carrying on with my road trip to Wellington under a clear blue sky I drove past the snow covered Central Plateau mountains which provided spectacular views. Later in the afternoon I called in to...
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HeliWorks / Heli Glenorchy
Action Helicopters of Queenstown has been busy of late adding more AS350 Squirrels to the fleets of HeliWorks and Heli Glenorchy.These include AS350B3 ZK-IGY2 which was imported from Norway this...
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N747NA SOFIA departs.
The NASA Boeing 747SP-21 N747NA c/n 2144 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy "SOFIA""Clipper Lindbergh" was captured departing Christchurch International yesterday (11-08-2022) for...
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Fiji Airways Boeing 737 Max 8 at Wellington on 7-8-2022
The weather in Wellington was "adventurous" during my tome there, ranging from gale force Northerlies with rain to gale force Southerlies with rain. However there was a brief interlude of nice weather...
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Strikemaster NZ6372/ZK-BAC/2 at Wellington on 7-8-2022
In a bit of exquisite timing I drove back from Moa Point and saw that the locally based BAC Strikemaster was outside the Wellington Aero Club hangar:BAC 167 Strikemaster Mk 88 NZ9372/ZK-BAC2 has been...
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Sunrise Balloon Adventures
Leaving Queenstown early this morning we were rewarded by seeing the launching of 2 Sunshine Balloon Adventures balloons near Arrowtown.These were the Kavanagh E-260 ZK-FBK3, which was imported new for...
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Wanaka
Noted at Wanaka Airport was the locally based Arrow Copter AC20 ZK-RBV which was imported from the USA back in 2016.Visiting from Taieri was Otago Airspread's Piper PA28-181 Archer II ZK-FWS which has...
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Masterton Today 14-8-2022
On a fabulous blue sky winters day Jordan Elvy popped over to Masterton today and found lots of aviation activity. Here is a selection of some of the sport aircraft that were out aviating:There hasn't...
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Piper PA46 Malibu Meridian ZK-THG
The Piper PA46-500TP Malibu Meridian is a Pratt & Whitney PT6A turbo prop version of the piston engine powered PA-46-350P Malibu / Malibu Mirage C/n 4697215 was listed to Piper Aircraft Inc of Vero...
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More from Wanaka
Another visit to Wanaka Airport offered a lot of activity including the skydiving Cessna 208B Caravan ZK-ROK4 which as had its "Wanaka" titling restored. This was imported in 2016 from the US as...
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Day 3 at Wanaka
Another stunning winter day in Wanaka produced more activity at the Airport including AS350B2 ZK-HVC4 which has not been blogged before. Originally imported new in 2012 as ZK-IVW it was reregistered...
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Christchurch Heli Centre 15 th August 2022
A quick stop over at the Christchurch Heli Centre on Monday found the following.Robinson R44 Astro ZK-HAR c/n 0735 was imported for Button Logging Ltd in mid-2011 until being taken up by Christchurch...
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Rans S6S ZK-CDC
A surprise at Cromwell airfield today was the Rans S6S ZK-CDC2 which is now on amphibious floats. This has been with the same Queenstown owners since 2011.
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ATR 72-212 ZK-MCU at NZAA on 9-8-2022
A desperation shot of Air Chathams'"new" ATR 72-212 ZK-MCU parked out with an eclectic mix of other Air Chathams aircraft at Auckland International last week:ZK-MCU was registered to Air Chathams of...
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A DH 100 Vampire at North Shore
I have been aware of John Scott's Vampire that he has been assembling at North Shore over the last several years, but I have not had the opportunity to photograph it completed until I spied its hangar...
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