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ZK-IWN in NZCH
Seen at the Garden City Helicopters facility at Christchurch International today was the Eurocopter EC 130 B4 ZK-IWN (c/n 4556) of Garden City Helicopters Ltd. This is normally Wellington based and...
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ZK-IWN at Wellington
Following on from Blue Bus's post here is ZK-IWN at its base on Queens Wharf in Wellington on 15/2/16.
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Bryan Langley Memorial Aerobatics Competition Results for 2016
I was up at North Shore yesterday and was given the results of the Bryan Langley Memorial Aerobatic Competitions that were held a week ago, last Saturday. I posted about the competition at...
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Helicopter Review
During the last couple of weeks I've taken the opportunity to enjoy the autumn sunshine and caught up with the following around the traps:Agusta A109 Grand ZK-HBH arrives at Ardmore.Operated by...
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Fixed Wing Review
Following on from yesterday's post the pleasant autumn weather created opportunities to check out the local scene around Auckland and here a few of those snapped. Cessna 182T ZK-CDR has been on the...
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King Air 200 ZK-MDC
New Zealand's Beech King Air population has climbed to 16 aircraft with the recent arrival of 200 series ZK-MDC and 300 series VH-WCN.ZK-MDC arrived in Auckland 11 April 2016 as N595BC having crossed...
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King Air B 200 ZK-MDC at Dargaville Today
Following Mike Condon's post on Air Wanganui Commuter's new Beech King Air B 200, it was at Dargaville today on a medical transport flight to Dunedin operating for Air Ambulance New Zealand (see:...
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Bearhawk ZK-FHR
Registered to LJ Fellman of South Head Road, Helensville in November 2015 is the R&B Bearhawk ZK-FHR becoming the second of its type after the arrival of ZK-NJB in the spring of...
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Australian Lightwings of New Zealand
After the summer busyness, it is time to return to our history of homebuilt and sport aircraft of New Zealand, re-starting with the first new aircraft type to be registered in the 2000s.The Australian...
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Article 9
A lunchtime visit to wellington today provided some different aircraft. I also got to meet greybeard!Diamond DA42, ZK-CTL from CTC Aviation training in HamiltonJetstar's De Havilland Canada DHC-8-315Q...
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Police Eye in the Sky
When the Police helicopter circles overhead for two days in a row, you wonder what they are looking for!
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Cruising the Coast. Hokitika
The Zenair STOL CH750 ZK-EAS2 (c/n 75-8075) as seen at Hokitika is recovering nicely from an incident on the Taramakau River bed back on 08-04-2014.She got a mention earlier at...
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Cruising the Coast. Greymouth
Garden City Helicopters Ltd operate this Aerospatiale AS 350BA ZK-HGH2 (c/n 1443) as the Rescue Helicopter based at Greymouth - seen here trying to evade the camera.Parked outside the helicopter...
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Million dollar mouse.
Soon to take place is the Million Dollar Mouse Project which is the eradication of mice from the Antipodes Islands Two helicopters will be supplied for the baiting operation. One from Amuri Helicopters...
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Concorde
This photo was forwarded to me by Allan Bowman and shows the Concorde F-BVFF in NZ.As far as I know this aircraft visited NZ on five occasions:-13/16-09-1994 Christchurch.08/11-10-1994 Christchurch....
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Misc pics catch up.
Gulfstream GV SP N250DV (c/n 5066) seen here at Queenstown back on 24-03-2016 by Terry Fletcher. Listed on the FAA files with RDV Leasing LLC out of Grand Rapids of Michigan USA it began life as N966GA...
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Provost ZK-JOT at North Shore Today 14-5-2016
Percival Provost T Mk1 ZK-JOT ( marked as WV666) is being worked on at North Shore to bring it back to airworthiness and engine runs have been carried out. It was first registered here on 17/4/03 and...
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The Great Aussie Flying Adventure
David Wilkinson was up at North Shore yesterday, checking over and test running the engine in his RV 8 ZK-WLK.I have posted lots of photos of this nice looking aircraft on the blog, but yesterday...
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Cessna 172 ZK-MED
Sir Minty took this pic of the Cessna 172R Skyhawk ZK-MED2 (c/n 80093) at North Shore yesterday (14-05-2016). This began its NZ career as ZK-OUI followed by some time as ZK-JZM.Recently purchased by...
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Homegrown Two Seat (and +) Homebuilt Aircraft of New Zealand (4) - Belworthy MOA
Evan Belworthy registered his MOA (according to Evan it stands for "My Own Aircraft") as ZK-MQA (c/n BEL 6) on 11/5/00. It is his design for a four seat aircraft to take all the family on trips but...
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