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A sunny Sabbath sojourn.
Half time score - Cubs three and Beech's two. The Canterbury Aero Club had their Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub ZK-BNL (c/n 18-5152) on site today for the Club competitions. Basking outside its hangar was...
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Rangiora - busy as !
Rangiora - Sunday the 23rd of August 2015. Jodel D.18 ZK-EDR2 (c/n 301.4) is just back from a sortie with Rex Woods and px. Ex RNZAF NZ Aerospace CT/4B Airtrainer NZ1938 (c/n 086) is now ZK-JMF with...
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"On Ice"
Parked up at the Antarctic Apron at Christchurch International is the Airbus A319 ACJ VH-VHD (c/n 1999) "Snowbird". Registered to C.I.T Leasing Corporation of New York it is operated by Skytraders Pty...
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ZK-HBS today.
Poppy Tuck was in at Heli Maintenance at Christchurch today with her Glacier Country Helicopters Kawasaki-Hughes 369HS ZK-HBS3 (c/n 6622).It has been covered before a couple of times. Just enter HBS in...
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Rangitata Island 27-08-2015
Being such a lovely day today I decided to drop into Rangitata Island on spec.(NZRI on 119.5 and call Russell Brodie on 0272760914 to get the OK to drop in) The nice old De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth...
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Ashburton and Timaru on 27-08-2015
Continuing my sunny sojourn.Ela Aviacion ELA 07S ZK-CEJ2 (c/n 09061140274) was registered to Richard Fitzpatrick on 21-05-2015 and is ex G-CEJH.Check out the earlier post at :-...
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Ardmore this day.
Today we get three more pics from Magnaman taken at Ardmore.Above is the Boeing A75N1 Stearman ZK-PJS (c/n 75-4245) "Yellow 18" from the Stearman 18 Partnership.It still wears its small US registration...
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Sunny Sunday
Last Sunday (23 August) the opportunity presented itself for a short visit to Ardmore in the late afternoon. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of aircraft out and about making the most of the...
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Spitfire pending.
Spitfire Square - Memorial Avenue - Christchurch - Mount for Spitfire TE288 awaits.
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Fridays Rangiora Trio.
A quick walk around at Rangiora on Friday whilst on my way north for the weekend found these three aircraft.ZK-CUH is c/n 28-24512 was listed to Airwork (NZ Ltd at Christchurch on 27-05-1968 and first...
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NZ6001/NZ6010.
Continuing on from Question time # 180.I have found the misplaced photographs of the RNZAF Beaver Above and below we see NZ6001 on the training course at Mount Cook in 1957.Main wheels with retractable...
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Henry has sent in the following link to the incident involving the Piper PA-28 Arrow ZK-RTE.There is not much dialogue until about .55 seconds into the clip !Published on Aug 30, 20155 miles off the...
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737-319 ZK-NGJ.
Parked up and still fully dressed in its ANZ scheme at the ANZES hangar at Christchurch is the Boeing 737-319 ZK-NGJ (c/n 25609)Its final revenue earning flight was from Auckland to Christchurch on...
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Cessna 180H ZK-PKD
Cessna 180H c/n 51548 was allocated the US registration of N2748X but this re-allocated VH-PKD whilst on the production line at Cessna and was listed to Rex Aviation at Bankstown on 26-10-1965.Below...
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Three from NZRT this day 04-09-2015.
Gary Hood's faithful olde Cessna 180A ZK-BUF (c/n 32935) was in for some routine maintenance.Did you know it was used for target towing experiments in January of 1961 and has also done North Cape to...
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Down at Herbert 05-09-2015
A quick visit into Central South Island Helicopters Ltd at Herbert on Saturday found three of their machines on site.MD NOTAR ZK-HDN2 (c/n LN080) was an Oceania Helicopters import in July of 2004 and...
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Meanwhile at Ardmore on Saturday.
Meanwhile Magnaman was checking out Ardmore and found these two items if great interest. The Piper PA-31-325 Navajo VH-OOI (c/n 31-7912032) is seen above at Ardmore.This arrived into Timaru from...
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One Last Time
Today was the last scheduled 737 flight into Wellington, unless ANZ keep NGI flying a little longer. It is due to start a fare well tour for staff on the 8th and ending in Christchurch on the 21st as...
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ZK-AEG
A shot from the Misc Bin. Source unknown.This air to air shot of De Havilland DH86 ZK-AEG (c/n 2331) was one of a series taken for Union Airways on probably the inaugural service on 15-01-1935 into...
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