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RANS S 9 Chaos ZK-OUT at Greymouth
I have posted previously on Rans S 9s of New Zealand at http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/rans-s-9-chaoss-of-new-zealand.html In that post of our four S 9s to date I noted that Evan Grooby...
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Question Tine # 193. Piper PA-38 ZK-RPM
We have here a photograph of a Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk marked roughly as "RPM" as seen at Ardmore in November of 1995 and comes from the late Bob Kerr collection.To the best of my knowledge there has...
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RAANZ National Fly-in 2017Canterbury Recreational Aircraft ClubRangiora AirfieldFriday March 31 - Sunday 2 AprilFriday 31st MarchMeet at RangioraFree flyingBBQ Tea-$15Fly to pier and Sumner or Landing...
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Foxcon Terriers of New Zealand
The next type of sport aircraft to be registered in New Zealand was the Foxcon Terrier 200, the first of which was registered here in December 2002. It was manufactured as a kit which was built by...
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RAANZ National Fly-in 2017Canterbury Recreational Aircraft ClubRangiora AirfieldFriday March 31 - Sunday 2 AprilFriday 31st MarchMeet at RangioraFree flyingBBQ Tea-$15Fly to pier and Sumner or Landing...
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Solomon's
Maybe no direct connection to the ZK civil register but interesting anyway. Above is the Dash 8 H4-SOL (c/n 289).This was originally N418AW from 1991 followed by N835EX from March 1996, then briefly...
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Our latest Bell 429 at Ardmore this afternoon
Bell 429 ZK-HUU msn 57246 ex N544RF seen in the Oceania Aviation Ltd compound at Ardmore this afternoon. This 2014 built machine was registered here on 11-1-17 to Bell 429 Operator...
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Four from the queen City
Richard Currie was on the prowl yesterday (31-03-2017) and has offered two shots from Ardmore.The Piper PA-25-235 Cherokee ZK-CEH (28-10219) is from Dreamcraft Aviation Ltd of Whangarei although...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - A Few from the Hangars
The RAANZ flyin was held at Rangiora from Friday 31 March to Sunday 2 April, and good weather pretty much across New Zealand produced a good attendance. However for my first post I thought I would...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - Stratford Flyers
A contingent of 4 aircraft from Stratford flew down to the flyin on Friday afternoon led by Wayne Richmond. Here they are preparing to leave Rangiora on the Saturday for a flyout to Ivan Campbell's...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - a Trio from Feilding
There was a contingent of Feilding flyers at the RAANZ flyin with 3 aircraft:The Manawatu Microlight Club's Sky Arrow 480T ZK-SKO (c/n 136) taxies out for the fly away to Forest Field.Followed by the...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - Savannahs
The ICP Savannah is increasing in popularity with 12 aircraft registered and more being built. Four of them were at Rangiora:Evan Belworthy called in in ZK-BIC2on Friday afternoon returning the...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - Zenair CH 701s
Rangiora is home to several Zenair CH 701s with very large tyres:Stewart Bufton's ZK-LSB.The reason for the large tyres is for landing on riverbeds.Alex Mason's ZK-AMC2.Buzz Harvey's ZK-ZUB.and Chris...
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RAANZ Flyin at Rangiora - Loburn Flyout
On Saturday 1 April the RAANZ flyin at Rangiora featured a flyout to Forest Field for lunch, then later some of the aircraft flew on to Ivan Campbell's Loburn Abbey airfield. A couple of other...
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Three from Ardmore on 7-4-17
Bristol B170 Freighter Mk31 ZK-EPG msn 13135 had it's wings removed sometime between 7 am and 1.30 pm on 7-4-17 as part of preparing the aircraft for shipping to the UKBell 412 ZK-HRX msn 36008 all...
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NZRT RAANZ Arrivals.
Here we have a selection of arrival shots taken at the RAANZ fly-in last weekend at Rangiora. Bill Hopcroft's Tecnam P92 Eaglet U/L ZK-DDE2 (c/n 1479) from Balfour over the end fence. From Mossburn...
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Ardmore today 08-04-2017
Magnaman was at Ardmore today and offers these pics. Out in the sunshine was the Percival P.28B Proctor 1 ZK-DPP2 (c/n K.305) of Guy Clapshaw.It was reconstructed at Mandeville to Vega Gull format with...
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Pauanui Saturday
A fine Saturday brought a variety of visitors to Pauanui, including 3 Yak 52s (ZK-PTE, YAK & XXS) to add to the local population. Other visitors included :A regular Pauanui visitor as ZK-MDH this...
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The Friday pie run to NZRT
This photograph is posted with the express permission of the ZK-ADM Syndicate members. The Yakovlev Yak-52 ZK-ADM2 (c/n 833601) has had its first engine run and the black and white cowl has been...
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Cessna 120 ZK-XTX.
On the 30th of March I spotted Kevin Langford's lovely little Cessna 120 ZK-XTX (c/n 11759) at the entrance to its hangar at Christchurch. Today 08-04-2017 it visited Timaru for about thirty minutes...
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