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Sunday at Ardmore
Magnaman got off a few shots today (Sunday 26-11-2017) at Ardmore. Cessna 172E ZK-FNT (c/n 51399) was a product of 1964 and passed quickly through the Malaysian register for delivery to Hong Kong in...
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Dargaville Aero Club for Lunch Yesterday 25-11-2017
I was fortunate to catch a ride up North with The Hairy Mole Rat so of course we headed to Dargaville for lunch. It was a light wind day under "anticyclonic gloom" but the visibility was OK so we...
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Gyrocopter Flight in ZK-MGI at Dargaville 25-11-2017
As I have previously posted, there were two new Magni M24 Orion gyrocopters at Dargaville last Saturday for lunch. John Wiessing mentioned he was going to fly a few circuits in his and would I like...
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Giant Scale Models at Dargaville 25-11-2017
Some of our sport aircraft are quite small (think Spacek Minisport with a wingspan of under 20 feet), and then coming up the other way are giant scale radio controlled models with wingspans of over 10...
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Whangarei 26-11-2017
After a long lunch at Dargaville we drove over to Whangarei. The Whangarei Flying Club was very welcoming with coffee and biscuits and laid back discussion about aircraft and flying. It is a great...
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Northland
Continuing our travels around Northland a visit to Kaitaia Airport revealed the Kaitaia Aero Club's Cessna A150L ZK-BAD back from an early morning training flight, this hasnt appeared on this Blog...
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A Bit of a Repaint for Mooney ZK-CKF
I last photo'd Don McMillan's Mooney M 20C Mk21 ZK-CKF at Dargaville on 16/4/16 and Blue Bus did a very thorough post on it on 23/4/16. You can find his post HEREAs seen at Whangarei last Sunday...
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Black Clouds for Sunair
As well chronicled on our sister blog 3rd Level New Zealand, Sunair Aviation Ltd of Tauranga have been grounded since 8 September. You can read about it HERE A sad result of this can be seen at the...
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Ag Aircraft at Dargaville 25-11-2017
Later in the afternoon last Saturday at Dargaville a turbine Fletcher appeared downwind. I thought it would be ZK-JLU which had been the resident Fletcher when I was last there.Actually it turned out...
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Gyrocopter Invasion
A flotilla of 6 Gyrocopters from Tauranga visited Pauanui today for lunch enjoying the great summer weather on the Coromandel.These comprised 3 Autogyro MT03's, ZK-MOR, ZK-RJW and ZK-TCG ; a Magni...
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Pauanui
As well as the Gyrocopters covered in the previous Blog the airfield at Pauanui had a steady stream of visitors over the weekend, the star being the recently restored Rutan VariEze ZK-NCD making its...
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Westport pickings.
Bluebus is on the prowl and popped into Westport Airfield yesterday afternoon (03-12-2017)At the terminal building was the Pilatus PC-12/45 ZK-PLV (c/n 400). This was the 300th PC-12 built and was...
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A couple from Lord Nelson at Nelson.
Lord Nelson captured these two at Nelson on December the 6th.Robinson R44 Raven II ZK-HCO3 (c/n 10242) which was taken up by Reid Helicopters Nelson Ltd on 15-05-2017.Previously mentioned Here....
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Sea Hawk at Kaipara Flats
Our one and only Aero Gare Sea Hawk ZK-SEA (c/n AACA/175/2 or is it 192 as per the CAA website?) has been inactive in the back of a hangar at Kaipara Flats for some time.It has been owned by K J Mills...
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Karamea
The 'Bluebus' trundled up to Karamea from Westport on the 6th. At an unfortunate delay along the way we found the MBB BK117 B-2 ZK-HGU (c/n 7229) going about it business on the highway.Below it is...
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Northland Microlight Club BBQ at Kaipara Flats Today 9-12-2017
As we are now resident at Warkworth I was very pleased to drive the 10 minutes out to Kaipara Flats airfield where the Northland Microlight Club was holding a pre-Christmas BBQ hosted by Tim Harrison...
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Pauanui
A hot dry week at Pauanui brought a stream of interesting visitors to Pauanui including a number of aircraft from the Hamilton based L3 training fleet, below is Diamond DA20 ZK-CSA.Visiting on Sunday...
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Departures from Kaipara Flats 9-12-2017
After a leisurely BBQ lunch, most of the visiting aircraft headed off home,except for the 2 gyros which flew to Dargaville as Father Christmas was arriving there.Rusty Russell and Penny in MT 03 Eagle...
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Diamond Twin Star ZK-EAN
A "new" twin has joined the Ardmore Flying School flightline in the form of Diamond DA42 Twin Star ZK-EAN4. This example has lived at Ardmore since importation in May 2015 when it arrived as N422DK and...
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Pauanui
A couple of interesting Monday visitors to Pauanui comprised the latest Ardmore Flying School diesel Cessna 172R conversion ZK-LAT, the photo showing to good effect its new 3 bladed propAnd visiting...
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