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A couple of Cessnas
Present at the Norfolk Rd airstrip in Taranaki on Saturday was 1954 Cessna 180 ZK-BFT of Meringa Farms, Taumaranui. This has had a busy life since its original registration as BFT becoming ZK-CZW...
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Pauanui
This week has brought a few visitors to Pauanui not noted here before including the Paraparaumu based Piper PA18 Super Cub ZK-BQYAlso from the Wellington area was the very smart Grumman American AA5...
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Top of the SouthIt may not be Ardmore, but sometimes there is something of interest in the Nelson/Tasman area.Added to the local rotary wing inventory back on 9 February was Eurocopter AS 350B3 ZK-HHK,...
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Two from Christchurch Friday the 23rd.
I had just a very brief pie run today.At Christchurch International I picked up these two tidy looking machines. Above is the Mount Cook Airlines ATR-GIE ATR72-212A ZK-MCP (c/n 630).This ATR has been...
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Antarctic Apron Friday 23rd.
A reasonable gathering on Friday the 23rd February on the Antarctic apron at Christchurch International Airport.In the above view we have three Lockheed LC130's a C17 Globemaster with a QANTAS tin...
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Pauanui
A stunning Coromandel Saturday brought a variety of visitors to the Pauanui airfield including Cessna T210N Centurion II ZK-ETPAlso from the Auckland area the Aeroandina MXP 150 ZK-RTZFrom North Shore...
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Warbirds at Dargaville Today 24-2-2018
The Dargaville Aero Club held their postponed flyin today, welcoming gyrocopters and trikes, of which there were plenty and more of later.However, I was more taken by the warbirds on display:North...
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Dargaville Warbirds Postscript
OK, I have to own up. Two of the warbirds from my last post were models. But really good giant scale models. Here are a couple of other photos of them:The modellers were from the Base Auckland Model...
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Masterton aerobatics gathering at NZMS.
Our roving reporter Geoff Lloyd called in on Masterton late yesterday afternoon and snapped these pics of aircraft involved with the aerobatic champs being held there this weekend. Up from Rangitata...
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Gyrocopters at Dargaville 24-2-2018
The Dargaville Aero Club had invited gyrocopter pilots to their open day flyin with an offer of a free lunch. I don't know if that was solely the reason but 10 gyros were on the field, plus one more...
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Trikes at Dargaville 24-2-2018
As well as the gyro pilots at the Dargaville Aero Club flyin, three intrepid trike pilots flew over from Whangarei and also scored a free lunch:Herman Ahrens arrived in his Airborne Windsports Edge X...
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Sport Aircraft at Dargaville 24-2-2018 - Including Old and New Tecnams
As well as gyrocopters and trikes, a few interesting sport aircraft attended the Dargaville Aero Club's flyin and open day last Saturday.Seldom seen (by me at least) is the short wing Zenith Zodiac CH...
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Cobra Arow ZK-RMJ Status
In April last year I ran a post on the Cobra Arrow ZK-RMJ.See HERE.One of our blog readers is interested in more details of this aircraftCan anybody please advise the current status of the aircraft ?Is...
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Auckland International 18-2-2018
There were several P&W PT6 powered aircraft at Auckland International when I flew down to Wellington on 18 Feb:Barrier Air's new Cessna Grand Caravan ZK-SDC (c/n 208B2057) has not been posted on...
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Passing through Rangiora on Tuesday.
I captured these four aircraft refueling at Rangiora early afternoon Tuesday.The first three heading for the Weekends event at Timaru. The AESL Airtourer 115 ZK-CWA is c/n 506.It has been mentioned...
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Wellington on 21-2-2018
After the passage of ex tropical storm Gita over Wellington last Wdenesday the weather fined up in the afternoon, so I went down to the Aero Club to see what I could see:Maule M 9-235 ZK-VRF (c/n...
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Air New Zealand at Wellington
While I was at Wellington last week I took the opportunity to photograph a selection of Air New Zealand planes coming and going. It is a repeating process and if you wait around long enough you can...
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Sounds Air's PC 12 ZK-PLZ at Wellington 23-2-2018
I was very pleased to see Sounds Air's executive Pilatus PC 12 ZK-PLZ at Wellington when I was there recently as it was the first time I had seen it.ZK-PLZ back tracking along Runway 34 before taking...
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Some late February Helicopter Movements at Ardmore
Eurocopter EC135 P2+ ZK-ICM msn 632 of Helicopters Queenstown Ltd seen outside Airbus Helicopters on 22-2-18 Eurocopter AS350 B2 ZK-HWG msn 2816 of Nokomai Helicopters Ltd, RD 3 Lumsden at Ardmore on...
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Mooney M20G ZK-FYD at North Shore 3-3-2018
A quick visit on my way past North Shore Airfield on a Saturday afternoon produced an unexpected surprise:Mooney M20G ZK-FYD (c/n 680009) was outside its hangar when I arrived but was later pushed back...
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