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Pauanui
In amongst the weather events of late a trickle of visitors came through Pauanui including Hughes 369D ZK-HRI from Te Kuiti based Rotor Work Down from Ardmore the Agusta Bell 206B ZK-IBB now wearing...
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Tauranga
A visit to Tauranga on a sunny day always seems to produce aircraft of interest and included amongst today's were 3 that havent appeared on this blog before.Firstly locally based Aviation Training's...
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Pauanui
Down from Auckland last evening was the latest addition to the Auckland Resue helicopter fleet, BK117B-2 ZK-HES, engaged in rescuing 2 snorkellers stranded on rocks in the wind and the rain.Over from...
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An Aviation historians pending headache.
In years to come photographs like these will cause aviation historians something of a headache.The top two were taken at Timaru Airport on March 1st at the New Zealand National Flying...
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Pick of the weeks pics
I caught the Cessna 172S ZK-TZR2 (c/n 172S8673) at Ashburton on Thursday the 15th.This 172 was built as N741SP by Cessna in the second half of 2000 and joined Triangle Aviation Service Inc of Leesburg...
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ZK-HTV
Christchurch Helicopters 2001 Ltd's Eurocopter EC 120 B ZK-HTV3 (c/n 1041) was captured this afternoon whilst it hopped between pads at their facility at Christchurch International Airport.It entered...
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ZK-HBC
Not featured before under this registration is Eurocopter EC120B ZK-HBC, which was acquired by North Shore Helicopters in October 2017, and is seen at Ardmore today. Imported in 2008 and initially...
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Mt Cook
The Inflite helicopter operation were busy today at Mt Cook Airport with their 2 Euroocopter AS350B2 ZK-HBT and ZK-HOI, while a 3rd fleet member, ZK-HGQ, remained hangared.Heliworks were operating...
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ZK-HWD
Noted among the recent cancellations was the Hughes 369HS ZK-HWD3. (c/n 64-0606S).This c/n indicates that it was built in June of 1964 but the first registration I can find for it is P2-PHL from...
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Some changes at Ardmore 8-3-18 to 25-3-18
Eurocopter AS350 B2 ZK-HCW msn 4805 of Advanced Flight Ltd of Onehunga seen at Ardmore on 8-3-18. Ex VH-KEB it became ZK-HCW on 10-1-18Eurocopter AS350 B2 ZK-HOP msn 4857 of Ardmore based Helisika...
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Queenstown
Some of the additions in the last year to the local tourist flight operators fleets were evident on a visit to Queenstown Airport today.Two Eurocopter AS350B2 added to The Helicopter Line fleet were...
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Passing through Ashburton today.
Passing through Ashburton today - Wanaka bound - were two Harvards from up north.Out to greet them was the locally based North American NA88 Harvard ZK-ENE (c/n 88-14672) [ex NZ1066] as listed with BDH...
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With an hour to kill.
With an hour to kill between other mission this afternoon (Tuesday 27th) I zotted around to the Christchurch International Airports western boundary fence and tried to gain some enthusiasm towards some...
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Wanaka Helicopters
Wanaka today was a hive of activity with preparations for the Easter Warbirds airshow but amongst all this some helicopters not previously blogged were noted.At the top is Alpine Helicopters'...
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Queenstown
Further to the blog below of new additions to the Queenstown based tourist fleets, another added to the True South fleet was spotted today being PA32R-300 ZK-SLP which was imported from Australia in...
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Pauanui
A very interesting visitor to Pauanui today was the smart vintage Stinson 108-3 ZK-NCC up from New PlymouthFrom Action Aviation Rotorua came Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP ZK-CBM which was imported from...
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Pauanui
A fine Easter weekend in the Coromandel continued the influx of visitors to the Pauanui airfield including up from Gisborne the smart Mooney 20C ZK-CPPFrom the Gordonton Microlight Club came Bantam...
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Wanaka
Four shots from the Warbird Over Wanaka 30th Anniversary Airshow. The Consolidated Vultee PBY-5ACatalina ZK-PBY (c/n CV-357) drones out on one of its many sorties during the weekend.Previous photos of...
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Wanaka # 2
Ah De HavillandTwo sets of Gipsy Queen's at work.Above the De Havilland DH89B Dominie ZK-AKY (c/n 6653) from the Croydon Aircraft Company Ltd of Mandeville.Below is the Mit Brereton De Havilland DH104...
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Wanaka # 3 The Yak 3's
In response to requests for Yak 3 photos.I make no comment on the landing incident to ZK-YYY - but there is a video clip of this in the links below. Above is Fighter Flights Ltd's Yakovlev Yak-3M...
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