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Jodels at Dargaville 5-5-2018
As a bit of a Jodel fan, I was delighted to see two of the local D 11s turn up at Dargaville on Saturday for the lunch and the Aero Club competitions.Jodel D 11s ZK-SUE and ZK-DJQ were both constructed...
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Kev's new hangar at NZRT.
Parked up in Kevin Dore's new hangar at Rangiora for the first time is his Alpi Aviation Pioneer 200 Hawk ZK-KPD (c/n 249-09).
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Pauanui
An interesting visitor the airfield today was PAC 750 ZK-KDI which is shortly due for delivery to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.The only other 750 visitor that has been noted here was ZK-KDN in...
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Pauanui 10 May
A great flying day on the Coromandel brought a number of visitors to the Pauanui airfield including Cessna 206H StationAir ZK-MHL from Tauranga, which hasnt been noted here before.
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An early NZRT pie run.
School class is in. The subject is 'Introduction to Aviation for kids'. As carried out very successfully by Des Lines and his helpers.The item being studied by this class is the Tiger Moth ZK-BCO at...
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Question time # 201
I have been chastised for the lack of a 'Question Time' since early this year.The reason is simple - I thought it about time that Mit had a break from eating my chocolate fish.OK !What is this then...
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Nanchang ZK-FRU at North Shore 10-5-2018
It was pretty quiet at North Shore airfield when I called in on my way past yesterday.Except for the locally based Nanchang CJ-1 ZK-FRU2 that was fuelled up and took off.As I have mentioned previously,...
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Southern items.
Wiltshire Spotter recently toured our Country and has placed a selection of photographs on his Flicker album.Below are just four shots from this site. De Havilland DHC-1A2 Chipmunk ZK-DHC2 (c/n 42) is...
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A Couple of New Bristell NG 5s
I was interested to see that a couple of new Bristell NG-5 aircraft were registered in January 2018. These are not our first Bristell aircraft as ZK-LMR has been operated by Aero Hire at Whakatane...
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Jabiru J 160 UL ZK-NJV
This Jabiru was previously ZK-BGY2 and I have posted about its history HEREIt was purchased by Greg van Der Hulst on 2/2/18 and he re-registered the aircraft as ZK-NJV on 13/2/18. Recently Greg...
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Ardmore Amphibians 14-5-2018
I wasn't really planning to go to Ardmore today but a long delay in my wife's Jetstar flight gave me 3 hours to fill in (and I had thought to take my camera).A couple of amphibians were parked up:...
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Vans at Ardmore 14-5-2018
Ardmore was pretty quiet on a grey Monday afternoon, but a couple of Vans were of interest:This was the first time I had seen RV 8 ZK-EYT2. It has recently been purchased (on 1/5/18) by Paul Carran of...
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A Couple of All Blacks at Ardmore 14-5-2018
When I was at Ardmore on Monday I spotted a couple of All Blacks...They were Cessna 152 ZK-JFY and Piper Cherokee 140 ZK-DNE. I think they must have been wingers because there was one high winger and...
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Question time # 201 update
Well kids - we haven't had much luck with this Question Time have we !Does this mean that I get to eat the chocky fish myself ?He is another clue for you to ponder....
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Placed onto the ZK Register today 16-5-18
Out test flying this afternoon at Ardmore despite the showers was MBB BK117 B-2 ZK-HIQ msn 7009 which was registered to Airwork NZ Ltd today. It is ex D-HBKK
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Question Time # 201 resolved.
Chocolate fish all round.We are near enough to the correct answer for the main item thanks to Anonymous.It is a Lake LA-250 Renegade.This example is indeed the Australian registered example currently...
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Ardmore helicopters on Monday.
A rather belated post, on my part, of two images provided by Keith Morris of his visit to Ardmore on Monday the 14th.Below is the MBB MBB-BKK117 B-2 as seen on Monday.It was registered as ZK-HIQ4 (c/n...
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ATR ZK-MCF
Still cluttering up the hard stand at Christchurch International Airport today was the Aerospatiale-Alenia ATR72-212A ZK-MCF2 (c/n 600).See more on this airframe HERE
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Rangiora arrivals this day 17-05-2018
Two items of interest interfered with my potato top pie scoffing at lunch time today at Rangiora.Above is the locally based Avid Heavy Hauler UL ZK-OST (c/n 1543-E) which has been in the care of Max...
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