At JEM Aviation (aka Yak Central, Southern Hemisphere) they have made great progress in returning a couple of Yaks to the air after their accidents:
NZ Civil Aircraft
A blog on New Zealand Civil Aircraft.
Friday, 18 July 2025
Yaks Coming Back!
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
ZK-WBL into Rangiora on 14-07-2025
Monday, 14 July 2025
A Couple of Replacement Tecnam P2008s for the NZ Airline Academy
A couple of ex Australian Tecnam P2008s have flown into New Zealand presumably to replace some of the NZAA P2008s lost in recent storms at Oamaru:
Friday, 11 July 2025
Two military visitors to Christchurch 10-07-2025
Sport Helicopters of NZ - American Sportscopters Addendum - ZK-HJU
Back in November 2022 I posted about our American Sportscopters and in which I noted that we did not have photos of the Ultra Helicopters examples ZK-HJI3, ZK-HJU2 and HJX3 that were only registered here for a few months in 2009/10. You can see that post HERE. Recently a photo of one of them has appeared thanks to Janic Geelen:
Here is ZK-HJU2 (c/n 2040). Not the flashest of photos and looking at the background is it even in New Zealand? maybe someone can come up with photos of ZK-HJI3 and HJX3 (and also ZK-HIY3 - we can but live in hope!).Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Homebuilt Helicopters of NZ - Mini 500Ks Addendum - ZK-HOZ and Others
Back in October 2022 I posted about our Revolution Mini 500K homebuilt helicopters of which we have had 8 registered. You can see that post HERE
In that post I noted that we did not have a photo of ZK-HOZ2. Well, now we do:
Aircraft registration. Special paint schemes etc.
Following on from the blog post on the Cessna Bird Dog ZK-LAO on the 7th of July
(see NZ Civil Aircraft: Cessna O-1A Bird Dog ZK-LAO )
And in answer to several question about registration markings :-
Check out the CAA rules on this matter on this link
https://www.aviation.govt.nz/rules/rule-part/part-47/subpart-c/#P47.104
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Christchurch today 08--07-2025.
A couple of photos from Tony McFarlin taken on the Aero Club side of Christchurch International Airport today 08-07-2025.