Sunday 16 January 2011

More News from Central Otago

A new helicopter operator has started out of Queenstown under the name of Helitours Ltd using AS350 Squirrel ZK-HQNhttp://www.helitours.co.nz/

The start-up of Helitours has dovetailed in with the demise of Alpine Chopper's who have gone into receivership during the latter part of 2010, perhaps as a result of the South Canterbury Finance mess.  This would explain the presence of Alpine Chopper's Eurocopter AS350 ZK-ITG being resident in the Oceania hanger at Ardmore.

As ZK-HGF, the Helitours machine flew south in late September and underwent a repaint and registration change to ZK-HQN at Alexandra.

ZK-HQN at Queenstown 6/1/11, Wayne Grant photo
 
ZK-HQN in its previous guise as ZK-HGF at Ardmore 14/9/10, Mike Condon photo


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