Sometime around 2013 Doug King of Lite Flight Green NZ Ltd, based at Pukekohe, became the New Zealand agent for Aeroprakt and he has been quite active in selling Foxbats with another 9 aircraft imported since that time. All of these recent imports have been the upgraded A 22LS models.
ZK-JGT2 (c/n 079) was originally registered to Lite Flight Green of Nadi, Fiji in August 2012 as DQ-LFG. It was imported into New Zealand and registered on 5/12/12 to ST Growers Ltd of Tuakau (JGT are the owners' initials). It is photo'd above at the 2013 Black Sands flyin at Raglan, on 2/11/13.
ZK-LFG (c/n 168) was registered to Lite Flight Green on 15/5/13 and was sold to the CC Aviation Group (Jon Farmer and Peter Beer) on 25/9/13. It is photo'd above at the 2013 Black Sands flyin at Raglan, on 2/11/13. Unfortunately it crashed at the Pukekohe East airstrip on 1/11/14, injuring Don King and his passenger. It was cancelled form the register on 9/12/14.
ZK-LFD (c/n 198) was registered to Lite Flight Green on 16/1/14. On 1/9/14 it was sold to Paul and Sarahanne Brown of Dannevirke. More recently it has returned North to the Auckland Flying School Ltd of Pokeno, being registered to them on 25/1/17. It is photo'd above at the 2014 SAANZ flying at Bridge Pa, Hastings, on 8/3/14 where it was doing a demonstration of glider towing.
The next FoxBaT to be registered was John Weissing's ZK-FBT2 (c/n 217) which was registered to him on 8/6/14. It is photo'd above and below at Dargaville on 17/8/16.
ZK-LFB (c/n 221) was registered to Lite Flight Green on 23/10/14 and then sold to David G McMillan of Greymouth on 12/8/15. It is photo'd above at the 2015 SAANZ flyin at Ashburton, on 7/2/15 when it was the company demonstrator.
Doug King imported a replacement Foxbat for the CC Aviation Group of Auckland to replace their earlier ZK-LFG and it was registered to the group (Jon Farmer and Peter Beer) on 6/3/15 as ZK-LFG2 (c/n 227). It is photo'd above on the Pukekohe East airstrip on 2/5/15, looking very similar to its predecessor.
ZK-CKL2 (c/n 243) was registered to Steven Williams of Auckland on 17/9/15. It is based at Dargaville where the above photo was taken on 16/4/16.
ZK-LFP (c/n 237) was registered to Lite Flight Green NZ Ltd on 3/7/15 and remains in their ownership as the company demonstrator. It is photo'd above at Pauanui on 7/1/17.
And finally for now ZK-LFK (c/n 256) was registered to Lite Flight Green on 8/3/16 and sold to Heslerton Station Ltd of Leeston on 20/4/17. It is photo'd above at the 2016 Black Sands flyin at Raglan, on 5/11/16.
I am sure that we will see more Foxbats in New Zealand in the future, and then there is the new A 32 Vixxen which is a development of the Foxbat, and of which Doug King has imported an example as a company demonstrator.
On take off showing the Foxbat's big wing.
I am sure that we will see more Foxbats in New Zealand in the future, and then there is the new A 32 Vixxen which is a development of the Foxbat, and of which Doug King has imported an example as a company demonstrator.
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