A trip around Taranaki today en route SAANZ at Hawera offered a number of interesting helicopters starting with a visit to the HNZ offshore base at New Plymouth Airport where AW139 ZK-HNZ5 was just departing offshore and ZK-HNO3 had just returned. HNZ has been in NZ since 2007 while HNO was imported from Australia in 2011.
The other two HNZ offshore helicopters, AW139 ZK-IHP and 412 ZK-HDY, are currently at Dunedin on contract work.
Also at New Plymouth Airport the Precision Heliocopters Bell 206B sprayer ZK-IRC2 was receiving a washdown. This was imported from the UK in 2015
Near Eltham at the Beck Helicopters base 2 of their "Super Hueys" were present being UH-1B ZK-HHA3 (imported from Australia in 2016), and UH-1F ZK-HHF3 (imported from US in 2003).
they are ready to go fight fires at a momnets notice it said on there face book page heard hhb heading home bout half a hr ago
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