Wednesday 12 January 2022

Airvans at Wellington today

Two Gippsland GA8 Airvans were captured at Wellington today by ZKARJ.

ZK-ORC is c/n GA8-02-017 and was initially registered in Australia as VH-AAP6 before becoming ZK-SAF2 in November 2002 with Air Safaris & Services Ltd at Lake Tekapo. 
It was sold to Stark Airlines Ltd of Hamilton in November 2016 who re registered as ZK-FSS on 05-12-2016 and then sold to Glenorchy Air Services & Tourist  Co Ltd in early September 2017 and was  re registered as ZK-ORC on 19-10-2017.
 It joined the Kaikoura Aero Club (Inc) who trade under the Air Kaikoura name from late May 2020

VH-PGU3 is c/n GA8-TC-320 and it began life as VH-BQYin June of 2009 with MAF at Cairns and became P2-MFLin October 2009 with MAF at Mt Hagen in PNG.
Back in Australia it became VH-PGUon 31-08-2021 with Eyal Aharoni of Wellington, NZ.
It has been noted flying around NZin its Australian registration since early November 2021.

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