Two recent Australian visitors to Christchurch

 Tony McFarlin captured these two Australian visitors into Christchurch earlier this week.

Embraer 505 Phenom VH-NJR3 c/n 5050074 was built by Embraer as PS-GMU and became VH-NJR on 06-03-2024. It was listed to if current operator NIOA Aviation Number 2 Pty Ltd of Brisbane on 29-07-2024.

It flew into Christchurch on 01-10-2024.

Dropping in on the 3rd via Queenstown and Sydney was the Bombardier CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604  VH-XPA3 c/n 5385. Initially allocated C-GLXD to the manufacturer it moved on to become N72NP in August 1998, then back to Canada as C-FCPI in December 2012. Next allocation was N604SC in February 2015 and then as LV-FWZ from August 2015. From March 2022 it was N685SC until sold in Australia to take up VH-XPA3 from 18-07-2023 with Business Aviation Solutions of Brisbane.