Thursday 2 May 2024
An Omaka visitation by CMM (2)
More from the Feilding Open Day on 27-4-2024
There was a very good turn out of aircraft at the Feilding Open Day including these mostly locals:
Thanks for the photos Jordan and Dave.
Wednesday 1 May 2024
An Omaka visitation by CMM (1)
Islander (ZK-KTR) on the move.
The Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 c/n 759 was built by Intreprinderea de Reparatii Material Aeronautic (IRMA) of Bucharest, Romania as G-BCZD and finished at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. This included conversion to -21 standard with the 300hp Lycoming IO-540-K1B5 engines and with an air ambulance internal fit out for demonstrator duties with Britten-Norman (Bembridge) Ltd from 18-03-1975.
The photo below shoes it in its 'raw' state at Gatwick in 1975 following delivery from Romania.
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-VRG at Feilding Open Day 27-4-2024
There was an open day at Feilding aerodrome on Saturday 27 May with a good attendance of aircraft. One that caught my eye was Gary Marsh's 75% scale replica Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-RGV:
I thought it looked a little different and on comparison with older photos I discovered that there has been some major rework done on the engine cowling. If you compare it with the earlier photo below that was taken at Stratford in June 2019 you can see that it does not now have the lower scoop and this has been replaced by openings in the front either side of the spinner. Here Gary Marsh taxies in.A Few Photos on My Way to Dargaville on Saturday
I thought I would put up a few photos from Saturday, where the weather was - changeable! An earlier forecast was for fine but it changed the day before to showers:
Sunday 28 April 2024
Air Tractor AT 502A ZK-SXC in Action
Warwick Hamilton was out in the field near Tauranga today to capture these shots of Super Air's Air Tractor AT 502A at work:
Saturday 27 April 2024
Autogyro Europe Calidus ZK-MZM at Dargaville Today 27-4-2024
Finally a sort of OK for flying Saturday today let me fly up to Dargaville for their every Saturday lunch:
A "new" one at Dargaville was the rebuilt Autogyro Europe Calidus Fern gyrocopter ZK-MZM, fresh off re-assembly by Brian Taylor. It was recently registered to Cloud 7 Aviation Ltd of Ruakaka. This gyro suffered an accident at Te Haroto on the Napier-Taupo Road on 31/12/21 and has been under extensive rebuild since.Friday 26 April 2024
ANZAC Day Flyover across Manawatu and Wanganui
Thursday 25 April 2024
ANZAC Day Flyover at Tauranga
There was also an impressive line up for the ANZAC Day flyover at Tauranga, which also involved RNZAF Beechcraft Texans.
Whangarei Flying Club Flyover to Waipu for ANZAC Day
It has become a tradition for the Whangarei Flying Club to stage a flyover for the ANZAC Day service at Waipu. Here are some photos from today:
RNZN Sea Sprite Helicopter Flyover for ANZAC Day
A Royal New Zealand Navy SH-2G helicopter performed flyovers around Northland this morning. It passed quite low over Warkworth near the end of its circuit of the North:
Poseidon NZ4801 fly over for ANZAC Day
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Skyfox Gazelle ZK-PNB at Whangarei
Recently posted by the Whangarei Flying Club, the Ruawai based Skyfox Gazelle ZK-PNB now sports bigger tyres:
Saturday 20 April 2024
Piper Pawnee ZK-CIQ
The Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee B ZK-CIQ c/n 25-3128 was imported by Airwork (NZ) Ltd of Christchurch in April of 1965 and signed over to Aerial Farming of NZ Ltd of Palmerston North from 13-07-1965.Photo above shows it at Feilding on 12-02-1966.
Then James Aviation Ltd of Hamilton listed it on 09-12-1968.
It then appears to have been out of the air for a while as seen by the image below - taken at Omaka on 24-02-1999.