Recent Rangiora pics.

A visit to Rangiora on Friday revealed the Zenith CH701 STOL SP ZK-DBC3 c/n 7-5464 making use of its Rotax 914 Turbo on take off.

This was built in the USA as N510DM with a date of manufacture of October 2005 at Fort Collins in Colorado.

It was certified at Rangiora by Stol Performance NZ Ltd and joined our register on 05-07-2016 for James Herlihy of Patearoa. It underwent a major rework at Custom Aviation at Taieri in 2018 and later sold to its current owner Jeremy Hurst, down Waimate way, in September of 2021.

After a period of storage, the Sigma Aircraft Sigma - 4 ZK-JRC2 c/n 09 is coming back together and should be back in the air shortly for its owner, since 2009, Harry Devonish of Christchurch. 
This is just one of four imported by Maxim Vassiliev - ZK-JQF, ZK-JRN, ZK-JRC and ZK-SRN, with just the last two still on our register.