Sunday, 15 February 2026

Healthy Bastards Bush Pilots Champs at Omaka 7-2-2026

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This year the Healthy Bastards Bush Pilots Champs at Omaka clashed with the SAANZ Flyin at Masterton (maybe it does every year?) so some pil...
Thursday, 12 February 2026

Vans RV 8 ZK-VAF/2 at Omaka Today 12-2-2026

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While at Omaka today for the first engine run of the Yak 7B ZK-YKB, Zac Yates managed a photo of the relatively newly registered Vans RV 8 ...
Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Microlight Aircraft of New Zealand - Pterodactyls (6) - The Rest of Our Ascenders

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From 1985 onwards there were another 10 Pterodactyl Ascenders registered with one being re-registered with a new registration: ZK-FLJ ZK-FLR...

Three from Rangiora on Tuesday.

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 A quick visit to Rangiora today (Tuesday the 10th) found these three interesting aircraft. This will be the last time you see the Air New Z...
Monday, 9 February 2026

SAANZ Grand Champion from Masterton

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Arjen Visser took out the Best Kitbuilt Aircraft and Grand Champion trophies with his lovely Sling 4TSi ZK-DBV 2 at the SAANZ flyin that w...
Sunday, 8 February 2026

Another Sunday stroll around Nelson Airport.

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  Bill Mannix did one of his regular walks around the Nelson Airport perimeter track today (08-02-2026) and offers us photos of four visito...

A Couple More Photos of Pterodactyl Ascenders

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Thanks to Peter Lewis who has sent in some photos of Pterodactyl Ascenders that Neville Drake took at Pikes Point: ZK-FKF  and ZK-JFB Pete...
Saturday, 7 February 2026

Microlight Aircraft of New Zealand - Pterodactyls (5) - Ascenders of 1984

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There were 13 Pterodactyl Ascender microlight aircraft registered here in 1984: ZK-FIY ZK-FIZ ZK-FJG ZK-FJJ ZK-FJK ZK-FJP ZK-FKB ZK-FKF ...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Fling wing Wednesday # 1

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 Wednesday over at Rangiora I found two surprises. The McDonnell Douglas MD520N NOTAR ZK-HWH 2 c/n LN098 in Opotiki Helicopters NZ markings ...