NZ Civil Aircraft

The weather in Wellington was "adventurous" during my tome there, ranging from gale force Northerlies with rain to gale force Sout...

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Action Helicopters of Queenstown has been busy of late adding more AS350 Squirrels to the fleets of HeliWorks and Heli Glenorchy. These incl...

Back in late 1987 four Grumman G164 Ag Cats in various conditions were imported from Australia. To the best of my knowledge these were VH-JB...

Carrying on with my road trip to Wellington under a clear blue sky I drove past the snow covered Central Plateau mountains which provided sp...

A stunning day at Milford Sound today saw virtually the entire fleet of tourist aircraft from Queenstown and Wanaka arrive at Milford Sound ...

I had cause to do a road trip from Warkworth to Wellington last week, and I called into a few airfields along the way.  Most were pretty qui...

 Fiordland Lodge situated on the Milford Highway is also the base for Fiordland Helicopters and outside there this morning was their AS350B2...

A recent visitor to Pauanui from North Shore was the Piper PA28R-200 Cherokee Arrow ZK-RTE sporting a smart new paint scheme.   Originally b...

 The first aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft Company was the Model 17. This first aircraft had a fixed undercarriage and a 38% negative st...