Sunday, 18 April 2010

Sextislander at North Shore

Seen at North Shore Airfield yesterday. I'm not sure but I think that is what you might call 2 Trislanders? I thought an A 340-600 was along aircraft to photograph but 2 Trislanders in line astern seem even longer and thinner!


ZK-LGF seems to be inching towards service as it had seats installed yesterday. I guess ZK-LGC was in for service but maybe they have run out of lower engine cowls!

As far as I know the third Trislander ZK-LOU is still stuck on Great Barrier Island after a propellor came off and sliced into the fuselage - very scary.

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  1. bobgod19 April 2010 at 14:29

    See how different they look with the short nose /no front locker!
    A great aircraft[I used to look after a couple of them!]
    [URL=http://onlinestuffs.com/][IMG]http://hl.onlinestuffs.com/uploads/originals/37/tc/v9/ba.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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  2. rayner12319 April 2010 at 18:07

    hello do you have any info bout syd jensens turbulents he made when he had aerokraft kits please

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  3. Anonymous19 April 2010 at 20:33

    Trilander LOU is actually inside the hanger, so there really is three trislanders in a row, just you cant see one :-D

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  4. Sir Minty19 April 2010 at 22:37

    Thanks for that Anonymous. So it really could have been a Nontislander!

    rayner 123 - Syd Jensen built the first Turbulent to fly in New Zealand ZK-BVT. Then he built a series of Turbulent kits at Aerocraft: ZK-CFW and ZK-CFZ which were not completed, and ZK-CFX and ZK-CFY which were completed after several years storage, and are both still current. Syd/Aerocraft also built a Cassutt Racer that was not completed from my memory.

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  5. rayner12320 April 2010 at 17:26

    thanx for that i have aquired his unsold kits 5 aircraft in total plus all the jigs and everything else rudder kits alieron kits etc,still in orignal packets one aircraft which is 90% complete was started bout ten years ago i intend on doing as cfw.i have 3 other fuesalgaes made but are dismantled 3 wing main spars im in the process of recording every thing watch this space as they say

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  6. Anonymous20 April 2010 at 18:27

    is there another Trislander in bits or under repair in addition to the broken prop ZKLOU ?? I thought that there was another ZKLGC prior to the blue version??

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  7. Sir Minty20 April 2010 at 22:07

    Anonymous - I will have to leave the details of other Trislanders to Blue Bus.. Blue Bus, can you help?

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  8. Sir Minty20 April 2010 at 22:12

    rayner123 - interesting to hear that you have the remaining Aerocraft Turbulent kits. I saw an advert for a Turbulent for sale in a recent Sport Flying magazine, at New Plymouth as I recall. There was a photo of it and it was blue and yellow. Is this one of your machines?

    I thought I would do a post on Turbulents in New Zealand sometime.

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  9. Dave Paull22 April 2010 at 22:48

    There are three Trislanders registered at the moment. ZK-LGC/2 c/n 1042, ZK-LGR c/n 372 and ZK-LOU c/n 322.

    ZK-LGF c/n 1023 was registered very briefly in February, but I would imagine it will be back on the register soon !

    ZK-LGC/1 c/n C381 was withdrawn & cancelled on 02-10-2008. I assume it still lurks about someplace. Probably the one Anon refers to.

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