Helicopters in the North of the South.

The Blue Bus is wandering around the top of the South at the moment.

I have stumbled over these helicopters in the last few days.

 Above we see the HNZ New Zealand Ltd's Aerospatiale AS 350 BA ZK-HNX c/n 1828 at Nelson.

It came from the Philippines as ex RP-C777 in September of 1999 and returned there in February 2011 - only to come back onto the NZ register again on 30-01-2012.

 Garden City's Nelson based Kawasaki BK117 B2 ZK-IMN c/n 1018.

It has been mentioned several times previously. See :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/long-haul-helicopter-delivery.html

and

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/garden-city-bk117-zk-imn.html

 Robinson R44 Raven II ZK-IRB is c/n 10120 and has been with Coast to Coast at Motueka since 06-03-2014.

 An unexpected find was this Agusta-Bell AB206A ZK-HMU c/n 8127. 

An earlier post can be seen at :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/ardmore-bells.html