Agairnz has kindly supplied these photos of the Blackhawk N160PA arriving at Ardmore yesterday afternoon (12-06-2019) from the Port of Auckland.
The helicopter arrived at the Port aboard the container ship Cap Capricorn from Long Beach yesterday.
See HERE for 'Stuff' story.
Also have a gander at the Kahu facebook page.
The helicopter has been imported by Kahu Helicopters (formerly Frontier Helicopters) of Whakatane.
It is a Sikorsky EH-60A Blackhawk and was manufactured in 1986 and is c/n 70-1132 and ex US Army serial 86-24572
It is at Ardmore for several days to have some mods done on it.
I expect it will become ZK-HKU3.
See more on the MRC blogsite HERE
Somewhere around 2004 +/- on holiday back in country I saw a Chinook operating along the Mt Maunganui coastline. Would it have been from Frontier? Driving at the time.
ReplyDeleteMorning packapoo.
ReplyDeleteMost likely the Boeing Vertol107 ZK-HCW/3.
Check out the link below.
Cheers
https://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/2014/09/looking-back.html
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ReplyDelete24572 is an aircraft that I flew in Desert Storm. It was one of 3 EH60As in my platoon, assigned at that time to Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Bliss, TX.
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