Christchurch to Dunedin

Travelling today down SH1 from Christchurch to Dunedin offered a lot of aviation activity starting with the Helicopters South Canterbury base at Waitohi their Bell 206B ZK-IOI was getting ready to head out on a spray job.  This was imported from the US in 2015 and acquired by the company in 2018.

Further down at Herbert at the Central South Island Helicopters base their AS350BA sprayer ZK-HGO2 was just back from a job.  This was imported from Japan in 1992 and acquired by the company in 2012.

Parked up at Southair Taieri was the Cessna T188C AgHusky ZK-RJB operated by Enfield Enterprises Ltd from their Whitstone base.   This was imported from Australia in early 2020.

A new 2021 Rans S7S is ZK-SRD which is registered to a Geraldine owner.

Arriving back at a very busy Helicopters Otago base at Taieri was Kawasaki BK117B-2 ZK-IME after dropping off a patient at Dunedin Hospital.   This was imported from Australia in 2008 and acquired by the company in 2010.

Added to the Helicopters Otago fleet in October 2020 was the Guimbal G2 Cabri ZK-IOD,  which was reregistered from ZK-HOT7 imported new in 2019.