An interesting visitor to a very busy Pauanui airfield today was the Air Chathams' Rockwell Commander 690A ZK-PVB from Auckland. This is the first noted visit of one of the airlines' aircraft to Pauanui and it has been part of the Air Chathams fleet since 2016, being originally imported from Australia back in 2000.
With the cancellation of the Tauranga Airshow there have been 8 Yak52s resident over the weekend at Pauanui providing regular aerobatic displays. Today they were joined by the Yak 55M ZK-YKV up from Tauranga. This was imported from the US in 2008.
Somehow not blogged here before despite being in NZ since 1974 is the Piper PA28R-200 Cherokee Arrow ZK-DUS, also up from Tauranga. It has been with its current owner since 2002.
ZK-PVB had been in Tauranga on Saturday night having been flown to Tauranga by Duane Emeny (Chief Operating Officer) of Air Chathams. He was in Tauranga while the DC-3 ZK-AWP was conducting scenic flights from Tauranga to Waihi Beach and back. The Yak, ZK-YKV, was back in Tauranga on Sunday afternoon.
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