Finally - a fine day at Rangiora.

A lovely fine day at Rangiora today - even if the northeasterly wind picked up later.

In from just a little way up country was Dave Mitchell with his Rans S6-ES Tail Dragger Coyote II  ZK-DYM c/n 04051657.

A recent arrival now based here is the Bell 47G-3B1 Sioux AH.1 ZK-HJH4 c/n WA508 which was registered to Flaxfern Ltd of Rangiora on 17-12-2021.

Note - Still in its XT801 Army Air Corp scheme.

An earlier post on this beast can be seen here :-

http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2017/01/bell-47g-3b1-zk-hjh.html

Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk ZK-JFE c/n 38-78A0568 is a resident at Plane Worx Maintenance hangar at  Rangiora.  It is still listed with New Zealand Aviation Academy Ltd of Stoke.

The Piper PA-31-310C Navajo ZK-JGA c/n 31-7612102 has been listed with Landpro Ltd of Cromwell (based Wanaka I believe).

More on this 1976 classic can be found here :- 

https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2017/01/nelson-twins-25-01-2017.html

I finally managed to catch the Savannah S ZK-SGC c/n 20-12-54-0750 which was registered to the Mainpen Syndicate of Rolleston on 02-11-2021.