Christchurch Thursday the 6th

 A quick visit to Christchurch Helicopters found the Guimbal Cabri G2 ZK-IIW c/n 1126 as listed with Kakahu Lodge Ltd from 17-04-2024.

                                                       This is ex B-70GT and B-70NN.   Thanks to Christchurch Helicopters.  

Over at the ANZ hangar One the Airbus A321-271 NX ZK-OYD c/n 11521 has been parked up for some time - waiting.

It was test flown under its Airbus Deutschland registration of D-AXXV on 11-10-2023 - becoming ZK-OYD on 31-10-2023. It departed Hamburg on delivery the same day stopping at Muscat. The following day it overflew Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Saudia Arabia, the Persian Gulf and into Oman. On 02-11-2023 it flew to Kuala Lumpur and down to Singapore. It was in Cairns on the 4th and then flew direct to Christchurch and was placed into immediate storage.

The Airways Corporation of New Zealand operates this Piper PA-42-1000 Cheyenne 400LS ZK-FIS2 c/n 42-5527019 on airways calibration duties.

FYI - The 400 in the designation represents 400mph and the LS is for Lear Seigler the Piper parent company in the mid 1980's.

Built in late 1985 as N1515H. It moved to Australia to become VH-BUR3 from 30-07-2007 with Burley Aircraft Pty Ltd of Johns River , NSW. Ten years later it became ZK-FIS2 on 02-11-2017 with Airways Corporation.