Friday helicopters

 At Rangiora on Friday the MD 500N NOTAR ZK-HSB3 c/n LN044 was parked outside Aerofix Ltd and about to depart.

ZK-HSB was built in the latter part of 1992 as N52184 before heading down to Guatemala as TG-DIS in January of 1993.

From there it moved to South Korea to become HL9135 in November 1996.

It entered the ZK register on 17-08-2023 for its current listed owner, Cyclic Services Ltd of Auckland,

to make way for the arrival of the Phoenix Trading 2002 Ltd's Aerospatiale AS 350 B2 ZK-HLS6 c/n 2634 below.

This Squirrel arrived in NZ after an early life in Italy as I-PRID from 1992 followed by time in the USA from 1999 initially as N816CE, then as N816CF from 2010, and lastly N991DW before joining Phoenix Trading in Christchurch on 08-06-2016.