My late Friday Pie Run.

 I dropped into Rangiora today - Saturday the 26th - for my Friday Pie Run and found a couple of aircraft worthy of more attention.

Surprise catch was the Roy Hill Fletcher FU24-950 c/n 241 ZK-EGS. 

Rumours from the 'Club House' are that it has been sold to a North Island operator.

See Here for more on this Fletcher.

Over from Hokitika for the day was the Robinson R44 Raven II ZK-HLI8 c/n 13075.

This came in new to NZ to become ZK-IZA from 24-11-2010 - with a re-registration to ZK-IWF on 09-05-2012. As such it joined Buttle Properties 05 Ltd of Darfield from 10-10-2016.

They re-registered it as ZK-HLI8 a week later. 

From 20-02-2019 it changed from the Company name to Charles and Susan Buttle.

Current operator, Henry Adams Contracting Ltd of Hokitika took it on from 30-11-2023.

Tie-Upp Aviation's latest addition is this Cessna A152 Aerobat ZK-TIE c/n A1520917 which joined them on 28-01-2025 after importation from the USA.

I believe it has a full IFR instrument fit out.

See a previous mention HERE