Ten Thousand Posts! and a New H 130 Helicopter

WOO HOO!  This post is number TEN THOUSAND since the NZ Civair blog was first published in December 2007.  You can have a look at the first post HERE

The blog was set up by Mike Condon (MRC Aviation) and other contributors over the 18 years have included Blue Bus, Greybeard, AVI8OR, Flyernzl, AgAirNZ, Minicooper, Richard Currie and I used the handle Sir Minty for many years.  My apologies if I have missed any contributing posters - let me know and I can add to this post.  Thanks also to the many other people who have sent in photos to be posted  Although ten thousand posts is a great milestone we will carry on and if anyone else wants to join as a posting contributor contact Dave Paull whose email is in the heading photo.

And so to the subject of this post:  Yesterday I was down at North Shore and I called into the Rosedale heliport where a new bright red Airbus H 130 helicopter was out in the sun:

ZK-IEH3 (c/n 7939) was registered to Inflite Ltd earlier this month.  It is great to see a brightly coloured H 130 as although most of the others have subtle colours they mostly all seem to be black to me.

Actually the fortuitous sighting of this helicopter nicely book-ends the ten thousand posts as the very first photo posted was of a bright yellow Eurocopter EC 130 helicopter, ZK-HPV4.  In that original post Mike Condon noted that this bought the New Zealand population of these machines to one dozen.  And Richard Currie advises that there are now 46 of these machines (of various versions) on the register.