Another Savannah Registered - ZK-CEE/2

Last week another ICP Savannah S was registered, making 48 Savannah's that have been registered here to date.  But this one is a bit different - it is on amphibious floats!

ZK-CEE2 (c/n 16-08-54-0496) has been refurbished at Whangarei by Savannah owner Dave Cull at Whangarei after it was imported from the Solomon Islands in 2025.  Last week it was registered to its new owner, F A Watts of Napier.  Dave told me that the nose wheel (which is a bit difficult to see between the floats) retracts forwards when in flight.

It is a 2016 kit and was flown in the Solomon Islands as I-C664 by an Italian Roman Catholic priest to visit the far flung islands in the Western Solomons for missions purposes, but this was curtailed by Covid so it has very low hours.

The Italian owner of the Savannah was Luciano Capelli who was the Bishop of Gizo in the remote Western Solomons.  It is his family crest on the fuselage and this has been kept for ZK-CEE2.  Bishop Capelli retired in August 2023 and we can assume his replacement was not a pilot!