Mystery item !

What can anybody tell us about this item as photographed at the Wanaka Toy Museum  on 18-02-2010 by Sandy Benzies ?

Question time # 106 resolved

QW has scored again with his 110% answer.

Bennett PL-11 Airtruck ZK-BPV , c/n BA-001 , was listed to Bennett Aviation Ltd of Te Kuiti on 26-11-1959 and first flew in August of 1960.

The aircraft was operated by Northern Air Services Ltd from Te Kuiti until it was damaged on take off from Ngapaenga on 08-10-1963 with the pilot being injured. It was cancelled on 21-10-1963

Bennett Aviation became Waitomo Aircraft Ltd and produced one other as ZK-CKE which flew in April of 1965.

SEX and SKB

Following on from my earlier post about the departure of Cessna 207 ZK-SEX, Simon Brown of Timaru shares this shot of it parked at Milford Sound on May 2nd this year.


And also at Milford on the same (along with numerous other aircraft) was Caravan ZK-SKB. Thanks very much Simon!

Question time # 106 revisited

I offer you this additional pictorial clue to Question time # 106

Original clue below.

All I need to know is the aircraft type and a likely registration.

I have the strawberry choc fish sitting here in front of me - very tempting.

Bristols showing

An undated shot taken from the observation spot on top of the old Wellington airport terminal building.

I would put the date in the late 1960's.

Five Bristol Freighters braving the Wellington weather beyond the finger that extended out to the departure/arrival gates.

I bumped into "mintie" today (not to be confused with Sir Minty) at the Canterbury Aero Club today. In the course of our discussion he mentioned that he has his own blog hidden within the www.rcgroups.com site. This is well worth looking into. Either use the above link, then click on "blogs" then click on "mintie" in the blog list on the right hand side; or go direct to his blog via. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=159330

The photograph above was nicked from this site (Thank you mintie).

A good haul at NZCH

The Schweizer 300CBi N20699 , c/n 0151 , came out of its container on the old Skysales (NZ) Ltd pad on 07-07-10 (pic above). [This was the airframe use in Question Time #105]. It was then moved over to the Heli Maintenance hangar for its NZ certification to become ZK-HYC3. This is not yet complete but I spied it today in the Heli Maintenance hangar marked up as HYC. (pic below)It was manufactured in 02-03 and shows 2250 hours on the hobbs meter.

Parked outside their hangar was the Robinson R22 Beta ZK-HZY2 , c/n 2645 , of JDC Helicopters Ltd of Timaru. This was initially registered in NZ as ZK-HKL3 back on 25-11-1996 but exported to Australia in April of 1998 to become VH-RTS. It returned here as ZK-HZY for Karl Burtscher in August of 1999.

Another surprise sighting for the day was the new Tecnam P2006T twin engine demonstrator ZK-TTW , c/n 020.

No More SEX

Updated with addition of photo - still looking for a more recent image.

Arriving in New Zealand back in 1983 was Cessna T207A ZK-SEX for Air Safaris. It remained with the scenic flights operator at Tekapo until September 2002 when it moved to a similar operation out of Wanaka and later to Queenstown. It departed from Kerikeri for Norfolk Island today and then to Lord Howe Island 11 July with its ownership being changed on 14 July to Horsham Aviation of Victoria on 14 July.

At Wanaka April 1992, Mike Condon photo

Can anyone provide a recent image of this aircraft? Please email mikeskj@xtra.co.nz, thanks.

Exported

Cancelled from the register 14Jul10 was Advanced Flight's Eurocopter EC130 ZK-HSW, the fourth helicopter to have worn the registration HSW and the second EC130 model to bear these marks.

This example was first registered 24Nov06 replacing HSW/3 which was cancelled a week prior.

It is seen in the photo alighting from the Eurocopter facility at Ardmore in May 2007 and it was noted in the same hanger 14Jul10 minus its registration.

Question time # 106

What do you make of this then ?

I am particularly interested in the likely type, model and registration of this aircraft.