Motueka Sunday afternoon October 6th

A belated report from Motueka for Sunday

De Havilland DHC-1A-1 Chipmunk ZK-CVM2  (c/n 34)  as listed to M Woodhouse of Richmond was out and about.

Mentioned previously Here

Thorp T-18 ZK-EDF (c/n AACA/680) of Kevin Foster of Upper Moutere.

More on EDF can be found Here

Another Kevin Foster machine is the Lancair Lancair ES ZK-EDZ2 (c/n LES-254).

This has also been mentioned previously Here

Another surprise was the Titan T51 Mustang ZK-TCV2. (c/n 0081) of Alan Caudwell.

Murchison Heli Tours Ltd Sunday 6th

I was driving through Murchison on Sunday (as you do) and found both of the Murchison Heli Tours Ltd's Squirrels out in the sunshine.

Eurocopter AS 350 B3 ZK-IKA2 (c/n 3409) is a recent addition to the fleet having transferred over from Action Helicopters Ltd of Queenstown on 20 September 2019.

This helicopter has served time in Italy, Indonesia and Australia before coming to NZ to become ZK-IGY with Action on 26 January 2017. It was re-registered to ZK-IKA on 6 September.

A photo of it as ZK-IGY can be seen Here.

Aerospatiale AS 350 BA ZK-ILW (c/n 2459) started in Japan in 1991 followed by time in the Philippines and then Australia. It was registered as ZK-ILW and to Murchison Heli-Tours on 9 November 2017.

An earlier pic of ZK-ILW can be seen Here.

Druine Turbulent ZK-WPT

We have featured the Turbulent ZK-WPT in a couple of posts on the blog, originally by Allan Brizell of Westport (hence the registration?) at:  https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-more-turbulent.html  Allan completed the Turbulent after he had purchased it from Dennis Niles of New Plymouth.

It flew from Greymouth to Rangiora in 2014 but it has not flown since.  Blue Bus photo'd it above at Rangiora on 15/6/14.

Then I posted about it a few weeks ago after I had seen it in a hangar at Rangiora HERE  In that post I noted that it had a few matters that need sorting out before it could fly again.

Well it has transpired that the said matters were not able to be sorted out and the aircraft has since been parted out, as can be seen in this photo, also by Blue Bus, taken on 12/9/19.

So I reckon that the photo at the top above is probably the best photo we are going to get of ZK-WPT.  A sad end.

Around Auckland

A trip around Auckland's airports and heliports today offered a number of aircraft of interest,  including at Auckland International the latest addition to the Airwork freighter fleet 737-36E ZK-FXJ.   This was originally built in 1992 for the Spanish airline VIVA Air and laterly has been a freighter with Icelandic registered carrier Bluebird Cargo as TF-BBF

At HeleTranz Albany heliport AS350BA ZK-HFZ was outside wearing the company's titling

And up at North Shore airfield Barrier Air's Cessna 208B ZK-SDB departed on a scheduled Great Barrier trip

The North Shore Aero Club have refurbished the Robin HR200-120B ZK-UWZ,  repainted it in the Club's colours and reregistered it as ZK-TZI to match the rest of the Robin fleet which are all "TZ" registered.

Canterbury Aero Club's new Cessna 172's

Matt Hayes has provided a couple of nice photographs of the Canterbury Aero Club's recently acquired Cessna 172 Skyhawk SP's

Cessna 172R ZK-JNE3 (c/n 1720899) was listed to the Club on 29 March 2019 having begun its NZ career as ZK-JLY with Flightline Aviation Ltd on 13 June 2000. 

Massey University School of Aviation at Palmerston North took it on from 4 December of 2000 until moving on to Premi-Air Aviation Ltd of Auckland from 14 July 2003. It was quickly on sold to JLY Ltd of Auckland and then to CTC Aviation Training (NZ) Ltd of Hamilton from 6 March 2009.

It was transferred to the Nelson Aviation College Ltd at Motueka on 16 January 2012.

They re-registered it as ZK-NAD4 on 24 January 2012.

It was re-registered once again on 05-03-2019 to ZK-JNE3  prior to its move to Christchurch.

The photo above by Matt shows it in the Clubs Northwest Arch scheme on the hard at Lake Haupiri / Gloriavale on 19 September 2019.

Below is my  take of it at Christchurch on 30th of September.

The second is ZK-ZAN a Cessna 172S with c/n 17210101. 

This appeared on the US register as N553DW in December of 2005 before becoming ZK-NAV2 with the Nelson Aviation College Ltd at Motueka on 24 May of 2012.

It was re-registered as ZK-ZAN on 8 March 2019 before being listed to the Canterbury AeroClub on 29 March 2019.

Matt's photo above shows it on the lower Mount White strip on 22 August 2019.

My offering below at Christchurch on the 30th September.

RV 7 ZK-WOS at Paraparaumu 4-10-2019

Jordan Elvy was at Paraparaumu today to catch the recently imported Vans RV 7 ZK-WOS2:

ZK-WOS2 (c/n 73058) was registered to Waste of Space Aviation Ltd of Napier on 17/9/19.

Its previous identity is VH-VFS and as such it flew across the Tasman in August 2019.  See:  https://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/2019/08/vans-rv-7-vh-vfs.html

The first ZK-WOS was a Cessna A185F which was re-registered ZK-WSB in June 2006 and is still current.

Thanks for the photos Jordan.

Pauanui

A recent arrival in NZ is Air Centre One's appropriately registered Beech A36 Bonanza ZK-ACO, which arrived in NZ from Australia in September 2019.  The registration "ACO" was last used on a DH89 Dragon Rapide in 1935.

Despite the demise of the Middle Earth Flying School the Cessna 172S ZK-KOL still carries their NZ Aviation titling,  its new operator is not yet known

Not noted here before is the Auckland based Cirrus SR22 ZK-WHL which was imported from Australia back in 2014

Ibis Magic GS 700s of New Zealand

The next type of sport aircraft to arrive here was the Ibis Magic GS 700.  Ibis Aircraft S A was formed in Santiago de Cali in Colombia in 1990 and has produced around 8 models since that time.

The Ibis Magic GS 700 was designed to comply with FAI microlight and US LSA rules and first appeared in 2003.  It is constructed mainly from 6061-T6 aluminium sheet and it was designed to use unimproved airstrips.  It looks a lot like a Cessna 150.  Its LSA specifications are:  Length 6.85 metres (22 feet 8 inches), wingspan 8.55 metres (28 feet 1 inch) with a wing area of 134 square feet.  Its empty weight is around 320 Kg (705 pounds) with a MAUW of 600 Kg (1,323 pounds).  With the standard 100 HP Rotax 912ULS engine the cruise speed is around 115 mph and the stall speed is around 35 mph.

We have had five Ibis Magics in New Zealand to date, as follows:

The first Ibis Magic GS 700 to be registered here came from Australia where it was registered 24-7125.  It was registered here on 30/8/11 as ZK-PLC (c/n GS 05-08-700-68) to Peter L Collins of Rangiora.  It is photo'd above at Rangiora very early on in its life, on 14/9/11.

And again at Rangiora on 4/5/12.

It was re-registered as ZK-KAC2 on 12/3/14, and then sold on 21/3/14 to the Skippen and Middleton Partnership of Richmond (and later Upper Moutere), with whom it is still current.  It is photo'd above at Rangiora on 21/3/14.

Next up was ZK-MGC (c/n 05-08-700-69) which was registered to Jet Boat Com Ltd of Gore (Neil Ross) on 16/9/11.  On 21/10/12 ownership changed to Brian Nimmo of Wanaka, and on 30/11/16 to the TJ Duncan and JC Templeton Syndicate of Wanaka.  It is photo'd above at Rangiora on 12/10/11.

Then followed a couple of later models that have revised cabin windows.  ZK-DUH2 (c/n 10-11-700-114) was registered to Douglas C Anderson of Christchurch on 24/4/12.  It is photo'd above at Rangiora on 30/6/12.  On 15/11/18 ownership transferred to Colin F Hay of Waimate, and the aircraft is based at his hangar at Oamaru.

Arriving in the same container was ZK-PLC2 (c/n 10-11-700-115) which was the second Ibis Magic for Peter L Collins of Rangiora.  It was registered on 17/3/14 and is photo'd above at Rangiora on 7/4/17, thanks to Blue Bus who has captured all of our Ibis Magics (until another one was imported from South Africa).

Our final Ibis Magic GS 700 to be registered to date was ZK-CCL2 (c/n 02-10-700-98), which is ex ZS-FJK and was imported to New Zealand by Juan-Pierre Schulze of Pukekohe and was registered to him on 7/11/18.  It is photo'd above at Mercer - thanks for the photo JP.

ZK-NNF

Parked outside the ANZES hangar at Christchurch today was the Airbus A321-271NX ZK-NNF c/n 8839.

First flown out of Hamburg as D-AVYR on 2 July 2019 it ferried in to Christchurch on 18 July and carried out its first revenue earning flight on the 25th from Christchurch to Auckland.

Hamilton

A visit to Hamilton Airport on a stunning spring morning revealed a hive of activity including the privately owned R44 ZK-ILC from Te Awamutu,  which was imported from Taiwan back in 1998

Up from Gisborne, Ashworth Helicopters' Bell 206L-3 ZK-IWA,  which has been with the company since importation from Japan in 2013

With the liquidation of the Matamata based NZ Aviation their training fleet has been sold on to other flying schools including the Ardmore Flying School and the Waikato Aero Club,  with the latter adding 172R's ZK-NPA and ZK-NUC to their fleet

Up from Whanganui was NZICPA's 172R ZK-WUE,  which was reregistered from ZK-NUU in August 2019

Also present at Central Aero Engineering awaiting NZ certification was the PZL 101A Gawron HA-SBM c/n 119295,  which was exported new to Hungary from Poland back in 1969.   This will be the first of its type to enter the ZK register.