Rotorua Floatplanes and a Helicopter

Last Wednesday afternoon 15/2/17, Volcanic Air Safari's was out flying tourists at the Lake Rotorua waterfront and also at the airport:

Floatplanes among the ducks!

The unique to NZ DHC 3 Otter ZK-VAS (c/n 35),

Cessna U206G ZK-FEO (c/n U20603797),

and at Rotorua International, Squirrel AS350 B3 ZK-IKJ (c/n 4536) arrived.  This has only been with Volcanic Air Safaris since 13/1/17.

Diamond Star ZK-YHK

An recent addition to the varied fleet of Classic Flights Ltd at Wanaka is the Diamond DA40 Diamond Star ZK-YHK. 

This was built at London, Ontario, Canada and flown as C-GPDA with Canadian Diamond Aircraft Sales Ltd before being sold to 2579180 Manitoba Ltd of Shoal Lake Manitoba in about August of 2008. In May of 2012 it moved to Northern Ventures Ltd, still of Shoal Lake and finally to Devon Galloway of St Jacobs, Ontario. 

It became ZK-YHK on 13-01-2017 and joins the Tiger Moth ZK-ALJ, the Cessna 172’s ZK-BZU and ZK-KAS, the Waco YMF ZK-YMF, the Citabria ZK-CPM and the Piper PA-28 Cherokee 140’s ZK-CUX, ZK-DEB and ZK-DEJ.

Also resident in their hangar is the Nokomai Ltd's Tiger Moth ZK-BAA

E5-TCM at a wet Ardmore late afternoon 16-2-17

Cessna Citation II ES-TCM msn 550-0057 ex VH-FOJ arrived at Ardmore in less than ideal conditions late yesterday afternoon from Napier, having flown there from Hamilton earlier in the day. This jet is operated by Air Rarotonga and will also be the first jet on the Cook Islands Aircraft Register.

Progressive Aerodyne Searey ZK-SWM

I was at Tauranga last Saturday and called into the Solo Wings maintenance hangar and chatted to Colin Alexander.  One of the first things that I saw was that the Searey N415TA had the registration removed and Colin told me that it was going to be registered on the new Zealand Civil register.

Today it was registered with the appropriate registration of ZK-SWM.

From Robert Ridge

The Nelson Lakes Gliding Club operate out of the Lake Station strip near St Arnaud and often use the nearby Robert Ridge, which overlooks the village of St Arnaud and Lake Rotoiti, as a nursery ridge.

 Two shots of the CFI Mike Strathern flying his Schleicher Ka6E Rhonsegler ZK-GFM (c/n 4101). This is coming up to being fifty years old.

 The Club operates the Rolladen-Schneider LS4a ZK-GCX (c/n 4482) which was imported by Gerry O'Neil for the Club back in 2012.

 Below we see the Club trolley Grob G-103 Twin II ZK-GMZ (c/n 3673) trucking along the ridge.

Thanks to Andy Heap for the fine effort.

A few from last weekends SAA fly-in

Below we have half a dozen shots taken at last weekends Ashburton SAA fly-in.

 Ivan Campbell had his Supermarine Spitfire Mk26B Replica ZK-CGV2 (c/n 52) on show on Saturday the 4th. Note centre line bomb.

 Down from Tauranga was the Piper PA-28R 200 Arrow ZK-EBA (c/n 28R-7535101) of Ashe Farm Ltd, complete with mobile accommodation.

 The Paul Beardsell Cessna 172P ZK-ETT (c/n 17274937) made the journey. 

 A photo from Allan Bowman shows the LOM engine installation in the De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk ZK-LOM.

 A reminder for Les Eade.

The Just Highlander ZK-MCQ3  (c/n JA221-11-10) is the Neil McHugh example - down from Hamilton.

ZK-DYB heading home

 With a belly full of fuel and a rising sun,

Tony Quayle in his Jodel D.11 ZK-DYB (c/n AACA/181) clears vector 02 at Ashburton

and heads towards its home at Paraparaumu last Monday at the end of the SAA fly-in.
With a couple of trophies.

Healthy Bastards # 4

 The Peter and Bruce Clulow Cub Crafters CC11-160 ZK-PBC (c/n CC11-00194)  was up from Wanaka.

 Then we have the Sounds Air Pilatus PC12/45 ZK-PLT c/n 379.

 Chris Anderson's Zenith CH701 STOL ZK-TIA c/n 7-4514 - was another of the Rangiora mob.

And the local Avro Anson ZK-RRA was out for the day.

Healthy Bastards # 3

 Maule M-5-235 ZK-DWR is c/n 7234C as listed with Pegasus Aviation Ltd of Rangiora.

 The local Van Asch Grigg Partnerships Cessna 180 ZK-FDO is c/n 50017.

 Deane Philip in his Honda Viking powered Zenith CH701 STOL ZK-JUG c/n 7-6067.

From the local Marlborough Aero Club came the Cessna 172 ZK-OMR.

Savannah at Ashburton SAA Fly In last weekend.

Following on from the earlier post on ZK-MYN at NZAS (seen here ) Westwind Aviation Ltd set up a display centered around this demonstrator and a partially constructed fuselage.

The Company demonstrator ICP Savannah S ZK-MYN (c/n 14-11-54-0359) was first registered to Philip Seale on 19-01-2016.

Tony Den Haan had his recently completed Savannah S example ZK-BIC2 (c/n 14-11-54-0359) on site for the Saturday.

The South Eyre Trust also fronted up on the Saturday with their XL model ZK-CVK2 (c/n 10-7-51-916).

Michael Glen was also on the field with his XL example ZK-MHG (c/n 09-02-51-809).

And the demo partially assembled rear fuselage was for all to see.