Loburn Abbey Fly-in yesterday

Thanks to Ivan Campbell and his team a  very successful fly-in was held at his Loburn Abbey property yesterday.

Titan T51 Mustangs 'Six'.

Australis Premium Cirrus N438NZ

Magnaman was at Ardmore yesterday 22-04-2017 and snapped the Cirrus N438NZ.

 Cirrus N438NZ (c/n 4438) gained its US certification and Airworthiness cert on 23-01-2017 being registered to Avcorp US Registrations LLC of Wilmington, Delaware the same day.

Check HERE for delivery details to NZ (Thanks to the MRC blog site).

It is being actively demonstrated around NZ.

Omaka from Sir Minty # 3

Spitfires three at Omaka on 15-04-2017 thanks to Sir Minty.

ITL Aviation Ltd's Spitfire MkIX ZK-SPI is c/n CBAF 3128.

The Warbird Adventure Rides Ltd's Spitfire MkIX ZK-WDQ is c/n CBAF 5487.

The Chariots of Fire Fighter Collection's Supermarine 379 Spitfire FR MkXIV ZK-XIV2 is c/n 65-648269.

Omaka from Sir Minty # 2

Foreign registered aircraft noted at Omaka on 15-04-2017 by Sir Minty include :-

The Bucker Bu132 Jungman SE-AIK was previously mentioned HERE.

The Comper CLA.7 Swift marked as VH-UVC (c/n 532/10) is not long off a major rebuild thanks to JEM Aviation.

Check HERE
In actual fact it was registered as ZK-UVC to JEM Aviation Ltd on 07-11-2016.
It will have temporary tape markings for its NZ flights before its return to Australia.

Built by Avioane Craiova SA this Yakovlev Yak 3U-R2000 (c/n 001-3/2005) entered the US register as N46463 on 11-11-2005 for William Whiteside and was used with some success in the Reno racing circuit as "Steadfast". 

The c/n tells us that it was built in 2005 and the model tells of its Pratt and Whitney R2000 engine.

It was sold to Australia and became VH-YOV with Eastern Fighters Pty Ltd of Perth from 24-12-2013. Ownership moved to Team Steadfast Pty Ltd in Queensland from 21-10-2015.

It was shipped over to Omaka for the Show - thanks again to JEM Aviation.

Omaka as captured by Sir Minty # 1

Sir Minty made it to Omaka for the Easter gathering and offers the following photographs as taken on April the 15th.

Gert Van Kruiningen had his Airdrome Aeroplanes  Bleriot XI ZK-BXI2 (c/n BLE-003) up from Rangiora.

A very recent addition to our civil aircraft register is the McNair Mynah listed as ZK-LOI (c/n 5) on 13-03-17.

I'm guessing that the registration tells us that it belongs to Louis McNair.

More details on this in the next edition of the NZ Aviation news Magazine.

The locally based Avro 652A Anson Mk1 ZK-RRA which first flew as such back on 18-07-2012.

The Yakovlev Yak-3M ZK-VVS (c/n 0470106) from the Yak 3 Fighter Syndicate also first flew in NZ  in 2012.

All four have featured on this site previously.

Tauranga

A visit to a very sunny Tauranga revealed locally based Adventure Helicopters Guimbal Cabri ZK-IIM,  and Solo Wings Searey now wearing its ZK-SWM registration.

Visitors included Zenith CH601 ZK-JQT from Turangi and Aerospool Dynamic WT9 ZK-MLC from Hamilton

PAC 750s

A visit to Hamilton yesterday produced the latest PAC 750 off the production line, ZK-KDO c/n 211,  parked by the terminal,  while on the other side was ZK-XLK, the latest addition to the Kiwi Air fleet.  This was formerly Tandem Skydiving Taupo's ZK-JQK sold to Kiwi Air in December 2016.

Sportcruiser ZK-VCP

Noted fenced in at Tauranga yesterday (21-04-2017) by Grayson Ottaway was the Czech Aircraft Works Sportcruiser ZK-VCP2.

ZK-VCP2 (c/n SC700158) is aptly listed to Vehicle Chip Protection NZ Ltd of Hamilton.

The earlier ZK-VCP was a Zenith CH601-XL as with Jack Schaake of Vehicle Chip Protection.

See the earlier post on these two HERE

Lest we forget.

A window at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Paunaui Easter

A very quiet Easter long weekend at Pauanui with the Yaks away at Omaka and only a dozen or so visitors, mainly regulars from Auckland.

Amongst them, however, were Auckland based Beech F33A Bonanza ZK-EDS which did several local flights,  and the very smart RV8 ZK-PJH from Rotorua,  the registration derived from its owner's name, P J Higgins.