There was also an impressive line up for the ANZAC Day flyover at Tauranga, which also involved RNZAF Beechcraft Texans ..read more

It has become a tradition for the Whangarei Flying Club to stage a flyover for the ANZAC Day service at Waipu.  Here are some photos from today: Ready to set off... ANZAC Day commemorations at Waipu. Returning to land at Whangarei.  Nice job guys ..read more

A Royal New Zealand Navy SH-2G helicopter performed flyovers around Northland this morning.  It passed quite low over Warkworth near the end of its circuit of the North: The light conditions were not the best and due to its low viz scheme I cannot even see which one it was! There was also and ANZAC Day flypast by Jim Schmidt in his Tiger Moth, and later a Titan Mustang flew by ..read more

 The Royal New Zealand Boeing P-8A (737-8FV) NZ4801 c/n 67107 did a low level flight over many of the South Island East Coast towns this morning. Here we have two long shots of it over the Papanui RSA, Christchurch, on schedule at 1121am. This first flew on the Boeing test registration of N786DS on 07-08-2022 and ferried into Ohakea on 12-12-2022. Below a shot of it as N786DS taken by hau-Wu at Boeing Field on 16-08-2022 ..read more

Recently posted by the Whangarei Flying Club, the Ruawai based Skyfox Gazelle ZK-PNB now sports bigger tyres ..read more

 The Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee B ZK-CIQ c/n 25-3128 was imported by Airwork (NZ) Ltd of Christchurch in April of 1965 and signed over to Aerial Farming of NZ Ltd of Palmerston North from 13-07-1965.Photo above from Ray Deerness shows it at Feilding on 12-02-1966. Then James Aviation Ltd of Hamilton listed it on 09-12-1968. The photo above is tagged as taken in 1973 but it is still in its James Aviation scheme and it had been re-listed to the Nelson Gliding Club from 20-05-1970. A Bob Kerr photo at Omaka on 18-02-1978. It still retains part of the James Aviation insignia below the cockpit ..read more

Allister Jenks has seen this Eurocopter EC 130 B4 ZK-IWS multiple times over several weeks on the Wellington Waterfront.  It seems to have taken over duties from the aptly-lettered ZK-IWN that has been plying trade there for a long time. So either IWN is out for maintenance, or this machine is now assigned to Wellington ?  ZK-IWS is  c/n 4041 and was test flown in France as F-WWXI prior to going to Canada to become  C-GSDA with Eurocopter Canada Ltd at Fort Erie, Quebec. It went on to serve with Great Slave Helicopters Ltd and its subsidiaries until cancelle ..read more

                        On a typical Christchurch autumnal day sits the C17A Globemaster III 08-8202. Over at the Canterbury Aero Club was the Piper PA-28-181 Archer II ZK-EIP c/n 28-7990065. This joined the Club in February of 1979 and remained there until sold to EIP Ltd of Christchurch in November 2014.  If I recall correctly, it received this new colour scheme late in 2020. The Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk ZK-JHO c/n 38-82A0121 is - as you can see from its c/n - is a 1982 build which went new to the Republic of Singapore F ..read more

Over the weekend prior to Warbirds Over Wanaka the re-scheduled 2024 RAANZ flyin took place at Hokitika.  It was a low key affair and I have not been able to find anyone who took photos, but Wally Pendray flew down from Whitianga and he took some video of the flyin from which I took the following screenshots: In this view you can see Wally Pendray's Pelican ZK-MAL2 from Whitianga, Craig Buist's SeaRey ZK-WET3 from Dunedin, Willy Morton's A 32 Vixxen ZK-VLW from Kawakawa and Neil and Sarah Colliver's Vans RV 10 ZK-RVT from Feilding.  Then in the front are Lyall Hopgood's new Bri ..read more

 Roving reporter CMM called in to the Springfield Estate on Sunday the 14th and captured the following aircraft. ZK-SAT, c/n 402B-0990, is an Air Tractor AT-402B built at Olny, Texas, and test flown as N1010Y before shipping to New Zealand for assembly at Kairanga. It was registered on 05-12-1995 to Don Hart who trades as Skyfarmers Ltd out of the Springfield Estate near Methven. The original Pratt & Whitney PT6A-15AG engine was replaced with a -34 engine and ownership transferred to Skyfarmers Aviation Ltd on 01-07-2013. The Cessna 180K Skywagon ZK-DBA2 c/n 18053022 as listed with ..read more