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A gaggle of jet movements to report having been noted over the last week:Skyline's Beechjet/Nextant 400XTi ZK-NXJ has made a couple of trips to the islands with a run from Auckland to Suva and back 08...
View ArticleOff Air
It is that time of year where the blog goes quiet - albeit for a slightly shorter period of time than on previous occasions so we will be back in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, we'll leave you...
View ArticleNZ's Fourth Citation Mustang delivered
New Zealand's Cessna 510 Citation Mustang population has grown to four with the arrival earlier this week of High Sierra Edition 2012 model VH-KJG c/n 510-0398. The very low timed jet arrived at...
View ArticleVirgin Australia visits Hawkes Bay Airport
Hawkes Bay/Napier airport hosted a Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 earlier this month with VH-YIQ arriving on a charter flight 23 July from Melbourne via Wellington as VOZ9014 (for the Tasman sector)...
View ArticleCirrus SR20 ZK-LDV exported
Whangarei based Cirrus SR20 ZK-LDV has been cancelled from the NZ register today as exported. Owner Lance Weller and his wife decided last year that they would return to Australia having moved to NZ in...
View ArticleFirst Timers
In addition to the earlier reported movements of Mustang VH-KJG, NZ had two first time visitors from Australia 29 July. Crown Casino have now taken delivery of the three Global Express they had ordered...
View ArticleRAAF Airbus A330MRTT A39-003 - First NZ visit
Royal Australian Air Force Airbus A330MRTT A39-003 made its first NZ visit earlier this week making a brief appearance at Auckland 28 July arriving from and returning to Amberley as ASY638. No doubt...
View ArticleBoeing 787-9 ZK-NZD
Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9 ZK-NZD entered commercial service 31 July with a flight from Auckland to Sydney as NZ103 returning later the same day as NZ104. The Dreamliner was delivered to Auckland on...
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015
As some of you twigged, I finally made the pilgrimage to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, after years of saying "I must go next year" and of course like many plans other things take priority. But this year...
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015 Part Two
A continuation of yesterday's post of phone camera snaps taken at last months air extravaganza.
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015 Part Three
Another bunch of snaps taken at Oshkosh last month on the trusty phone camera.
View ArticleGlobal 5000 N689WM
Global 5000 N689WM, operated by Malaysia based Wynton Group/Jet Aviation Flight Services Inc, arrived at Dunedin late morning 03 August direct from Bali. It is understood the passengers then caught a...
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015 Part Five
Ok, time to transition to images captured by the digital camera now in lieu of the iPhone. For convenience I've decided to share these simply in order taken instead of trying to sort them into...
View ArticleAir New Zealand Re-livery - whats what....
It was suggested a post be done to provide a review of which Air New Zealand aircraft now feature the Fern livery as unveiled on domestic Airbus A320 ZK-OXB in late September 2013.Since then a number...
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015 Part Six
The sheer volume of aircraft movements and the variety of types at Oshkosh has to be seen to be believed with multiple simultaneous operations being conducted across the venue. The vast myriad of...
View ArticleBoeing BBJ 9H-GGG takes flight!
Boeing BBJ 9H-GGG has taken flight from Christchurch for the first time since November 2013 conducting two test flights 05 August, firstly around the Canterbury coast before a second flight in the...
View ArticleBoeing 787-9 ZK-NZC
Soon to be delivered Boeing 787-9 ZK-NZC has exited the paintshop at Victorville, CA and returned to Paine Field, WA 05 August (local date) as BOE126 reflecting the aircraft's line number.Photo thanks...
View ArticleAirbus A320SL ZK-OXJ enters service
Air New Zealand's tenth sharklet equipped dedicated domestic Airbus A320 ZK-OXJ MSN 6694 entered service yesterday, 06 August, operating its first revenue service for the airline as NZ673 from Auckland...
View ArticleEAA Airventure Oshkosh 2015 Part Seven
Our arrival for this year's Oshkosh event was in the middle of the week and given the amount of aircraft stacked around the airport it must have been pretty much peak time for visitors especially in...
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