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Casa in the Capital
Overnight 12 December Wellington hosted French Armee de L'air Casa 235 52-IC/65 with the transporter arriving direct from Noumea as "Cotam 1161". It departed late morning 13 December for Norfolk Island...
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Falcon 7X B-8203
Shenghong Group's Falcon 7X B-8203 touched down at Auckland late afternoon 12 December arriving from Shanghai via a techstop at Cairns as "Deerjet 502".First visit to our shores by this 2013 edition...
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Jetstar Boeing 787-8 Seasonal NZ services
As of 14 December, Jetstar have reintroduced the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to select services through Auckland on a seasonal basis to cater for summer demand. VH-VKJ operated the first flights as JQ195...
View ArticleGulfstream G550 N540W
Harpo Inc (aka Oprah Winfrey) Gulfstream G550 N540W touched down at Auckland on the evening of 13 December from Sydney carrying the widely acclaimed talkshow host to her first ever New Zealand visit.
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Boeing 737-400 ZK-PAK enters service
Seasonal freight demand saw Airwork Flight Operations recently delivered Boeing 737-400 freighter ZK-PAK enter service on the afternoon of 15 December flying from Auckland to Christchurch as "Post 73"...
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Airbus A319CJ 9H-AVK departs
Comlux Malta's Airbus A319CJ 9H-AVK departed Auckland mid morning 16 December for Sydney as MLM26 following the ACDC rock concert held at Western Springs the previous night. Its arrival into Sydney...
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Air New Zealand introduced Houston, Texas to its route network from 15 December operating Boeing 777-200ER's five times per week from Auckland operating as NZ28 northbound and NZ29 southbound. NZ28 is...
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Lineage N666GL departs
Chinese based Embraer E190 Lineage N666GL concluded its New Zealand visit departing from Queenstown for Christchurch and Bali 16 December. The jet had arrived at Auckland from Saipan 08 December and...
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RAAF Boeing BBJ visits Christchurch
Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 737 BBJ A36-002 spent several hours at Christchurch earlier this week when it carried Australian Senator and Defence Minister Marise Payne to a meeting with NZ Defence...
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China Southern Airlines to Christchurch
China Southern Airlines commenced regular scheduled services to Christchurch utlising Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners flying three times per week direct from Guangzhou. The first flight arrived at...
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Gulfstream G550 N540W departs
Harpo Inc (Oprah Winfrey) Gulfstream G550 N540W departed Auckland 17 December for Nadi.The aircraft's personalised registration alludes to the Oprah's year of birth - 1954 - and the 0W, her initials...
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Challenger 604 HB-JRB - UPDATED
REGA Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger 604 HB-JRB arrived at Christchurch on the evening of 18 December from Zurich via Zahedan (Iran), Abul Aziz Shah (Kuala Lumpur) and Cairns.REGA operate three...
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White and Black
A brief visit to Auckland International 18 December netted a trio of aircraft that were of interest to me. First up was the arrival at the heliport located adjacent to the international terminal...
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Pilatus PC12 ZK-TIL - update in italics
Pilatus PC12 ZK-TIL was imported to New Zealand in August 2013 and was a first of type when it entered the New Zealand register. It arrived from Australia as VH-ZBD and after several local flights...
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Piper PA28RT ZK-LGL
Piper PA28RT-201T ZK-LGL was spied crossing the Tasman Sea 20 December. Most recently registered to Excalibur Trust of Ohope (east of Whakatane), the Turbo Arrow departed Kerikeri for Norfolk Island,...
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Christmas Delivery - Operation Christmas Drop 2015
This year's Operation Christmas Drop included participants from the Japanese Air Self Defence Force and Royal Australian Air Force who provided a Lockheed C130J Hercules.Some fantastic coverage in the...
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Global 6000 N283DM
Arriving at Auckland 22 December was Vista Equity Partners Global 6000 N283DM. The jet, using the callsign "Twilight 66", arrived from Maui having arrived a couple of days earlier from Austin, TX.Also...
View ArticleMighty Boeing 727 landing on dirt airstrip
Thanks to Tim G for passing on the link to this interesting compilation of video taken a few blue moons ago but well worth a look!
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Merry Christmas
To our friends, contributors and followers - We wish you a very Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful holiday season with family and friends.Thank you for your support and encouragement and most...
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Mt Cook Airline ATR72-600's - updated
A trio of Mt Cook ATR72-212A (600 series) have been added to the ZK register in recent days ahead of their delivery flights to Australasia.First off the blocks from Toulouse was MSN 1299 registered...
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