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Global 5000 A6-ACE
A rather interesting visitor to Hawkes Bay's Napier airport on the morning of 13 February was Execujet Middle East Global 5000 A6-ACE....
View ArticleBucket Air Show 2K15 Saint Barth
Not sure I'll tick this airport off my bucket list - however I did get pretty close last year! This is a neat video of some rather interesting visitors to this spectacular part of the Caribbean.Â
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Sunny Evening
A few weeks ago I had occasion to visit Auckland International in the late afternoon/early evening to drop someone off at the terminal. Thanks to chaotic road traffic conditions I elected to pull into...
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Piper PA31P ZK-WTH
New Zealand's one and only Piper PA31P-350 Mojave ZK-WTH has crossed the Tasman Sea on what maybe a delivery flight.The longtime Wanganui resident departed Palmerston North for Kerikeri 15 February and...
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Awesome shots from across the Pacific
Sincere thanks to Jonathan Rankin for sharing these fantastic images caputured from the open door of a Robinson R22 over Los Angeles back in November last year. As he stated in his email, its great...
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Corporate Corner
Gandel Group Global Express VH-TGG arrived in Queenstown 12 February from Essendon and it departed for Auckland and Essendon 14 February.Hinco Jet LLC Hawker 900XP N580RJ departed Napier for...
View Article"Riding the Booster" - YouTube video
Totally off the wall video with zero relevance to our normal subject matter but still cool to watch (I think!).
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Gulfstream G650 N650AB
Auckland based Gulfstream G650 N650AB flew to Wellington from Auckland 18 February arriving to a damp morning producing a moody backdrop for these fab shots as caught by Lanzi.
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A gaggle from Ardmore
A sunny Sunday afternoon at Ardmore wasn't as busy as I'd expected but if you wait long enough something of interest will come, or go. While registered to Stan Smith of North Shore, De Havilland DH83C...
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Tropical Cyclone Winston
Our thoughts this morning turn to the people of Fiji who overnight and throughout today are bracing themselves against potentially the most ferocious category 5 tropical cyclone to hit the islands.Fiji...
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NOTAR N778MH
Spotted at Nelson in recent days is the McDonnell Douglas 520 NOTAR N778MH (LN-077). The helicopter has been registered to Microseal Inc of New York since October 2015 and it spent the previous 18...
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Corporate Corner
Air Alsie Falcon 7X OY-EJD touched down in Auckland 17 February as "Mermaid 655" from Kona. The previous day the Falcon had made the long haul (almost 13 hr flight)  from Keflavik to Kona. The tri-jet...
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French President visits Wallis and Futuna
We seldom hear of the French protectorate islands of Wallis and Futuna located some 480km northeast of Fiji. However this week the small nation hosted the second visit of a French President when...
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Fire Bombers!
Last weekend the four heavy fire bombers stationed at Avalon, near Melbourne, were put in the air to test their dropping equipment much to the delight of local aviation enthusiasts. A big shout of...
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Boeing BBJ N260DV
Alticor/Amway/RDV Leasing Boeing 737-7HT (BBJ) N260DV touched down at Auckland on the morning of 23 February from Grand Rapids, CO via a techstop at Honolulu. The BBJ was on the ground for a little...
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Gulfstream 4 N772AV
Journey Aviation LLC Gulfstream 4 N772AV touched down at Auckland early on the afternoon of 24 February from Melbourne carrying musician and singer Prince for his first ever visit to New Zealand. The...
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Corporate Corner
It has been a busy few days around the traps with a number of jets flitting here and there.Locally based Citation Mustang ZK-LCA was spotted flying from Hastings to Woodbourne and back 24 February and...
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Pacific Island visitors
Coral Sun Aviation Beech 200 King Air T3-JMR has been in the country since late 2015 and has spent most of its time at Hamilton and more recently Ardmore.Air Rarotonga Saab 340 E5-EFS has concluded its...
View ArticleFox Moth ZK-AGM revisited
In August last year we shared some images of the recently restored to flight DH83 Fox Moth ZK-AGMÂ http://mrcaviation.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/fox-moth-zk-agm.htmlA video has since been uploaded to Vimeo...
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Demonstrators
Cessna demonstrator Cessna 182T N517CS up sticks and crossed the Tasman earlier this week. It was imported to New Zealand for the purposes of being a demonstrator with locally based Flightline...
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