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RNZAF Black Falcons
Gavin Conroy from Classic Aircraft Photography had the pleasure of flying with the recently formed Royal New Zealand Air Force Beechcraft Texan II formation team, the Black Falcons. The nine ship...
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Royal Australian Air Force Boeing 737 Wedgetail A30-003 made a two night visit to New Zealand last week. Using the callsign ASY259, the AEW&C configured aircraft arrived in Whenuapai late 07...
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Diamond Delivery
Diamond Aircraft DA42 Twin Star PlatinumN121TS has recently arrived in New Zealand with the light twin touching down in Auckland 06 December concluding its Trans Pacific delivery flight from Merced/CA...
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Boeing 767-319ER ZK-NCL - update
Ex Air New Zealand Boeing 767-319ER ZK-NCL, now registered TF-ISW with Icelandair, departed its medium term storage in Alice Springs 11 December destined for Xiamen, China as ICE6767. Meanwhile, ,...
View Article88th Emirates A380 enters service
Emirates 88th Airbus Airbus A380, A6-EUK, has entered service with its first revenue flight being EK412 from Dubai to Sydney and Christchurch arriving 12 December. The aircraft, configured as...
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Vale ex Air Nelson Metroliner ZK-NSI
Ex Air Nelson Fairchild-Swearingen SA227-AC Metroliner III ZK-NSI MSN AC765B was involved in a fatal accident last week when it crashed while conducting a freight flight near Albany-Southwest...
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Extra Festive Freight Capacity
Parcel Air has drafted in fellow Airwork-owned Boeing 737-400 freighter ZK-TLL from Toll in Australia to provide additional capacity for their domestic jet cargo operation supplementing ZK-PAK, ZK-PAQ...
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Surveillance Australia Dash 8-202Q VH-LCL - updated with link
Dash 8-202Q VH-LCL has concluded its NZ deployment having flown some seven survey flights from Christchurch up along the Kaikoura coastline mapping the effects of the November earthquake. The Dash...
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Air Calin Airbus A330-200 F-OHSD
New Caledonia's national airline Air Calin operated Airbus A330-200 F-OHSD to Auckland on the morning of 17 December to cover for an unservicable Airbus A320. The widebody airliner arrived from Noumea...
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Learjet 60XR M-IGHT
Having been delivered to its Rotorua owner Mikro Aviation in mid August this year, Learjet 60XR M-IGHT has been relatively low profile so it was pleasing to finally catch up with it in person when it...
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NZ Warbirds BE 2e ZK-PXA
As featured in recent months on the NZ Civil Aircraft blog : -...
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Global 6000 ZS-TDF
It has been unseasonably quiet for corporate jets so far this summer so it was great to see the arrival of Global 6000 ZS-TDF in Wellington late morning 20 December from Kansai as "Optima 2". The...
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Agusta A109E VH-NPX
Ex Royal Australian Navy Agusta A109E VH-NPX has been resident with Heliflite's Ardmore team since at least mid April this year.Thanks to www.adf-serials.com - N42-505 c/n 11505 - previous I-LAON and...
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Tianjin Airlines inaugurate NZ services
Tianjin Airlines inaugurated its thrice weekly Airbus A330-200 service from Tianjin via Chongqing as GS7957 as from 22 December with brand new B-8776 arriving almost 10 hours later than scheduled...
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Air Rarotonga's Citation arrives in NZ
Air Rarotonga's Cessna C550 Citation II VH-FOJ (to become E5-TCM) has arrived in New Zealand for certification prior to its entry to service with the Cook Island airline operating as Pacific Private...
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Corporate Corner 08-24 December 2016
Gandel Aviation Global Express VH-TGG departed Christchurch 08 December for Te Anau/Manapouri and after a few hours on the ground it flew north to Auckland. It then headed to Rotorua 09 December and...
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Merry Christmas!
MRC Aviation would like to extend our sincere best wishes for a very Merry Christmas to all our followers across the world-wide web and thank you for the support and encouragement during 2016.
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Eurocopter EC120B VH-NMI / ZK-IHV
Delivered by sea just last week is this tidy Eurocopter EC120B MSN1016. It arrived as VH-NMI and was flown from the Ports of Auckland to Ardmore 14 December and has since taken up the marks ZK-IHV with...
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Maho Magic
Given its fairly quiet this side of New Year in our neck of the woods we are delighted to be able to share these magic shots of recent activity from the magic location of Maho Beach, St Maartens. This...
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