Classic Flyer

This summer Air Chathams' Douglas DC-3 ZK-AWP is doing scenic flying from a few North Island airports... Already it has been doing flights from Tauranga, Whakatane and Whanganui and it is due to fly at the Art Deco weekend at Napier on the weekend of 17-18 February...Booking details can be found here...

Updating the airline profiles

Every now and then someone either sends me or I manage to acquire a new photo to illustrate a post...  I am always grateful for new material enabling a better historical record.Over the last little while I have received some great new photos which I was delighted to get.The first was a photo of DH Dominie ZK-BCP at Hokitika while operating the Mount Cook Airlines' service between Fox, Franz and...

Taupo on Thursday

A visit to Taupo on 25 January 2018 scored the following pictures...Visiting was Air Napier's Piper PA31 Navajo ZK-NPR. It is sporting a new script for its Air Napier titles. Helicopter Services BOP's Robinson 66 ZK-IHT was returning from a spraying missionA bit of  a fluke catching the two...

SDC in Service

Now in service for Barrier Air is there new Cessna Grand Caravan ZK-SDC... Thanks to AgAirNZ who caught it at Auckland on 27 January 2018.I look forward to the wind turning westerly so its worth coming up to Auckland to photograph it myse...

Two I was after as I left the South Island...

I was delighted to finally get a decent shot of Originair's BAe Jetstream 32 ZK-ECI at Nelon on 24 January 2018 on its way to Palmerston North.I was also hoping to get Pelorus Air's Cessna 206 ZK-ENT and so I was delighted to find it at Nelson the same day.The day before Evektor-Aertechnik Sportstar...

New Registrations

New Zealand's three newest airliners have been placed on the New Zealand civil aircraft register...Air Chathams' Saab-Scania SAAB SF340A, N135GU (c/n 340A-135) has become ZK-CIYAir Chathams' Saab Aircraft AB SAAB 340B, N357GU (c/n 340B-357) has become ZK-CIZBarrier Air's Cessna 208B Grand...

Which colour scheme???

One wonders whether Barrier Air will adopt a standard scheme....So which colour scheme would you choose for Barrier Air to adopt as seen on their two Caravans... ... beige or white or something else...

Watching no more - It's Arrived!!!

Arriving into Auckland today was Cessna 208B Grand Caravan N2057 which this blog has been monitoring as it flew across States and the Pacific on its delivery flight...To find out where it is going check out this post from last year...  http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2017/11/cryptic-clue...

LGC flies again

Ex Great Barrier Airlines' BN Trislander ZK-LGC is flying again having been cancelled from the register in June 2016...ZK-LGC at North Shore on 12 March 2013It is now flying for Roraima Airways in Guyana, South America as 8R-GRE. Photo by Gerry Gouveia on the ‎Britten-Norman Aircraft Preservation Society...

Westport Last Weekend

Thanks to Jarden who sent these pics of Sounds Air's Pilatus PC12 and the Westport terminal taken on Sunday the 14th of January 2...

Watching 6

Getting closer...

Watching 5

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West Coast Last Week

From a plane spotting perspective it was a pretty disappointing trip to home country last week... Lousy weather elsewhere in the country, then lousy weather on the Coast meant there were no visitors. And what with family obligations I didn't get much time to check all the heliports...However I did bike...