Vaughn Davis bought his lovely newly restored Chipmunk ZK-CHP3 up to Kaipara Flats airfield today:
You can remind yourself of its history HERE
A blog on New Zealand Civil Aircraft.
Vaughn Davis bought his lovely newly restored Chipmunk ZK-CHP3 up to Kaipara Flats airfield today:
You can remind yourself of its history HERE
Phillip Evers-Swindell of Pahiatua then picked it up from December 1981.Two views of it at New Plymouth on 05-08-1985 with a cargo pannier fitted.Richmond Harding of Wanganui then took it over from 19-08-1988.
Then we see Tony Mackle of Richmond listed from 17-07-1991. Tony also had the 180 ZK-BJB (and retains it to this day). Tony then picked up the Cessna 180B ZK-BMW and ZK-DXW went to Giotto Holdings (P Higgins and W Denholm) at Rotorua from 11-06-1994.Above. Spotted at Wanaka on 16-02-1996 with the upward hinging door.
White Island Airways also of Rotorua were next to operate it from 17-02-2002.18-08-2003 Christchurch
Its next move was to Gisborne for Farmers Air 2002 Ltd from 05-11-2004. They had a name change to Aerospread Ltd from 24-08-2011 followed by an address change to Napier from 17-02-2012.
Current owner Viking Partnership of Russell came aboard from 30-08-2023.Above ZK-DXW as seen on the 27th of April as part of the Cessna 180/185 flyin at Manuka Point which is at the junction of the Mathias and the Rakaia Rivers. A Matt Hayes photo.
There was a very good turn out of aircraft at the Feilding Open Day including these mostly locals:
Thanks for the photos Jordan and Dave.
The Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 c/n 759 was built by Intreprinderea de Reparatii Material Aeronautic (IRMA) of Bucharest, Romania as G-BCZD and finished at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. This included conversion to -21 standard with the 300hp Lycoming IO-540-K1B5 engines and with an air ambulance internal fit out for demonstrator duties with Britten-Norman (Bembridge) Ltd from 18-03-1975.
The photo below shoes it in its 'raw' state at Gatwick in 1975 following delivery from Romania.
There was an open day at Feilding aerodrome on Saturday 27 May with a good attendance of aircraft. One that caught my eye was Gary Marsh's 75% scale replica Supermarine Spitfire Mk 25 ZK-RGV:
I thought it looked a little different and on comparison with older photos I discovered that there has been some major rework done on the engine cowling. If you compare it with the earlier photo below that was taken at Stratford in June 2019 you can see that it does not now have the lower scoop and this has been replaced by openings in the front either side of the spinner. Here Gary Marsh taxies in.I thought I would put up a few photos from Saturday, where the weather was - changeable! An earlier forecast was for fine but it changed the day before to showers:
Warwick Hamilton was out in the field near Tauranga today to capture these shots of Super Air's Air Tractor AT 502A at work:
Finally a sort of OK for flying Saturday today let me fly up to Dargaville for their every Saturday lunch:
A "new" one at Dargaville was the rebuilt Autogyro Europe Calidus Fern gyrocopter ZK-MZM, fresh off re-assembly by Brian Taylor. It was recently registered to Cloud 7 Aviation Ltd of Ruakaka. This gyro suffered an accident at Te Haroto on the Napier-Taupo Road on 31/12/21 and has been under extensive rebuild since.