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Saturday, July 24, 2010

A Fokker and a Cessna

Just a quick visit to the club today before heading out to pretend to be a computer geek for a couple of hours...

The most interesting sighting was this Fokker F27-500 Friendship, ZK-PAX. This is registered to Airwork Flight Operations and is commonly used to carry the mail around New Zealand overnight. In this case, it is being towed into a Vincent Aviation maintenance hanger [I'm not sure what the reason is]. I vaguely recall flying on one of these from Wanganui to Taupo and Auckland many, many years ago.

The second aircraft is an Air2There Cessna 208 Caravan, ZK-MYH. This was parked up outside the aero club for a while.

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3 comments:

  1. Andrew25 July 2010 at 20:13

    Hi Rodney

    I've done plenty of hours in NAC/ANZ Friendships, though always down the back unfortunately (apart from one visit to the cockpit in flight, not likely to happen these days!).

    I don't think PAX was ever in the NAC/ANZ fleet; their regos were ZK-BXx and ZK-NAx. Info at
    http://www.dave.wise.btinternet.co.uk/DWZKP.htm
    and
    http://www.airlinercafe.com/photo_4384.details.large

    Cheers,
    Andrew

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  2. Rodney25 July 2010 at 20:53

    Thanks Andrew... looks like a combination of bad info combined with the CAA website being down at the time...have removed that comment from the blog...

    Also, thanks for the registration website - very helpful!

    Cheers,

    Rodney

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  3. Andrew3 August 2010 at 23:55

    Hi Rodney

    This might be more of a question for the guys over at the excellent civil aircraft blog http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/.

    But are this and ZK-POH the only F27s on the New Zealand register that aren't ex NAC/ANZ or the old Department of Civil Aviation?

    Without doing a lot of research I can think of Airwork/NZ Post and RNZAF as operators; any others?

    Cheers,
    Andrew

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