More of those "different visitors"

What follows are 4 photos of the chartered aircraft that arrived yesterday, departing with their passengers.

The first is Cessna 404 Titan, ZK-NDY, registered to Ashburton Air Services. The second is an Air Chathams General Dynamics 440/580 Convair, registration ZK-CIF.

The last is an Airwork Boeing 737-219C, ZK-NQC. This aircraft has a fair amount of history in New Zealand, first arriving in 1982 registered to Air New Zealand [and without the hush-kit on the engines!]. In 2001 it was re-registered to Airwork Flight Operations, where it remains. I'm not sure how many cycles or hours it has, but it is rumoured to be one of the highest-time B737's in the world - not surprising considering it has at least 28 years of service. This aircraft is used for both passenger charters, as well as regular night-time freight runs [as can be seen by the Courier Post titles on the tail].

Some different visitors today

Arriving at the airport today I was greeted with the sight of several infrequent visitors on the aero club apron area. In addition, a Convair had pulled up, a Canadair CL600 Challenger arrived and an Airwork B737-200QC was offloading passengers on the other side of the airport. I'm not certain, but a Metroliner may have been here also.

It appears that a number of aircraft had been chartered by a single organisation to ferry people to Wellington [and other places during the preceding week].

Some of the pictures I got follow. Top to bottom are:

Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain, ZK-VIP, registered to Air West Coast of Greymouth

Cessna 402C, ZK-VAD, registered to Ridge Air of Blenheim

Cessna 404 Titan, ZK-NDY, registered to Ashburton Air Services

Canadair CL600 Challenger, N604AU, registered to ANZA Aviation NA LLC of a USA address

General Dynamics Convair 440/580, ZK-CIF, registered to Air Chathams