Visits to Kapiti and Wanganui Aero Clubs

This past weekend I went up to Whanganui. On the way there I popped into Kapiti Aero Club for a brief "hello", followed by some time at Wanganui Aero Club.

Kapiti Aero Club is based at the airport in Paraparaumu and has a core fleet of 5 Cessna 152's [from memory, 3 aerobats] plus some C172's and  a few other aircraft. The visit was brief,  but I was shown around the site, including into one of their very tidy and well presented C152's.

Here are a couple of pictures from Kapiti Aero Club.

Cessna 152's, ZK-ELS, ZK-JEN and others, operated by Kapiti Aero Club

Cessna A152, ZK-ELS, operated by Kapiti Aero Club

Most of the weekend was spent in Whanganui and I did have a couple of visits out to the Wanganui Aero Club [more on these visits in later posts], but here are the core of the Club's training fleet.

Piper PA38-112, ZK-FRS, operated  by Wanganui Aero Club

Cessna A152, ZK-JDB, operated by Wanganui Aero Club

Cessna 172S, ZK-RQA, operated by Wanganui Aero Club

Flying competition - various aircraft - 1

Here are some of the various competition-related aircraft at Wanganui for the regionals. Top to bottom are:

Cessna A152, ZK-ELC, registered to Helipro of Paraparaumu
Maule MXT-7-180, ZK-JQY, registered to a Wanganui address
Cessna A150M, ZK-EHP, registered to a Marton address
Piper PA38-112, ZK-FRS, registered to Wanganui Aero Club
Cessna 182T, ZK-TOT, registered to a Paraparaumu address
AESL Airtourer 115, ZK-CWA, registered to a Napier address
Piper PA22-108, ZK-MEJ, registered to a Palmerston North address

Flying NZ "Cook area" regional comps: Post 3 - more grid photos

Given that the grid is such an important part of competition day, I thought I would include a few more pictures from the grid. Unfortunately I didn't get photos of every aircraft as I was running back and forth between the grid and the aero club buildings with people, results and the like.

You'll see in the photos that it was a lovely [hot] day - thank goodness for lots of sunscreen and some shelter!

Anyway, here are a few that I did get. Top to bottom are:

Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk, ZK-FJS, registered to Air Hawkes Bay

Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk, ZK-FRS, registered to Wanganui Aero Club going around

Piper PA38-112 Tomahawk, ZK-FML, registered to Wellington Aero Club

and... lastly... a local Pacific Aerospace Cresco 08-600, ZK-WAT, registered to Wanganui Aero Work [and not flying in the comps!]

Oh yeah - there were a large percentage of Tomahawks at the comps, 9 out of around 25 aircraft.