Pacific Blue's 6th Boeing 737-800 arrived at Christchurch from Brisbane 01Nov in the form of VH-VUD which is set to become ZK-PBG. ZK-PBJ was noted outside the Air NZ maintenance facility in Christchurch awaiting the commencement of scheduled services in a few days time.
US Army Gulfstream 5/C32A 1944 departed Christchurch for Pago Pago and Hawaii.
Chilean Navy Lockheed P3A Orion 404 arrived at Safe Air's Woodbourne engineering facility late afternoon having arrived from Papeete and Wellington. The Chilean Orion's have received work through Air NZ in the past with 404 visiting Auckland during October 1997 where a major refit/overhaul was carried out.
Air NZ Boeing 747-400 ZK-NBW arrived into Auckland from Hong Kong as ANZ82 01Nov on completion of a C check with HAECO.