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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sunday 10 - Wednesday 13 August 2008

Sunday 10 August 2008
Virgin Blue Boeing 737-800 VH-VOH departed Christchurch for Brisbane following maintenance.

Falcon 900EX N146EX flew from Auckland to Madang, PNG.

Global Express XRS N57LE returned to Auckland from Nadi having flown north on Friday.

Citation 501 N800DT flew Dunedin to Whakatane then to Ardmore.

Monday 11 August 2008
Air NZ Boeing 747-400 ZK-NBT positioned to Hong Kong from Auckland as ANZ6081 for maintenance with HAECO.

Mustang N2243W flew Hastings to Christchurch, Dunedin and then over the reverse routing during the course of the day.

Piper Malibu N9099Z arrived back at Rangiora today from Pauanui and Ardmore.

Tuesday 12 August 2008
Royal Air Force Lockheed L1011 Tristar ZD950 touched down at Auckland late this afternoon from Honolulu as "Ascot 3666" on Exercise Longlook.

Microlight Jabiru J320-D VH-FTE completed the Tasman Sea part of its ferry flight today arriving at Kerikeri from Norfolk Island. It had flown into Norfolk from Bankstown via Lord Howe 11Aug.

Wednesday 13 August 2008
A busy day for visiting Australian bizjets, with two of them first time visitors.

Starting the flurry was Pelair Westwind VH-KNR making the hop from Sydney to Auckland and return. I'm sure its been here before, perhaps not in the livery depicted in Wayne Grant's photo taken early this morning.


Second arrival was that of Careflight's recently delivered Learjet 36 VH-CMS from Port Vila into Auckland just on midday. This machine, based on the Gold Coast, appears to have replaced Learjet 36 VH-JCX however this aircraft also seems to conduct medivac flights on the operators behalf so it can be a little confusing as to what aircraft is using the "Careflight 36" callsign. VH-CMS late Wednesday for the Gold Coast.


Lynden Aviation's Darwin based Citation 650 VII VH-LYM made its first NZ visit today arriving at Auckland from Sydney. The aircraft was delivered in April this year.

Royal Air Force Tristar ZD950 departed Auckland mid morning for Sydney.

Air National Gulfstream G200 ZK-RGB flew from Auckland to Espiritu Santo (Vanuatu) and return while company sistership Gulfstream 4SP ZK-KFB flew from Long Beach to Los Angeles.

North Shore based Beech G58 Baron N146WA flew from its home to Gisborne and back.