Air National's Westwind ZK-RML flew from Auckland to Pago Pago and return.
Rank's Global Express XRS N57LE departed Auckland late afternoon for San Diego.
Citation Mustang N2243W arrived at Dunedin from Hastings.
Citationjet CJ3 ZK-TBM flew for the first time in 6 weeks, making the short hop from Christchurch to Queenstown and back.
Citation 550 VH-CCJ departed Queenstown for Sydney and Brisbane.
Monday 15 September 2008
Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300 N598HA finally departed Auckland at 0021LT for Honolulu as HAL8840 following maintenance with Air NZ.
Falcon 900EXE N146EX left Auckland for Madang, Papua New Guinea.
Citation Mustang N2243W flew Dunedin to Hastings, then onwards to Auckland where it remained for much of the day before returning to Hastings.
Pratt Industries Global Express VH-VGX arrived at Auckland late morning from Essendon. It remained for just over three hours before heading back across the Tasman to Essendon.
Piper Malibu N9099Z was noted flying from Nelson to Rangiora.
Pionair Convair 580 VH-PAL flew from Christchurch to Invercargill and back as "Pionair 1".
Parked at Christchurch 14Sep, Tony McFarlin photo
Qantas' Boeing 747-300 fleet had a few maintenance glitches resulting in QF26 from Los Angeles to Auckland with VH-EBV running some 16+ hours late. As a result, their onwards service to Melbourne was cancelled. Nothing unusual in that however this aircraft usually does QF25 northbound again. Due to its cancellation, Qantas operated Airbus A330-300 VH-QPE on the QF25 Melbourne-Auckland leg with it then positioning back to Sydney as QF6026.
The two Japanese SDF P3 Orions where observed flying over the Auckland Harbour area late morning while French Army Casa 235 '105' overflew Auckland southbound from Whenuapai.
Gulfstream 4SP ZK-KFB arrived at California's Long Beach airport from Grenada via a brief stop at Fort Lauderdale.
