Nil significant activity
Wednesday 01 July 2009
Poolhurst Pty Pilatus PC12/47E VH-VTF arrived at Auckland late afternoon direct from Brisbane. The aircraft is in NZ for the next two weeks carrying out demonstration flights.
Arriving at Auckland, John Mounce photo
Skyline Aviation's King Air 200 ZK-PLK made a trip from Hastings to the Chatham Islands and return today.
Luft Aviation Challenger 601 N360SL arrived at Auckland from its Melbourne/Essendon home where it share's a hanger with two other Luft Aviation aircraft, Challenger N360PL and Global Express N360LA.
1990 vintage Cessna Caravan I N165TC arrived at Auckland tonight nearing completion of its ferry flight from Florida via all stops including Hollister, Hilo, Christmas Island and Apia. After clearing formalities the Caravan, apparently on delivery to a Canterbury based parachute operation, flew across to Ardmore where it was observed over the coming days having work carried out on it.
At Ardmore 03Jul, Colin Hunter photo
Thursday 02 July 2009
Luft Aviation Challenger 601 N360SL returned to Essendon from Auckland.
Careflight Learjet 36 VH-CMS arrived at Auckland from Funafuti and prior to that the Gold Coast on a medivac flight.
Pilatus PC12 VH-VTF departed Auckland for Wellington, before making a return trip to Christchurch.
Friday 03 July 2009
Although I'm no longer reporting on local bizjet activity, a notable (of sorts) movement today was the arrival at the small Wellsford airstrip of Springhill of Citation Mustang ZK-MUS from Wellington. The VLJ (Very Light Jet) has visited the 870m x 10m sealed strip previously in January of this year.
Careflight Learjet 36 VH-CMS departed Auckland for the Gold Coast.
Pilatus PC12 VH-VTF flew from Wellington to Hastings where it conducted demonstration flights before returning to Wellington.
Saturday 04 July 2009
Pilatus PC12 VH-VTF made the short hop from Wellington to Omaka where it spent time before returning to Wellington.
Sunday 05 July 2009
Arriving during the early hours of this morning was yet another Careflight Learjet, this time their 45 series VH-CXJ from Port Vila, and prior to that the Gold Coast. It departed later the same day for Noumea and Sydney.
Monday 06 July 2009
Two corporate arrivals into Queenstown this afternoon, firstly with Walker Air Falcon 900C VH-LAL from Essendon followed a couple of hours later by Business Aviation Solutions Beechjet 400A VH-BZL from Sydney where it had started earlier in the day with a flight to/from Adelaide.
King Air 300 F-GICA arrived at Auckland early this afternoon from Noumea/Magenta.
Pacific Aerospace XL750 ZK-KAK was noted flying from Taupo to Kerikeri and was obviously set to embark on an international departure however made a southbound trip back to the factory at Hamilton before overnighting back at Taupo (see entry for 07Jul).
On the subject of XL750's, Kiwi Air's ZK-SWA was noted flying from Alice Springs to Perth/Jandakot today having flown from Goroka (PNG) to Horn Island the previous day. The aircraft has been employed in PNG for the past several months on seismic survey work.
Pilatus PC12 VH-VTF made a demo flight from/to Wellington today.
Air New Zealand/Eagle Air inaugurated services between Christchurch and Westport today using Beech 1900D ZK-EAJ for the first return trip in the morning followed by Beech 1900D ZK-EAP that evening. The service will operate twice on Mondays and Fridays only in conjunction with Solid Energy. The introduction of these services appears to signal the demise of Coast Air flying the route with their Cessna 404 Titan ZK-NDY however the fledgling carrier is now advertising daily Greymouth-Wellington services in the near future on their website.
http://www.coastair.co.nz/
Tuesday 07 July 2009
Pacific Aerospace XL750 ZK-KAK again departed Taupo early this morning for Kerikeri and then northbound to Norfolk Island.
