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Saturday, September 18, 2010

ZK's Abroad

A significant number of aircraft are currently domiciled abroad, mostly earning their keep in a commercial capacity. The following is a brief outline of what I know of and I'd appreciate feedback to amend/correct/add to these details!

Agusta 119 Koala ZK-ISR is touring Europe at present and seems to be operating from the super yacht "Senses". It was photographed at Durban in December last year, Norwich, UK in June this year, Riga, Latvia and Liege, Belgium last month. It is registered to owners in Tauranga.

At Ardmore soon after its delivery in January 2009, MRC photo

Cessna 206 ZK-JAO departed NZ in February of this year and was subsequently noted carrying out parachute operations from Coffs Harbour. It arrived at Camden near Sydney in May and has been struck of the NZ register as "revoked".

At Ardmore October 2009, MRC photo

Wingnut/Execujet Gulfstream 550 ZK-KFB is based at Melbourne/Essendon.

Arriving at Auckland June 2010, Wayne Grant photo

Cessna 421 ZK-LOY departed NZ 14 Sep 2006 on an around the world trip and flew in an easterly direction as far as Male in the Indian Ocean where it appears to have been resident for the last three years or so awaiting "attention"....
http://www.pbase.com/image/101612905


At Ardmore December 2005, MRC photo

Aerial Mapping Aero Commander 690 ZK-MOH departed from NZ May 2006 and has not returned! It has been noted operating through Africa and Europe.
http://www.nzam.com/article.asp?id=saudi_border

At Auckland February 2006, MRC photo

Citation Mustang ZK-MOT is resident at Sydney's Bankstown Airport and is for sale having been replaced by a brand new example, ZK-MUS.

Leaving Auckland March 2010, MRC photo

Aerial Mapping Cessna 402 ZK-PVC flew from Auckland to Norfolk Island in early June this year and later continued to Fiji.

MRC photo

Auckland based Airwork operate 3 ZK registered Boeing 737-300 freighters in Australia and to the Pacific Islands of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands on behalf of Toll Holdings.

ZK-TLA arriving at Auckland in September 2009, Wayne Grant photo

ZK-TLC departing Auckland in September 2007, John Rankin photo


ZK-TLD at Auckland in September 2010, Wayne Grant photo
Vincent Aviation have a large presence in Australia with a number of aircraft deployed from their Darwin hub primarily on the VH register. However in recent months Dash 8-102 ZK-VAC has been operating in Australia on charter flights for Air Cruising Australia.
At Wellington October 2005, Mike Condon photo

Also currently flying from Vincent's Darwin base is 1900C ZK-VAE having arrived in the Northern Territories in December 2009.

At Woodbourne August 2005, Mike Condon photo
In addition to the aircraft mentioned above, Air Chathams have aircraft operating in the Kingdom of Tonga as Chathams Pacific Airlines. Currently stationed out of Tonga is Metroliner ZK-CIC and Convair ZK-CIE along with Embraer 820C ZK-RDT which has recently undergone an ownership change back to its previous operator, Great Barrier Airlines.
Soundsair Caravan ZK-SAA is operating in the Northern Territories of Australia on lease to Kakadu Air.
Gisborne based Kiwi Air http://www.kiwiairltd.co.nz/ operate a large number of Pacific Aerospace 750XL's on survey work around the world.
The following is known to have departed NZ:
750XL ZK-FNZ ideparted May 2008
750XL ZK-JBC departed April 2006
750XL ZK-XLA currently in NZ
750XL ZK-XLB departed June 2008
750XL ZK-XLE currently in NZ
750XL ZK-SWA departed 2008
Cresco ZK-LTP departed June 2010
Reims/Cessna 406 ZK-XLF currently in NZ
Pacific Aerospace 750XL's also feature with parachute operators in Europe and have remained on the ZK register. These include:
ZK-JFM in Sweden and departed May 2008
ZK-JHM in Switzerland and departed March 2009
ZK-JGI in Sweden and departed June 2010 (after rebuild)
ZK-JQK in England and departed June 2005
ZK-KAY also in England and departed June 2004
Pacific Aerospace have 750XL ZK-KAK located in the Americas on demo duties with it having departed NZ back in September 2009.
Stevenson Skywork Kaman K-1200 ZK-HEE has been working in Australia and was noted in Western Australia during April 2009. Is it still abroad?
North Shore Helicopters Eurocopter EC130 ZK-IGM has, to my knowledge, never been to NZ and is a European resident.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Eurocopter-EC-130B-4-(AS-350B-4)/1411737/M/
Helicopters NZ often have helicopters overseas and the most recent departure was that of Bell 412 ZK-HVM which was noted at Mechanics Bay earlier this month and it has since been shipped to Australia and cropped up at Redcliffe near Brisbane.
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