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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lions Tour of New Zealand - 2005

During June/July 2005 the British and Irish Lions toured NZ and whilst in the country they were transported on board Airwork's Boeing 737-300 ZK-SLA.  Two European based bizjets spent time in NZ supporting their team(s) including the first visit to NZ by a -800 series Boeing BBJ. 

Multiflight’s Boeing 737-BBJ2 G-OBBJ arrived at Auckland from Singapore 29 June and flew from Auckland to Wellington and return on July 02 for the second Lions/All Black rugby test. It remained static at Auckland until July 10 when it then departed for Singapore via a fuel stop at Darwin.


At Auckland 01 July 2005, MRC photo

Arriving Wellington 02 July 2005, NZAV8A photo
Avjet/Fitzwilton PLC Gulfstream 4 VP-CMR, like the BBJ mentioned above,arrived at Auckland 30 June from Darwin, and also flew from Auckland to Wellington and return on July 02.  From Auckland to Sydney on July 10, then after a few days in Australia to Pago Pago and Hawaii on July 16 before being noted flying from Burbank to Teterboro on July 19 (NZ time) where it was understood it was due to undergo a major refurbishment, however it has since been noted flying in Europe.  VP-CMR was previously operated by Harrods in the UK as G-HARF.
Departing Auckland 10 July 2005, MRC photo

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