Recent Activity

Arriving at Wellington mid morning direct from Singapore 07 October was Global Express OY-MSI registered to Execujet Scandinavia.  OY-MSI visited New Zealand back in December 2003.  Thanks again to Michael L for these wonderful shots of OY-MSI arriving at Wellington wearing the same livery worn in 2003 albeit with a temporary or yet to be re-painted engine cowling.

Normally domiciled at Darwin, Falcon 900C VH-PPD of Paspaley Pearling arrived at Auckland from Sydney 07 October.

W Grant photo

The arrival of these two aircraft adds to the two visitors already in the country,  Falcon 2000 VH-CRW at Napier and Citation X C-FNRG at Queenstown.

The Royal Australian Air Force deployed Boeing C17 A41-207 to Whenuapai 07 October with this machine arriving with the callsign "Ausy 616".  Media reports indicate it will head north on Monday:
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=63601

In addition to the C17,  RAAF C130 Hercules A97-011 visited Ohakea 05 October arriving from Richmond and departing for Samoa.

The recent loss of a NZDF SAS member has seen RNZAF Boeing 757-200 NZ7572 tasked with supporting the movement of family and personnel associated with his memorial and funeral services.

Departing Wellington 07 October, Michael L photo

Hawaiian Airlines have swapped aircraft at the Air NZ jet base with the arrival on the evening of 06 October from Honolulu of N582HA and the departure the following evening of N581HA back to Honolulu, however its departure was short lived with the aircraft returning a couple of hours after departure.

Jetcity's Learjet 36 VH-JCX departed from Auckland for Sydney 07 October having arrived the previous evening from Pago Pago.

On another note, a number of ex ZK aircraft departed Kerikeri for Norfolk Island on export today, check out  our sister blog : http://galonghaulnews.blogspot.com/2011/10/mass-exodus.html