Corporate Corner

A couple of bizjet movements in recent days to mention.

Firstly, the FAA Challenger 601 N86 has returned to Christchurch at the conclusion of its duties in Antarctica.

Execujet NZ’s Gulfstream 550 ZK-KFB made a brief appearance at Auckland 29 October on its way from Wellington to Hong Kong.

Also associated with Hong Kong is this Challenger 605 B-LOL.  It arrived at Auckland 29 October from Sydney and has been in Australia for a few days now having arrived at Perth on the 22nd from Kota Kinabalu and having since visited Melbourne, Sydney and Hamilton Island.

Alcoa Global Express N264A flew from Auckland to Wellington 28 October and then to Taupo the next afternoon.  (first three photos of it arriving at Wellington and the last shot on arrival at Taupo).

Airscapade DC3 inbound NZ!

Douglas DC3 N451ZS "The Jean Batten Clipper" has embarked on its journey from the UK to NZ retracing (as best they can) the route flown by Jean Batten. 

They are expected to make landfall at Auckland around 14 November and their travels can be followed at

http://www.dc3-antipodes.com/.

The accompanying photos of N451ZS prior to departure from London Ashford Airport / Lydd.

All photos supplied and copyright, with thanks to J Lester

Seldom seen BBJ arrive in Wellington

Russian based Petroff Air Boeing 737-7JF (BBJ)  P4-LIG arrived at Wellington mid afternoon 28 October from Hong Kong.
http://www.petroffair.ru/en/

For anyone interested, it is currently listed for sale here!

Thanks to Lanzi for these great shots of her arriving at Wellington.

 

Photos copyright



Flying DH Mosquito KA114

Oh Boy!

Thanks very much to Gavin Conroy of Classic Aircraft Photography for providing these fab shots taken on 26 October from the back seat of Spitfire ZK-WDQ (pictured).

http://capphotography.ifp3.com/#/page/home/

Global Express N264A

Alcoa/Suntrust Leasing Corp of Pittsburgh, PA Global Express N264A (9064) jetted into Auckland early on the morning of 27 October from Honolulu.

Last Scheduled International Flight for Hamilton (NZHN)

Following Virgin Australia’s announcement in mid August this year, the airline operated its final services through Hamilton 26 October with Boeing 737-800 ZK-PBD arriving in the early hours of Saturday morning from Brisbane as DJ86 and departing again a few hours later as DJ85 back to Brisbane.

International services at Hamilton started with Kiwi International in 1994 who initially conducted a series of charter services and from April 1995 scheduled operations ran through until September 1996. 

K2000 operated Trans-Tasman flights from Hamilton in December 1999 to January 2000.

Freedom Air International provided Trans-Tasman and Pacific Island flights from December 1995 until April 2008 when parent company Air New Zealand took over after Freedom Air was wound up.  The Air New Zealand services concluded in April 2009 in favour of flights through Rotorua.

Pacific Blue, later to be branded Virgin Australia, began services on 1 September 2009 initially with three flights a week to Sydney and four per week to Brisbane but this was quickly scaled back and only Brisbane was serviced.  The first flight was conducted by Boeing 737-800 ZK-PBJ.

More Mossie Magic

26 October dawned fine and clear with light winds, perfect for air-to-air photography.  The New Plymouth based Vampire ZK-RVM arrived at Ardmore from its home town mid morning and photographer Gavin Conroy arrived from down country and set up in the Spitfire ZK-WDQ.  The Spitfire took off first followed by the Mosquito and Vampire for the air-to-air sortie over Waiheke Island, the Auckland CBD and out towards Orere Point before returning to Ardmore.

Agusta Bell 212 P2-IHP

Being readied at Ardmore 26 October for its departure to Papua New Guinea was AB-212 P2-IHP ex ZK-IIJ.   It was on the ZK register from 06 April 2011 until yesterday when it was cancelled as exported. 

Impressive........or oh my goodness........

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c1_1350976434

Global 5000 N755RA

Global 5000 N755RA, registered to Asia Aviation Co Pte Ltd of Singapore/Seletar departed Auckland 24 October for Adelaide. 
Thanks to Aircraft Services for these shots showing clearly the detail on the Global.

Honos Et Officium Familia
Honour And Duty for The Family

Philippine 001

As previously mentioned, Philippine Airlines Airbus A330-301 RP-C3333 has been in the country as transport for the country’s President who spent several hours in Wellington 23 October arriving from Auckland and departing just before 11pm for Canberra.

Corporate Movers

There were a few corporate jet movements around the country 23 October with Falcon 2000EX N818BH arriving at Wellington from Auckland and Global 5000 N755RA arriving at Auckland from Sydney.  In addition local Global Express XRS N18WZ arrived at Auckland from Honolulu while Falcon 7X G-SVNX departed Auckland for Kailua-Kona.  Rounding out the days activity was Citation Mustang ZK-LCA noted flying from Queenstown to Auckland and Hastings.

Mount Cook’s ATR72-600 readies for delivery

As noted on various websites and social media outlets, Mount Cook Airline is set to take delivery of their first ATR72-600 series 68 seater with ZK-MVA kitted out in France wearing the “All Black” colour scheme as shown below.  The aircraft, currently registered F-WWEJ c/n 1051, is expected to arrive in Christchurch around 06 November from Toulouse via 6 stop overs and should enter service 15 November. 

And as this blog was posted, the ATR had just concluded its first flight and was wearing its ZK markings, see here and here.

Antarctic Support Update

There has been a number of C17 visitors through Christchurch in recent days.
96-0005 arrived 19 October from Hickam as “Reach 6E4” and departed back to Hickam the following evening.
09-9212 arrived 20 October from Hickam as “Reach 6E5” and is now the resident Globemaster while 09-9209 departed the same evening for Hickam as “Reach 6E5”.  09-9192 flew its first mission south on 23 October.
01-0188 arrived 21 October from Hickam as “Reach 5E2”.




FAA Challenger 601 N86 departed Christchurch for Antarctica 21 October while the Safair C130 flew to Terra Nova Bay and back 23 October.

Philippines Airbus A330-300

Philippines Airlines Airbus A330-301 RP-C3333 arrived at Auckland 22 October from Manila as “Philippines 01” carrying the nation’s President Benigno S Aquino and a large delegation to New Zealand and Australia.  By the time this is read the A330 will have flown to Wellington where it expected to remain until late this evening before heading to Australia.

Premier Jets Learjet 36A N363PJ

Portland based Premier Jets are regular visitors to the Pacific providing aero medical transfers on behalf of a number of health insurance providers.  This example, Learjet 36A N363PJ, arrived at Hamilton 22 October from Portland/Hillsboro via Honolulu and Pago Pago and departed this morning back to Pago Pago repatriating a motor vehicle accident victim.