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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Mt Cook Airline new ATR72 arrives

Christchurch based Mt Cook Airline took delivery of their second ATR72-212A (-600) when
ZK-MVB (c/n 1065) arrived from Brisbane late on the morning of 30 December.  The delivery flight was contracted to Southern Cross International and the aircraft assigned SXI1288 as its callsign for the journey from Toulouse which staged via Alexandria, Al Ain, Nagpur, Penang, Seletar, Kosrae/Kupang and Brisbane.  The first legs were flown under its delivery markings, F-WKVB as seen in the first photo below when it was captured on arrival at Brisbane.  And then for its Tasman crossing ZK-MVB replaced the F markings.
 
ZK-MVB is the first aircraft to wear the new Air NZ livery of revised titles, black tail etc with the exception of Boeing 777-300ER ZK-OKP which also has the Hobbit decals therefore its change to the new livery is not as obvious!
 
We can expect to see ZK-MVB around the Mt Cook Airline network (NZ5xxx series flight numbers) from around mid January.



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