Continuing the busyness of the business jets around the country its time to review the last couple of days.
TPG Capital's Falcon 7X N817X touched down at Queenstown on the morning of 22 March from Honolulu while Air Alise Falcon 7X OY-JDE made its way from Nelson to Auckland arriving just before dusk that evening and departed at dawn 23 March for Oita on the island of Kyushu, Japan.
And of course Falcon 7X VH-CRW is still in the country and sitting at Napier.
Another Falcon arrived into the country 22 March with 900EX N127SF arriving at Woodbourne from Nadi and Auckland.
Jetcity Citation X VH-XCJ made an appearance at New Plymouth after dark 22 March, arriving from and later returning to Auckland. It went on to depart Auckland for Essendon 23 March.
| Auckland 22 March 2014. |
Another evening departure from Auckland 22 March was of Dyson's Gulfstream 650 G-ULFS with the jet heading to Hong Kong.
| Auckland 22 March 2014. |
The local bizjets were also on the move with Citationjet CJ4 ZK-PGA flying from Auckland to Rarotonga 22 March, Citation III N163JM spending time at Taupo also on 22 March arriving from and returning to Wellington, and Global Express XRS N18WZ arriving at Auckland before sunrise 23 March from Honolulu.
Long time absent local Falcon 900 N146EX arrived at Santa Ana/John Wayne Airport, California from Springfield, Illinois 22 March (USA date) having conducted a test flight from Springfield earlier in the week. The Auckland based tri-jet arrived at Springfield on 28 December and this extended downtime may indicate it will return home sporting winglets. Also Stateside for several weeks is Falcon 2000 N818BH however it appears this aircraft is also graviating towards home arriving at Maui 21 March (USA date) from Kamloops via Vancouver.