Visiting Royal Australian Air Force Airbus KC30 MRTT A39-002 has visited the South Island this morning having departed Ohakea for Christchurch where a full stop landing was made. It then continued to Invercargill for an approach and overshoot of runway 22 then climbed to the north for a cruise passed the Queenstown region at altitude and then followed the spine of the Southern Alps to overhead Nelson and back Ohakea.
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| resting at Ohakea 14 March 2014, and the photos below taken on its return to Ohakea 15 March 2014. |





