Two jets made their first visits to Auckland 26 February.
Falcon 20F-5 VH-FAI arrived prior to sunrise having overnight flown from Sydney to Norfolk Island and Niue. It is expected to head back to Sydney later today.
VH-FAI is operated by Business Aviation Solutions and it was delivered to Australia in July 2014 arriving at Bankstown on the 6th. It joins another Falcon 20F-5 with Business Aviation Solutions, VH-PNY.
Rotorua's resident jet Citation Mustang ZK-JAK made its first visit to Auckland arriving mid morning from its home town. The Mustang is being operated on behalf of its owners under the Air Hawkes Bay banner and since its arrival late January it has been spotted at Wanganui, Tauranga, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
On the subject of first timers, Hawker 900XP VH-NKD made its first appearance this side of the Tasman when it spent a couple of hours at Auckland on the evening of 25 February. It is registered to CML Aviation and arrived from the Gold Coast via Essendon before heading to Sydney.
And another rare visitor to our shores was spotted at Wellington on the same evening with Revesco's Gulfstream 4 VH-TXS jetting in after dark from Sydney and departing a short time later for Perth. Its movements coincided with two Chinese based jets featured here earlier. Airbus A319 B-6435 had arrived Wellington 24 February from Christchurch and departed 25 February for Darwin and Hangzhou while Gulfstream G550 N999HZ arrived 25 February from Christchurch and departed for Hong Kong.
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| VH-TXS has only visited NZ once, back in October 2013. Above shot taken during its brief time at Wellington. |
Also around our skies have been Global Express VH-ICV and Gulfstream G550 N588PX, the latter arriving Wellington late morning 26 February from Melbourne and cruising onto Auckland the same day. The Global Express meanwhile flew from Queenstown to Auckland, back to Queenstown and onto Sydney 25 February then Sydney-Auckland-Sydney 26 February. Falcon 7X VH-CRW made a visit to Auckland 26 February, arriving from and returning to Napier while Gulfstream G650 N650AB made a round trip from Auckland to Queenstown and back.
