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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Skyline's Nextant 400XTi Arrives

In September 2014 Napier-based Skyline Aviation announced their intention to operate a Nextant 400XTi, a heavily modified Beechjet 400.
The 2014 blog post on the subject can be found HERE

The identity of the airframe in question has been up until recently unknown but thanks to public flight trackers we can confirm N111CX c/n RK-210 is the subject aircraft after it nosed out across the Pacific Ocean these last few days. It arrived at Honolulu from Merced 12 February and flew from Honolulu to Christmas Island, Pago Pago and Nadi arriving 14 February. The jet has spent the last few months at Cuyahoga County Airport, Cleveland, Ohio and home to Nextant Aviation.

Given the colour scheme of the aircraft displayed at http://flightaware.com there seems to be little change required to meet Skyline's livery. It also appears the aircraft may be registered ZK-NXJ once certification processes are completed. 

The Nextant 400XTi arrived at Napier mid afternoon yesterday direct from Nadi concluding its delivery flight.

Today, 17 February, it flew Napier to Wellington and back, then Napier to Queenstown and back. 



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