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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Corporate Corner

It's been a surprisingly busy week or so with a number of jet movements to report.

BR Aero's Citation II N112BR appears to have exited the region having been an Australasian resident since Spring 2015. It departed Auckland for Pago Pago 15 August and the following day made its way to Christmas Island, Hilo, Van Nuys and Phoenix - a big day out! 

Lifeflight (renamed from Careflight a month or so back) Learjet 45 VH-VVI arrived Auckland from 15 August from Davao, Philippines, via Darwin and Brisbane. It headed home to Brisbane 16 August. 

Zettajet's Global Express N588LQ made its first visit to New Zealand arriving at Auckland 16 August from Brisbane. It departed for Sydney 18 August. 

Execujet Global Express VH-OCV jetted into Auckland from the Gold Coast 17 August and departed the next morning heading back to the Gold Coast.

ANZA/Tyremax Challenger 604 N604AU also arrived at Auckland 17 August with the jet originating from Bankstown with a stop at Sydney to clear formalities. 

Matone Promotora Gulfstream G550 N989AR techstopped at Auckland 21 August arriving from Sydney and departing for Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Brazil. The jet had arrived Sydney direct from Ushaia, Argentina 14 August and later went onto visit Melbourne, Narrabri, Brisbane and Newcastle. 

Carnival Gulfstream G650 N305CC arrived at Queenstown late morning 21 August from Fort Lauderdale via Papeete. It flew onto Wellington 23 August. First visit to New Zealand. 


Gilead Sciences Falcon 7X N977GS arrived in Auckland after dark 22 August from San Jose, CA via Honolulu as TWY977. It departed the following afternoon for Essendon. First visit to New Zealand. 

Jetcity Learjet 45 VH-LJQ arrived at Dunedin 23 August from Essendon and Sydney and after several hours on the ground it departed for Sydney. It was joined on the ramp by Auckland-based medivac Nextant 400 ZK-NXJ. 


Fedex Corporate Aviation Global Express N1FE arrived at Wellington 24 August from Sydney where it had arrived two days earlier from Honolulu. It departed Wellington 25 August heading back to Honolulu. 

Zetta Jet Global 6000 N688ZJ arrived at Auckland 26 August from Tokyo/Haneda and departed mid afternoon 27 August for San Jose, CA.