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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Deliveries

A trio of turbine powered aircraft have been delivered to New Zealand in recent days.

First to reach our soil was 2011 edition Cessna 208B Grand Caravan N9023W MSN 208B-2317. 
On delivery to Queenstown based True South, the Caravan embarked from Merced/CA for Honolulu 26 June 2019, then flew onto Apia arriving 29 June 2019. It reached Auckland 30 June 2019 before flying onto Wanaka 01 July 2019. 

Next up was 2018 edition Beech King Air 350i N881HG MSN 1155. On delivery to Tasman Aviation of Nelson, the King Air has been flying from Jakarta/Halim for the last several months and arrived at Darwin 30 June 2019 from Surabaya. It then flew to the Gold Coast 01 July 2019 then onward to Auckland and Nelson arriving 02 July 2019, later becoming ZK-VME. The larger King Air appears to be replacing the operator's King Air 200GTi ZK-VMF. 

And rounding out the trio was the arrival of Air Tractor 502-XP VH-XPN MSN AT502A-3192. This 2005 example has been previously operated by Field Air (Operations PTY) and it flew from Albury to Lord Howe Island 01 July 2019, then to Hamilton and Fielding 02 July 2019.
It was registered ZK-SXP on 08 July 2019 to Super Air Ltd. 

Some readers will note the registration VH-XPN has in recent times been a regular visitor to NZ when worn by a Learjet 60. 





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