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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Point Cook Air Pageant 28Feb 2010

The RAAF Museum at Point Cook, southwest of Melbourne, was the focal point for an Air Pageant held on Sunday 28 February. http://raaf.gov.au/raafmuseum/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Base_Williams
This free event ran from 1pm until 4.30pm with almost continous flying by a large number of military aircraft, past and present. Changing sky conditions thanks to a blustery southerly made for challenging photo taking!
The following images are in order of time taken.



























































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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Melbourne/Essendon 25 February 2010

The following, in no order at all, are a few images taken at Essendon 25Feb.

















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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Piper Comanche Rally of NZ

Over the last couple of weeks a rally has been flown around NZ of some visiting Comanche aircraft from Australia. Three of them are known to be PA24 VH-CDB and VH-OBI along with PA30 VH-ESL. VH-CDB and VH-ESL are known to have flown Norfolk to Lord Howe today, 24Feb, and VH-CDB and VH-OBI were at Mandeville 20Feb. Some questions if anyone can help:
1 / When and where did they enter NZ?
2/ While here, where did they visit?
3/ Was there more aircraft than those mentioned above?
4/ What ZK aircraft where involved?

Any info appreciated and can be emailed to mikeskj@xtra.co.nz

Thanks!
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Sat 20 - Wed 24 February 2010

Saturday 20 February 2010
Gulfstream 550 B-LSM departed from Queenstown on its way to Sydney.

Boeing C17 Globemaster III 02-1106 flew the final flight to Antarctica for this season today as ICE63.

Air Chathams Convair 580 ZK-CIF arrived at Auckland late today from Tonga.

Sunday 21 February 2010
Arriving into Christchurch early this morning from Hickam was United States Air Force C5A Galaxy 68-0226.

Gulfstream 450 N97FT made a brief visit to Rotorua, arriving from and returning to Wellington.

Monday 22 February 2010
USAF C5A Galaxy 68-0226 departed Christchurch for Hickam this morning while the C17, 02-1106 departed mid afternoon.

Nose art displayed on the C5A

Will Mallinson photos

Tuesday 23 February 2010
Gulfstream 450 N97FT departed Wellington for Kona and Santa Barbara.

Wednesday 24 February 2010
Nil significant!
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Wed 17 - Fri 19 February 2010

Wednesday 17 February 2010
Gulfstream 450 N97FT, as FWK97, flew Christchurch-Woodbourne-Christchurch today.

Gulfstream 550 B-KID departed Auckland mid morning for Hong Kong.

Global Express VH-VGX flew from Auckland to Wellington, back to Auckland then off to Essendon.

Beech C90 King Air N814CP neared the conclusion of its delivery flight to Palmerston North when it arrived at Auckland from Pago Pago this afternoon.

Thursday 18 February 2010
Fugro's Pacific Aerospace Cresco VH-KPY launched from Hamilton direct to Norfolk Island today at the conclusion of its survey contract in NZ that commenced in Nov '09.

Gulfstream 550 B-LSM made an early evening arrival into Queenstown from Darwin where it had arrived the previous evening from Hong Kong.

At Queenstown 19Feb, Mike Stead photo

Friday 19 February 2010
Gulstream 450 N97FT again flew from Christchurch to Woodbourne, then the short hop to Wellington.
Gavin Conroy photo
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