The Piper PA-46-310P Malibu N9099Z c/n 46-08007 arrived in Rangiora in about July of 2007 and for almost twenty years has remained on the US register and flying around New Zealand - apart from a period of time parked up due to "technical difficulties". My... See more
On this mean chilly Saturday lunchtime, I found these three aircraft on the tie down wire near the Canterbury Aero Club.Cessna 185D Skywagon ZK-CKP is c/n 1850796 and has been with the Cameron family at Otematata Station sine late 1987 after its seventeen... See more
The prototype Cessna 172 was a tricycle undercarriage version of the Cessna 170C incorporating a rectangular vertical tail and powered with the Continental O-300 engine. It first flew on 12-05-1955. The first Cessna 172 on the NZ register was ZK-BQG from ... See more
A very cool afternoon at Rangiora on Tuesday the 21st found the Schweizer 269C ZK-HKF3 c/n S1388 working the circuit. First noted on the UK register as G-GREJ in July of 1989 with CSE Aviation of Kidlington. It was damaged on 02-07-1991 and cancelled the ... See more
The sixteenth Cessna 185 to join the NZ Civil register became ZK-CCX on 19-10-1962. This airframe was c/n 185-0115 and first flew in the States as N9915X on 12-05-1961 and was registered to Airfllite Inc on 23-05-1961. It appears to have been registered i... See more
