Post restoration flight of Devon ZK-KTT at Tauranga

ZK-KTT D.H. 105 DEVON 1B

This lovely old plane has taken to the skies for the first time in 14 years. On Friday 30th December at 2.25pm at Tauranga airport she took off on runway 07 for a flight time of 25mins. with Dave Phillips as the test pilot.It has been restored by Solo Wings and vollenteers at Tauranga Airport and my hat goes off to them.Lets hope they will offer pleasure flights 

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NOVEMBER MOVEMENTS 2016

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MEBAA AL-Maktoum General Aviation Exhibits

As well as Executive jets in the exhibits,there were other Light GA aircraft on view.Here are the examples shown.

Diamond  DA40 NG  A7-TAD

Diamond DA62  A7-KAA

Pilatus PC12/47E  HB-FVT

Cessna 208 Caravan II  N265CZ

Textron Aviation B350i  Super King Air  N136KF

Diamond GA42 Twin Star A7-GCC

MEBAA business show at DWC (Dubai-Al Maktoum) Airport

MEBAA held their yearly Business Aviation show at DWC Al-Maktoum Airport form 6-8th December and attracted 50 Exhibits to the display area away from the main Airport.So here are the Business jets noted.

Falcon FA7X  M-AKOL

Global Express OE-IRN

Bombardier Global 6000  N543GL

Falcon FA7X  VQ-BAA

Cessna C680 Latitude N920CL

Gulfstream G650  A7-CGA operated by Qatar Executive .

Bombardier Global 5000 N755RA

Honda jet  M-HNDA

Gulfstream G280 N280GU

Hawker 125 XP  VT-SRA

Dassault FA8X F-HFSD

Red Arrows display in Abu Dhabi

Yesterday ,Thursday 24th November the Corniche in Abu Dhabi ,I witnessed a great display from the Royal Air Forces Red Arrow Hawk display team on the far east display tour which included  Oman ,Bahrain and Abu Dhabi here in the Middle East.A large crowd surrounded the water front for the 25 minute display and was duly enjoyed by all.Even the locals liked it,as it coincides with the final Grand Prix of the season at Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi over the coming weekend,

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