Te Kowhai Airfield

Coming to the end of my time back in New Zealand before heading back to the Middle East i dropped into Te Kowhai airfield just NW of Hamilton to see what was around .Only recently the airfield was put up for sale but thanks to a  group of welcomed aviators and local business persons help secure the site and keep it as an airfield.

I big thank you to Regan Brown who I met at the flying club and he quite happily showed me around and i was able to take some pictures and was told there are around 50 aircraft hidden away in all the hangars and some more are planned to be built.There are facilities there for some food and drink and at weekends various light aircraft drop in as the airfield has fuel available .Check out their website
www.facebook.com/TeKowhaiAerodrome/

I recent addition to the NZ register was this Poorboy Aviation PB-1 ZK-BEE parked up in the only opened hangar on the airfield.

Parked in side the hangar adjacent to the Clubs office was this Foxcon Aviation Terrier 200 ZK-SOD with an amusing caption no-less.For UK spotters this is an occurring gesture in British airfields!!!!

1 of a couple of Piper PA18 reside here at Te Kowhai was ZK-BTU.

Vintage Cessna 172  still in a good condition was ZK-BUZ and just to the front of the cowling is Vans RV-6A  ZK-VIA.

Long time resident here is Tobago TB-9 ZK-TRW which seldom flys apparently !!!Shame,as it is a nice machine.

Jabiru UL-T ZK-CJP 

Arion Aircraft Lightning ZK-TDT looking slick in a colour paint scheme design.Behind are ZK-JRL,ZK-OBH ,ZK-CZR and ZK-WAX.

ZK-OBH Zenith CH-60 XL