Couple of visitors over the weekend at Tauranga

Dispite excellent weather,not many visitors dropped into Tauranga over Labor weekend but here are a few to savoir

Auckland Int based Pacific Jets owner Falcon 2000 ZK-OCB  landed for around 30 mins before departing from/To Auckland

Piper PA22 Colt  ZK-FJD parked outside Solo wings from Wanganui.

Cessna180 ZK-BDB stayed over the weekend from a private strip near Ardmore

Ardmore based ZK-THB Cessna 172 S

A nice visitor from far away Invercargill at the lower South Island is Southern Wings PA28-181 Archer ZK-EBQ.

Also another rare visitor to TRG is this latest built Titan T-51 Mustang  ZK-LSD from Wanganui and was parked up Friday and Saturday outside Solowings Eng hangar with TRG Based ZK-PWL B350 next to it.

ZK-TCS AERO L-39 ALBATROSS

A new resident for Tauranga and the Jet Fighter stable.

Pics by  THE HAIRY MOLE RAT

TAURANGA AIRPORT MOVEMENTS IN OCTOBER

Re-Painting COZY ZK-COZ

As a aircraft paint sprayer for many years ,I was approached by the owner of Puffer Cozy ZK-COZ Rusbo Borman to repaint after a few years living of site away from Tauranga Airport.

In the coming weeks ahead i will send a progress report on the re-paint and will post it as and when.

Here are pixs at the first stage.

Prior to preparation,

Preparation Carried out

Matamata Fly-in and BBQ visit.

Last Sunday 30th September  myself and Peter 'Rat " Mole attended the Matamata Flying club fly in and BBQ and dispite the good weather ,the turn out was low but we still managed to see some opened hangars with their pray in full view ready to be photographed.

Here is a list of visitors on the day.
ZK-BQV  , ZK-BPM    Piper PA18
ZK-EKG ,ZK-CTZ,      Cessna 172
ZK-JRY  ,ZK-TLC        Cessna 182
ZK-TZD                        Robin R2160
ZK-ZXZ                        Zenith CH 601- XL
ZK-FQQ                       Piper PA28 -181 Archer
ZK-FWK                      Cessna152 Aerobat
ZK-LHC                       Harris CASH Aviation  Model 3

Matamata residents noted
ZK-NPA,ZK-JEZ,ZK-NUU,ZK-KOL  Cessna 172,,s
ZK-LED    CZW Sportscruiser 
ZK-DIM    DA40 D
ZK-DUM  DA42 Twin Star
ZK-FST    Quad City Challenger II
ZK-SKE   Best off Skyranger Vmax
ZK-NPS   Tecnam P2002 Sierra (H)
ZK-JLD    Batham B10 (H)
ZK-MIJ    Stolp SA-900 V-Star U/L(H)
ZK-JAQ   S.M.A.N. Petrel (H)
ZK-SKH  Chipmunk MK22 (H)
ZK-STO  Slepcev Storch UL (H)
ZK-BLM  DH82 Tiger Moth (H)
ZK-TNT   Corby CJ 1 Starlet U/L
ZK-FNY   Cvjetkovic CA-65
ZK-CNC  ,ZK-PNE  PA-25 Pawnee 235
ZK-RBK   RAF 2000 GTX (H)
ZK-RBS    Commander Elite (H)
ZK-FLD    Zenith CH601

Gliders
ZK-GPC,ZK-GEO,ZK-GVT,ZK-GRS,ZK-GRR,ZK-GJD,ZK-GBA,ZK-GVM,ZK-GXP

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Cessna 182 ZK-JRY visiting from Ardmore

Chipmunk MK22 ZK-SKH /WK511 seen here still in its original ex-Royal navy Training scheme which used to be based at Plymouth /Robrough Airport before moving to RNAS Culdrose ,and then sold and now resides at Matamata.Behind the Chippy is Storch ZK-STO.

Noted in the same hangar as the Chippy is DH82 Tiger Moth ZK-BLM.

1 of 4 visitors that arrived for the fly-in from Hastings/ bridge Pa was Cessna 172 Skyhawk
ZK-EKG

Parked up inside the Piakio Gliding hangar was the clubs PA25 Pawnee ZK-CNC.

Arriving from Te Kowhai was Piper PA18 ZK-BQV 

1 of various NZ Aviation Academy fleet of aircraft based at Matamata is DA42 Twin Star ZK-DUM

Arriving from Hamilton is L3 Comms Cessna 172 S ZK-CTZ.

A rare aircraft seen in NZ and based in Matamata is Cvjetkovic CA-65 ZK-FNY so a billy bonus in seeing it taxiing out of its den and parking up outside the clubhouse.

Ardmore based Cessna 182  ZK-TLC arriving with ZK-JRY before departing for Pauanui

Tauranga based Harris Model 3 is ZK-LHC  attending the fly-in

Arriving from Hastings/Bridge Pa was Piper 18 ZK-BPM

And arriving from North Shore is Robin R2006 ZK-TZD.

Matamata based Cessna 172 ZK-JEZ operated with the NZ Aviation Academy