Latest new residents at Tauranga

 I successful trip today at Tauranga ,managing to capture 3 newish residents and thanks to the owners to allow me access and permission to take photos.Many thanks Steve Geard and a kind American owner.

And a couple of visitors thrown in as well

ZK-DAN Cessna 177 from a strip near Dannervirke

ZK-ROB  Tecnam P96 Golf from Kaipara Flats

ZK-IGQ Aerospatiale SE 3160 Alouette III (New resident)

N1572B Luscumbe 8E Silvaire (Resident)

(VH-JCE) Technoavia SP55 (on rebuild) hopefully allocated ZK-XXX

And visitors

Tauranga visitors over January and February 25

 It,s been a while since I posted visitors to Tauranga so starting off  2025 with selection of some captured over January and February.I have excluded traffic for the Airshow in January which i covered in a previous blog.

Boeing 757 NZ7272 of the RNZAF carrying out flight training 

Cessna 172 from Te Kuiti

Vans RV-12 ZK-EAA from Waihi Beach airstrip

Auckland aero clubs Cessna 172 ZK-JRA from Ardmore

RNZAF 14SQN Texan II NZ1411

Cessna 177 Cardinal ZK-TEC  from Feilding via Pauanui

Cessna 172 ZK-DEP from Te Kowhai

Beech 200 Super king air ZK-FDT departing back to Christchurch after arriving from Woodbourne earlier

Eurocopter EC120 ZK-HPM from Christchurch Int on a Survey detail in the local area

Beech 200Super King air ZK-LFA operated by Life Flight seen landing from Wellington

Alpha Aviation Pioneer 200 ZK-LPN arriving from Dunedin/Taieri and becoming Tauranga first new resident for 2025

Massey University School of Aviation,s Diamond DA40 ZK-MTG arriving from Palmerston North

Robinson R-44 ZK-HAD from Rotorua

Mil Mil 34C ZK-HCV in for maintenance at Aviation Training 2017 hangar

Same for Bell 206 Jetranger ZK-IEU 

Kiwi Air Limited,s sole Reims/Cessna ZK-XLF was temporary based at tauranga for major Photo survey work over the Waikato/Coromandel and Bay of Plenty area during February.Normally lives at its operating base at Gisborne

Thanks to Warwick Hamilton and Neil Williams for additional pixs