A weekend trip to Taildraggers flyin at Waipukarau Airfield

 Fingers were crossing for  a sunny weekend and wasn't dissapointed,so departing on the 4th September for hastings ,I headed south east to Hawkes bay region and planned to drop into Rotorua,Taupo,Napier,Hastings-bridge Pa and finally end up at Waipukarau airfield on the 5th September for the Taildraggers flyin So first Rotorua

.As usual nothing of note.Just DHC-1 Beaver ZK-AMA parked outside the flying club.

1 hour later I arrived at a more lively Taupo Airfield and various helicopters were visible.              Robinson R-44,s  ZK-HGX,HFG,ICP and HCO .                                                                                             AS350  ZK-IAE,HBW,followed by 3 Enstroms in the Maintenance hangar with ZK-HRJ and 2 un-marked in the hangar.

Next stop Napier,and at last managed to see the DC-3 ZK-JGB parked up and outside Skyline Aviation was Beech 200,s ZK-WPN,SDH along with Beech400 NXJ and Cessna 510 VXM.

Last stop on the 4th was Hastings-bridge pa, were there were a few new residents on show that i havent seen before with Highlights be Stearmen ZK-STM,C420 SVQ,and C180 RJH.

The 5th was 45 minute drive to Waipukarau airfield in central Hawkes Bay and on my first visit ever there was resulting in noting the majority of residents there as well as over 30 + visitors for the Tail draggers fly-in and spot landing competition.A big thank you to Ron Day in allowing me to enter his hangar and being able to photo his collection of aircraft with prize Piper J-2 UL ZK-AGD on show.

Taupo

Napier

Hastings-Bridge Pa

Movements today at Tauranga

 During Level 2 here are a few movements today at a lovely sunny day at Tauranga

A Visitor up from Nelson was Cessna 172 ZK-WFS.A first for me .

ZK_LAP ZLIN SAVAGE CUB

 ZK-LAP   First flight to day in blustery conditions showing of its short take off ability.

ZK-LAP Savage pre-test flight

 Yesterday Malcolm Savell has his latest Zlin Savage  build ZK-LAP carrying out handling tests prior to test flight on Sunday.Another lovely build along with his previous CMR and ZAX builds.

July visitors noted at Tauranga

With a wet July recorded,visitors were down but here are a few noted between the rain.

Pixs courtesy from Myself ,Peterr Mole and Warick Hamilton

Rotorua Airport visit

On Monday 6th July,I dropped into Rotorua airport for a quick nose around and as usual not much to view but was pleasantly surprised of Auckland based DHC-1 Beaver float plane  ZK-AMA parked out side Rotorua Aero club building and along to other hangars was resident Cessna U206F  ZK-CBT parked outside.