Saturday 28 March 2015

TAURANGA MODEL AIRCRAFT CLUB

Tauranga Model Aircraft Club put on a public flying display today at there airstrip up at the TECT Park





 XTRA  260

PILOT

FRAZER  BRIGGS



Tuesday 24 March 2015

EXCITEMENT AT TAURANGA AIRPORT TODAY

Today Tauranga Airport had it's first ever visit of an Airbus  A320-232 ZK-OJD of Air New Zealand.
A charter flight to take passengers to Palmerston North. Plus a mix of Twins also heading the
in the same direction.
 Coming into land over Tauranga harbour
 Parked up on the apron
 Takeing off runway 07 to Palmy
 ZK-MKG  Beech  90


 ZK-ECJ  Jetstream
 ZK-NPR  PA 31
ZK-LTD  PA 31
ZK-LCA  Cessna  510

Sunday 22 March 2015

TAURANGA VISITORS THIS WEEK

 N283KA King Air 200
 Q300  ZK-NFA  
New paint job
 ZK-DAE  Diamond  DA40
Eagle Flight Training Ardmore
 Two from Whakatane  ZK-LMR &  ZK-MDS

Nice helicopter ZK-HCG
Eurocpter  350BA  from  Wanaka

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Plane crash incident at Tauranga

Yesterday Tuesday 10th March, Tiger Moth ZK-BMY had a incident upon landing on 07 Grass R/W.ZK-BMY was landing behind DH60 Gipsy Moth ZK-ADT after a weekend away at the Tiger Moth fly-in at Kaikohe airfield in the Bay of Islands.

Unfortunately ZK-BMY seemed to wobble upon landing and the left-wing scraped the ground  and when coming to a stop the nose dropped forward and smashed the Propeller.



Thankfully,the pilot was unhurt and the aircraft was towed away to a hangar from the emergency services on the airfield.

Hopefully,Mr J. Pheasant can fix the Tiger Moth as he is a magician on Tigers !!!!!

Monday 2 March 2015

2 addition residents to Tauranga

Noted over february are 2 new aircraft resident to Tauranga.

ZK-ECE  Vans RV-7A.

Owned by Steven Carr and his personal hangar is in process of being constructed adjacent to the former MASH Hangar on the North side of the airfield.

ZK-ECE RV-7A c/n 73638

ZK-PVG  Sisler SF-2A Cygnet UL

Owned by Mr Derick Holmes , the microlight occasionally lives in the former Bayflight Hangar which is now operated by Solo Wings

ZK-PWG Sisler SF-2A Cygnet UL c/n 20122

According to NZCAA change of ownership,we are expecting the arrival of PA-31 Navajo Cheftan ZK-ECQ which is owned by Dairy Tech International Ltd which also operate PA23-250F Aztec ZK-DGT which seldom flys.