Saturday, January 31, 2015

China Southern B777-300ER, B-2007

China Southern Airlines for the summer months have upgraded their capacity from the B787-8 to the B777-300ER for flights CZ305/CZ306, which arrives late afternoon into Auckland and departs back late in the evening. The morning flight CZ335/CZ336 are still operated by the B787-8.

The weather was not the best for these photos, a bit grey and overcast, better luck next time I guess.

See here is B-2007 arriving into Auckland back on the 20th Dec 2014.

B-2007
B-2007
B-2007 
B-2007
B-2007

Friday, January 30, 2015

Jetstar Orange A320, VH-VGF

At last some shots of Jetstar's bright orange A320, VH-VGF on the ground and going slow for some better photos than I got last time. VH-VGF is now a regular visitor to New Zealand skies on the domestic network for Jetstar.

VH-VGF
VH-VGF
VH-VGF

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Falcon 7X, OO-LMG

This very white Falcon 7X, OO-LMG is seen here arriving into Auckland direct from Singapore back on the 10th Sep 2014, with opera superstar Andrea Bocelli onboard, ahead of his New Zealand Concert.

OO-LMG
OO-LMG
OO-LMG

Friday, January 23, 2015

Great Barrier Airlines - ZK-RDT

Happy New Year Everyone. I'm back from my break away and ready to get into more photo's for 2015.

Well to kick of my first post for 2015, I thought I'd start with these photos taken back in October 2014.
I was asked by Great Barrier Airlines if I could take some photos, so they could update their website with some new pics. So I was more than happy to help out.

Great Barrier Airlines has been operating since 1983 when it first flew out of Ardmore to Great Barrier Island, which it located 55 nautical miles north east of Auckland of the coast of the northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula. For more information on Great Barrier Island visit their website HERE
They now operate out of Auckland Airport and the North Shore Airfield.

My ride out to the island was on board their Embraer EMB-820C, ZK-RDT which was my first flight in this aircraft type, which is also know as and is a Piper Navajo (Chieftain).

Many thanks to Chris, my pilot out to the Barrier and the staff at Great Barrier Airlines for a great day.

For more information about Great Barrier Airlines you can visit their website HERE

So here we go, first photos posted for 2015.

ZK-RDT
At Great Barrier Island

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

ZK-RDT

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Warbirds Open Day - Ardmore

As mentioned in a previous post back in 2014, I went out to the Warbirds Open Day at Ardmore back on the 23rd Nov. Here are a few more pics from the day.

First up is ZK-SAX, De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk

ZK-SAX
(WK551)
ZK-SAX
(WK551)
ZK-SAX
(WK551)

The Boeing Stearman - and what a well polished and looked after aircraft..

Boeing Stearman
Boeing Stearman

The De Havilland Beaver DHC-2, ZK-CKH (NZ6001)

ZK-CKH
(NZ6001)
ZK-CKH
(NZ6001)

And lastly, the De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth, ZK-ALK

ZK-ALK
ZK-ALK

Friday, January 2, 2015

Air New Zealand's ZK-NZG Wing Flex

Welcome to 2015 and Happy New Year.

Well to kick off for 2015, some photos of the last and latest delivered new B787-9 for Air New Zealand from back in 2014. ZK-NZG arrived into Auckland on the 5th Dec 2014, a few days behind its intended delivery date.

I actually really like the B787-9 and it sure is an easy aircraft to work with, and as you can see in these photos of flight NZ175 AKL-PER taking off, just awesome wing flex.

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ZK-NZG
ZK-NZG
ZK-NZG 
ZK-NZG
ZK-NZG
ZK-NZG