Aviationshotz: April 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

Spitfire's And A DC-3

Its always good to see two Spitfires in action together, and as I have mentioned before the weather was perfect for some nice photos at the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Show.

Here is Spitfire Mk IV MH367 (ZK-WDQ) & PV270 (ZK-SPI) taxing out in preparation for take-off. Air Chathams DC-3, ZK-AWP had perfect timing for landing after doing a display to get the last shot.

ZK-SPI (PV270) & ZK-WDQ (MH367)

Spitfire PV270 (ZK-SPI)

Spitfire MH367 (ZK-WDQ)

Spitfire PV270 and ZK-AWP

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

China Airlines B-18356

Last weekend in Auckland saw some rather spectacular dark rain clouds pass over the Auckland area and in the late afternoon with the sun coming through just at the right time to get these photos.

China Airlines A330-300, B-18356 seen here landing as CI53 with some very dark clouds in the background in the last two photos.

B-18356

Sunday, April 19, 2015

LAN B787-8 First Auckland Flight - CC-BBA

On Friday LAN said farewell to their A340-300's from Auckland and yesterday the 18th April 2015 we welcomed their first B787-8 flight into Auckland from Santiago, Chile.

CC-BBA had the honours of being the first LAN B787-8 to operated into Auckland arriving in the early hours of the morning and leaving again for Sydney just before sunrise.

I was pretty dam pleased to see the weather clear with a bit of sun out to get these first photos of
CC-BBA arriving back from Sydney as LA800 and the departure back to Santiago.

First LAN B787-8 Arriving from Sydney, LA800
CC-BBA

CC-BBA

Saturday, April 18, 2015

LAN Farewells A340-300 Operations In New Zealand

Friday the 17th April 2015 saw the last day of operation of LAN's A340-313's into Auckland.

After many years of flying the A340-313 to Auckland from Santiago with continuing service to Sydney, its time to say goodbye to these old workhorses for the airline, and introduce the State Of the Art B787.

Saturday the 18th April 2015, will see the start of a new era in LAN's New Zealand / Australia history with the first LA801 flight, operated by a B787-8 to arrive. The first B787-8 to arrive will be CC-BBA.

Well here are my last photos ever taken of CCCQF back on the 27th February, which also had the honours of operating the last Auckland - Santiago yesterday as LA800.

CCCQF

Friday, April 17, 2015

Sunset Arrival ZK-OKS

The heat haze of summer has almost gone, and I'm looking forward to getting some good low sunset photos this winter. A couple of photos of ZK-OKS arriving from Melbourne as NZ124 just before daylight saving ended in New Zealand.

ZK-OKS

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Aero L39 - ZK-WLM

At last, I managed to get some decent photos of this Aero L39, ZK-WLM.
On display at the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Show back in January this year.

The sun was just in the right spot for each of these pics, I like the last photo the best.

ZK-WLM

Friday, April 10, 2015

Singapore Airlines A380

Singapore Airlines first summer season of operating the A380 into Auckland has come to an end and they have reverted back to the B777-300ER for the winter months. SQ will resume their A380 flights back to Auckland at the start of summer later on this year again.

I took these photos of 9V-SFK departing Auckland's Runway 05R as SQ286 a couple of days before the last A380 flight.

9V-SKF

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Jetstream - ZK-LFW

Some closeup photos this time of the Life Flight's Jetstream ZK-LFW on display at the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Show.

ZK-LFW

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Great Barrier Airlines ZK-FVD

Back to some photos from late 2014, and my trip out to Great Barrier Island, with Great Barrier Airlines for the day. The reason for the trip was to get some good photos for Great Barrier Airlines so they could update the photos on their website.

Arriving into Great Barrier just after at the Barrier, their Britten-Norman Islander ZK-FVD arrived with plane load of passengers and freight. After unloading, the pilot then embarked on this quick flight and circuit around the airfield so I could get some photos.

And this is what I can up with, so glad the skies were blue....