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Friday, October 3, 2014

Waikato Aero Club Alpha 160A - ZK-WKF

I was down country earlier this week and was passing by the Kihikihi Airstrip in the Waikato and spotted a light aircraft on approach, so I made a quick stop for these photos.

Great to see some off airport, small grass runway flight training in progress with the student doing a great job on the approach, landing and takeoff. The aircraft is Waikato Aero Club's Alpha 160A
ZK-WKF, which also a fully certified aerobatic aircraft.

Hope your flight training goes well.....

ZK-WKF

Monday, September 22, 2014

Sleeping Piper PA-38

Rural Aviation - was driving down south from Auckland and saw this sleeping Piper PA-38, ZK-WRB parked up at a small airstrip in the Waikato, just west of Hamilton, so made a quick stop for these pics.

ZK-WRB

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Te Awamutu - Kihikihi Airstrip

Another trip to the Waikato Region, this time I managed a quick visit to the rural airstrip at
Te Awamutu. The grass strip looked smooth and was well maintained and was well mowed, with nice short grass. The runway strip runs in an east/west direction. No flying on the the day I was there, but will try and make it back on a day with some movements to try and get some grass landing photos.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Waikato Flying

On a recent visit to the Waikato area I managed to visit Hamilton Airport. HLZ, for about an hour. I have not been to Hamilton Airport for quite some time so was good to see what changes had taken place around the airport. Good to see the new, well not that new, Terminal.
On the other side of the Airfield is where you will find the local Flying Schools.
The CTCwings Waikato and Waikato Aero Club are the two most noticeable flying schools on the western side of the airport. The CTCwings Aviation setup is pretty impressive, with great facilities and a large fleet of training aircraft mainly consisting of Diamond DA42 Twinstar and the Diamond DA-20 Katana