Thursday, October 17, 2013

Beyonce - Arrives

Touching down in Auckland on the 16th Oct in a Gulfstream G550, N235DX was American Singer Beyonce, arriving for her Auckland Concert.

N235DX
Gulfstream G550
ps. sorry about photo quality, had to use a point and shoot...



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Some Single Engines at Santa Monica

A few photos from around Santa Monica Airport, a mixed bag this time of some light aircraft.

Notam to Pilots on Wall !!!

N694RR
Cessna Skyhawk 172S

N400JW
Piper Cherokee Archer

N38700
Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee Archer

A Mixed Line Up!!!

N694RR
Skyhawk 172S

Monday, October 14, 2013

Google - Fly's Into Town

Google's B767-200 Corporate Jet, N2767 arrived into Auckland yesterday the 13th October landing just after 4pm from Nadi, Fiji.

Google's
N2767

N2767

N2767 & a Couple of Islanders...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Mount Cook Airline, ATR-72, ZK-MCC

Mount Cook Airline Ltd is a fully owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand, and operate the ATR-72-500 in their fleet. Seen here arriving into Auckland and also taxiing out for departure is ZK-MCC
ZK-MCC is due for a maintenance "C" check before the end of this year in Christchurch.


ZK-MCC

ZK-MCC

Friday, October 11, 2013

Cathay Pacific, One World Livery

Some more shots this time again of B-HXG, Cathay's One World Livery A340-300 arriving from Hong-Kong. B-HXG seems to be a regular now on the HKG-AKL-HKG route.

B-HXG

B-HXG

B-HXG



Tuesday, October 8, 2013

China Southern, B-6058

Well a sight not to be seen for much longer in Auckland, well at least the A330-200 that China Southern operate to Auckland. Replacing their A330-200's on the Auckland route at the end of October with the B787-8's, will make China Southern the first airline to operate the Dreamliner to/from New Zealand.

CZ305, B-6058 Arriving in Auckland.

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

B-6058

Thursday, October 3, 2013

King Air 250, N175EU

This is one immaculate Beechcraft  King Air 250, N175EU seen here in Auckland on a demonstration visit.

N175EU

N175EU


N175EU

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Over The Pacific

I took these photos onboard NZ4, AKL-LAX last October about two and a half hours out of LAX and just before the breakfast service.
I have flown the AKL-LAX sector about 60 times as a passenger and on almost every flight, about two hours out of of LA there is always a thick cloud base below as far as you can see into the horizon. I was a bit late in waking up on this flight for some better photos, but the sunrise onto the clouds in the morning can be quite spectacular.

NZ4
AKl-LAX

NZ4
AKL-LAX

NZ4
AKL-LAX