Kapiti Coast 31-01-2022

A busy afternoon at Kapiti during a very hot and sunny day. Nice to see a few visitors come in for a fuel pick up.

Here are the pics of what I got:

Robinson R.22 ZK-HIJ shortly after arrival from near Blenheim, later heading back to it's base near Taupo.

Waikato Aviation's Piper PA-28 ZK-WIT, arriving from south for fuel before continuing home to Hamilton.

Wellington Aero Club's Cessna 172S ZK-CEO arriving from Foxpine for fuel before continuing back home.

Local Cessna 172M ZK-DRT out for a compass swing and engine tests. Good to see this one out again after so long.

Air Chathams Saab 340 ZK-CIY taxiing out for the afternoon service to Auckland.

Air Hawke's Bay's Cessna 172S ZK-JMR taxiing in after arriving from Hastings on an IFR.

Foxpine 30-01-2022

On the last Sunday of every month, the locals at Foxpine hold a BBQ which people are welcome to drive or fly to. Sadly today's one coincided with one at Atheby's Farm Airstrip near Woodville and everyone seemed to go there instead. Here's hoping for next month's one!

Did get to see a few locals dotted around at least with some coming out and one Massey plane coming in for a back track and go

Here is everything I saw whilst there:

Visiting Aircraft
ZK-MTE Diamond DA40

Local Aircraft
ZK-EMP Johnston Acrolite
ZK-OUZ Zenair CH701
ZK-SAQ Fly Synthesis Storch S
ZK-TCX Thatcher CX4
ZK-VEE SG Aviation Storm 300
ZK-WGO Piper PA-32

Zenair CH701 ZK-OUZ

Fly Synthesis Storch S ZK-SAQ

Massey University of Aviation's Diamond DA40 ZK-MTE on the rollout back home to Palmerston North

Kapiti Airport Residents (Van's)

 Continuing on with my series of Kapiti Airport residents we have the Van's Aircraft. Getting quite popular within New Zealand with a new Van's almost every month popping up. Kapiti has 3 Van's currently based at it.

Van's RV-7A ZK-MIS

Van's RV-9A ZK-RVE, yet to fly as far as I'm aware

Van's RV-6 ZK-VRV

With the popularity of Van's aircraft, would hope one day to see another be based at Kapiti.

Masterton 23-1-2022

Had a quick trip out to Masterton this morning, sadly not much happening despite the good weather.

But thankfully a few hangars were open and got to have a quick look inside some of them:

Visiting Aircraft:

ZK-CSP Tecnam P92

ZK-DSK Piper PA-28

ZK-GHF Glasflugel 201B

ZK-NML Cessna 182R
ZK-WWW Piper PA-28

Locals spotted around

ZK-AHD Piper J3

ZK-ANL De Havilland DH.82

ZK-BAT De Havilland DH.82

ZK-BEW De Havilland DH.82

ZK-CCW Beagle A109

ZK-DKL Just Aircraft SuperSTOL XL
ZK-DOY Tecnam P2002

ZK-GYJ Schleicher ASW 25

ZK-JBX Piper PA-38

ZK-MBO Piper PA-44

ZK-RMA Van's RV-10

ZK-SKD Cessna A185F

ZK-SUG Piper PA-25

ZK-SXM Air Tractor AT-502B

ZK-TBD Sequoia Falco

ZK-UAE Glasair III

ZK-ULL K&S Aircraft Cavalier
ZK-WRA Tecnam P2002

Sadly the only picture I took was this one

Air Tractor AT-502B ZK-SXM awaiting her next job

A busy weekend for me, time for a rest for the stat day tomorrow!

Stratford Open Day

Stratford Sport Flyers hold an annual open day during January and this years one was an absolute treat.

An early start of 6am on the road for me, but the journey up I spotted no clouds anywhere (No exaggeration!) and I arrived at Stratford just after 9:30am. A few aircraft had already arrived and the locals had got most of their aircraft out on static for the day, but the fun was only just beginning.

A nice variety of aircraft from as far south as Foxpine, as far east as Gisborne and as far north as North Shore attended, sadly no Yak or Trojan display whilst I was there due to other circumstances. But this is what I saw:

The visiting Aircraft:

N100NA Piper PA-32R
ZK-AXJ Auster J5

ZK-BAZ Piper PA-24
ZK-CFT Gardan GY-80
ZK-CJV ICP Savannah
ZK-DFL Piper PA-28
ZK-DLI Grumman American AA-5A

ZK-DMK Alpi Pioneer 300
ZK-EZY Cli-mate 100
ZK-FTZ Staaken Z-21
ZK-LAX Aeroprakt A-22
ZK-LFD Aeroprakt A-22
ZK-LPD Alpi Pioneer 300
ZK-MAS Cessna TR182
ZK-MEY Zenair CH601
ZK-MMC X-Air Hanuman
ZK-NGT BRM Aero NG5
ZK-NGZ BRM Aero NG5
ZK-PCB Alpi Pioneer 200
ZK-PMD SPA Panther
ZK-REV Cessna 172
ZK-RJK Gardan GY-20
ZK-RZB Zenair CH601
ZK-SAM BRM Aero NG5
ZK-SXR Sonex
ZK-TES Tecnam P92
ZK-THK Bygate Tiger Hawk
ZK-VCP Czech Sportcruiser
ZK-VNZ Van's RV-6

ZK-VXN Aeroprakt A-32
ZK-WHO Van's RV-3
ZK-WLK Van's RV-8

ZK-ZOD Zenair CH601

Locals on Static display:
ZK-CYG Sister SF-2A Cygnet
ZK-CZH Taylor Monoplane
ZK-DBZ Zenair CH601 (From nearby Strip)
ZK-EEF Gardan GY20

ZK-GUY Glaser-Dirks DG-100
ZK-IFS Hughes 369E
ZK-JKS Aerochute Dual Deluxe
ZK-JNV ICP Savannah
ZK-JPX Zenair CH601
ZK-JQT Zenair CH601 (From nearby Strip)
ZK-MKE Fokker D.VII Replica

ZK-OBH Zenair CH601
ZK-RFD B & F Technik FK-14B
ZK-RGV Supermarine Spitfire Replica
ZK-RPL Rotor Hawk Falcon 1
ZK-SAL TL Ultralight 2000 (From nearby Strip)
ZK-SND Monnet Sonerai
ZK-SNW Monnet Sonerai

ZK-SRP Zenair CH601
ZK-SSF Zenair CH601
ZK-TGC Aeropro Eurofox
ZK-WER Alpi Pioneer 200

ZK-YEX Waiex

Other Locals hangared:

ZK-DGV Jodel D.11

ZK-EEJ Ceesna 180B

ZK-GGH Schleicher Ka.6
ZK-GPV Schempp-Hirth Discus
ZK-GVW Schleicher ASW 20
ZK-GWZ Grob Twin Astir

ZK-JLZ Zenair CH701

ZK-JTA Aeroprakt A-22

ZK-PBH R & B Bearhawk

ZK-SNJ Monnet Sonerai

ZK-STA Jabiru J230

ZK-TKF Micro Aviation Bantam

Then photos of my highlights from the day:

A very nice catch to come in from Te Kowhai, a new one for me!

Wearing new colours on tail since last time I saw it

My first time getting a picture of the Fokker D.VII

New one for me!

Another new one for me!

Yet another new one for me!

Again a new one for me!

Another new one for me!

Very hard to find the registration on this, but is nonetheless Aerochute ZK-JKS, a new one for me!

My last new one for the day!

Was great to walk away with 8 aircraft i've never seen before. I ended the day at about 3:30pm and went straight home. A very enjoyable day and well worth the trip up!

Kapiti Airport Residents (Grumman American)

 Continuing on with the Kapiti Airport Residents series, we have the Grumman Americans. We have 4 of these lovely aircraft:

Grumman American AA-5 ZK-DKW

Grumman American AA-1B ZK-DKY

Grumman American AA-5A ZK-DLL

Grumman American AA-1C ZK-LFS

Believe Kapiti has the most Grumman American aircraft based at it in whole of New Zealand. So quite lucky to have that!

Wellington Aero Club visitors at Kapiti 18-1-2022

It's always nice to see the Wellington Aero Club aircraft come in to Kapiti. In this case it was to pick up ZK-WAC which had been at Kapiti since Sunday.

The aircraft that came in to pick up ZK-WAC was the recently acquired Piper PA-38 ZK-EQX which until before was used by Mainland Air out of Dunedin.

Piper PA-38 ZK-EQX, preparing to depart back to Wellington after arriving a short while before

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Piper PA-38 ZK-WAC also preparing to depart back to Wellington.

Kapiti Airport visitors 16-1-2022

Whilst outing photographing the Air Chatham's DC-3 yesterday, there were a few visitors that came in, including a nice little group from Hawera for the day

Van's RV-10 ZK-PHL arriving from Hawera

Piper PA-28 ZK-DGQ arriving from Hawera

Cessna R172K ZK-ELO arriving from it's private Strip near Feilding

Hawera Aero Club's Cessna A152 ZK-UNB arriving from Hawera

Pelorus Air's Cessna 172 ZK-MGR arriving from Picton. Love the old style straight tail!

Vintage Flying Weekend at Kapiti

 A hot summer's day greeted those that came out to watch Air Chatham's DC-3 do many flights today. Whilst of course the DC-3 was the highlight of the day, Kapiti Airport was busy with all aircraft coming and going all morning. A post on the visitors that came in today will be posted up tomorrow.

Today I will be posting my favourite shots of the DC-3 doing a few flights this morning.

Looking forward to her return this time next year!

Air Chathams DC-3 comes to play

Highly anticipated weekend of vintage flights has arrived at Kapiti. Air Chatham's DC-3 every year around mid January comes in for a weekend of vintage flights over Kapiti Island and so far every time all flight have been booked, hoping for a repeat this year!

So knowing it was this weekend, I did a stop on my way home from work and got a lovely dusk shot of her parked up ahead of her many flights tomorrow and Sunday.

Hopefully I'll be going out to get more pictures on Sunday of this event!

Air Chathams Douglas DC-3 ZK-AWP, parked up after arriving from Auckland earlier.

Kapiti Airport Residents (Jodels)

 Continuing on with the Kapiti Airport residents series, next up we have the Jodels. Kapiti is home to 3 lovely looking Jodels:

Jodel D11 ZK-DYB

Jodel D11 ZK-ECU

Jodel D11 ZK-KSD

Hopefully we'll see some more Jodels end up living here!

Flying Hawk visitor

Making a very nice visit to Kapiti for fuel today was this lovely looking Cessna R172K Hawk. This arrived from Whitianga and continued on down south back home. Have never seen this aircraft before, so a nice new one for me!

Cessna R172K ZK-MKY

Kapiti Airport Residents (Cessnas)

Continuing on with my Kapiti Airport residents series, we have the Cessna's based there. This does not include the Aero club ones as I have already covered them

Cessna 172D ZK-BDL

Merlin Lab's Cessna 172S ZK-CTY

Cessna 172M ZK-DRP

Cessna U206F ZK-DWX. The livery has had some changes to it since this photo, sadly have not caught the aircraft since having those changes. 

Cessna R182 ZK-EKL

Cessna 152 ZK-FPI

Milford Sound Flightseeing Cessna 208B ZK-MCL. This is only based at Kapiti temporarily till Merlin Lab's own Cessna 208B comes operational in next few months.

Cessna 172S ZK-ZDM

There is also Roc on Aviation's Cessna 172R ZK-ZAE, unfortunately have not got a picture of it. But this has not come out for many years.