Kapiti Airport Diversions

Well today was a bit of a special day for Kapiti, with Wellington Airport not operational due to dense fog, Kapiti had a few diversions in hand.

Sadly the first one I missed due to being at work, which was Cessna 510 ZK-YDZ coming from and returning to Napier.

But the next lot I was around for:

A very very special visitor, Pilatus PC.24 VH-FGM, seen here taxiing out for departure to Wellington. This arrived from Invercargill earlier.

Sounds Air's Pilatus PC.12 ZK-PLB, this diverted doing the Wellington-Taupo run around midday. Later departed to Woodbourne.

Air Whanganui's Beech B200 ZK-MDC arriving from Whanganui, this later returned to Whanganui. This did another return trip later in the day.

Other diversions were:

MBB Kawasaki Bk.117 ZK-IPT trying to reach Wellington as back up for MBB Kawasaki Bk.117 ZK-HLF which has gone in for Maintenance. This has stayed at Kapiti overnight.

As I type this post Air Whanganui's Beech C90A ZK-MKG is arriving from Auckland.

Goes to show how vital Kapiti is when Wellington Airport is not operational for whatever reason.