Auckland Trip Part 2

 Today was the day of Warbirds on Parade at Ardmore. Woke up to see the weather was cloudy, so was hoping it would stay like that at the very worst. For most of the day it did just that.

So after grabbing breakfast, I drove over to Ardmore and got myself in, took note of what was around, caught up with a couple of spotter friends and then settled in to a nice spot for the days displays.

2/3 of the show went a head as planned, the 3rd and last segment was cancelled due to heavy rain coming in, so the event was cut short by about 2 hours. Despite this, it was a fantastic day and well worth the drive up yesterday.

Instead of my usual list of every aircraft, I will do only those on display and then some highlights of aircraft outside of it:

Display Aircraft:
NZ1403 Beech T-6C Texan II
NZ3618 Kaman SH-2G Seasprite
NZ6208 McDonnell Douglas A-4K (Unregistered)
NZ6471 Aermacchi MB-339CB (Unregistered)
WT346 English Electric Canberra B.2 (Unregistered, marked up as "NZ6102")
ZK-ARS Albatross D.Va replica
ZK-BKW Piper PA-18
ZK-BLI De Havilland Tiger Moth
ZK-BOE Boeing Stearman
ZK-BTL Bristol Scout D replica
ZK-CAG Curtiss P-40N
ZK-CMM Miles M.38 Messenger
ZK-CPG AESL Airtourer T6
ZK-DAK Douglas DC-3C
ZK-DGY Pacific Aerospace Airtrainer
ZK-DPP Percival Proctor I
ZK-EAM Diamond DA.42
ZK-ENE North American Harvard
ZK-ENG North American Harvard
ZK-ENJ North American Harvard
ZK-EZG Dan Rihn DR.107 One Design
ZK-FKD Fokker Dr.1 Triplane replica
ZK-GNW Grob G.109
ZK-IPC Bell 429
ZK-JJA North American Harvard
ZK-MJN North American Harvard
ZK-POL Polikarpov Po-2
ZK-PRK Bristol Fighter F2B replica
ZK-SAR Cessna 182T
ZK-SAX DHC 1 Chipmunk
ZK-SSW Siemens-Schuckert D-IV replica
ZK-TAF North American Mustang
ZK-TVI North American Harvard
ZK-VCM The Vintage Aviator BE2e-1
ZK-VNM De Havilland Venom
ZK-WAR North American Harvard
ZK-WDQ Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX
ZK-WLM Aero L-39
ZK-XLX Extra EA 300/LC
ZK-XXS Yakovlev Yak-52
ZK-YIK Yakovlev Yak-52

Visiting Aircraft:
ZK-BTC Piper PA-18
ZK-CVI Nanchang CJ-6
ZK-EFB Cessna A185F
ZK-IPB Bell 429
ZK-UFS Piper PA-28
ZK-VHC Aeroprakt A32 (Possible new resident)
ZK-WIT Piper PA-28
ZK-XXI AESL Airtourer T3A
ZK-YAC Yakovlev Yak-52

Local Aircraft:
ZK-CBF Cessna A185F
ZK-COP Piper PA-38
ZK-DNE Piper PA-28
ZK-IBN Bell 206L-4
ZK-IZB Agusta AW169
ZK-MBY Thorp S-18

I took plenty of pictures, so is a handful of my favourite ones!

All 6 WW1 Aircraft based at Ardmore up at once! A truly awesome sight!

ZK-PRK being wing walked back in

ZK-FKD taxiing back in

ZK-SSW taxiing back in

ZK-ARS taxiing back in

ZK-WAR putting on the smoke whilst taxiing back in

ZK-DAK getting airborne for a local joy flight

ZK-IPB "Police 2" doing a quick fly down the runway before vacating

ZK-WDQ taxiing out for her display

ZK-VNM getting airborne for her display

ZK-XLX putting on the smoke whilst getting airborne

5x Harvards doing their famous roaring 40s display

NZ3618 sitting on display

Tomorrow is the trip home. Weather isn't looking very good, so may not be much to blog about if at all, will have to see!