Aviation Weekend trip #2

Another beautiful day greeted me when I woke up on my second day away up in Auckland. As I said in my blog post yesterday, I was travelling down to Te Kowhai to attend the Black Sands Fly-In happening there. What I didn't mention was I managed to score a flight down in ZK-CAV (Huge thanks to Wayne and Tim for organising this!)

So first stop of the day was to Ardmore to meet up with the crew and get going to Te Kowhai. So shortly after 10am we were airborne and away, quite a bumpy ride due to the high winds, but can handle that! After a 20-minute flight we arrived at Te Kowhai.

There was a decent number of aircraft already arrived and more arrived after we did, 41 visiting aircraft in total, sadly not many of the locals came out to play.

But here is what I saw throughout my time there:

Local Aircraft:

N5JP Cessna 150G
ZK-AZL Douglas DC-3 (Gate Guardian)
ZK-BQV Piper PA-18
ZK-BTC Piper PA-18
ZK-CJP Jabiru UL-T
ZK-CKE Cooke Avian Adventurer
ZK-CUB Light Miniature LM-1U (Unregistered)
ZK-DKC Cessna 172M
ZK-DOL Vans RV-12iS
ZK-DOQ Piper PA-28
ZK-EHA Cessna 172
ZK-FDB Flight Design CTLS
ZK-JAC Jodel D.18
ZK-JCK Rand Kar Xair
ZK-LUX Tecnam P2002 Sierra
ZK-MJK Flylight Airsports Skyranger Swift 2
ZK-MKP Stoddard-Hamilton SH-3R Glasair III
ZK-PXB Aero Designs Pulsar XP
ZK-SRG Tecnam P2002 Sierra RG
ZK-TZA Robin DR400/500
ZK-ZYZ Micro Aviation Bantam

Visiting Aircraft:
ZK-BRV Vans RV-6
ZK-BWX Cessna 150
ZK-CAV Cessna 185
ZK-CJF Bolkow Junior
ZK-DES Vans RV-7
ZK-DFM Jodel D.11
ZK-DMK Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300
ZK-DRQ Cessna 172M
ZK-ESY Zenair CH 701SP
ZK-FGV Cessna 172M
ZK-LDM Vans RV-7
ZK-LED Czech Sportcruiser
ZK-MAL Ultravia Pelican Cub GS
ZK-MBY Thorp S-18
ZK-MEG Tecnam P2002 Sierra RG
ZK-PBH R & B Bearhawk
ZK-PGP Stoddard-Hamilton Glastar
ZK-PHL Vans RV-10
ZK-REX Vans RV-7A
ZK-RMR Pitts S-1 Special
ZK-RWJ Vans RV-7
ZK-SAM BRM Aero NG5
ZK-SCM Vans RV-12
ZK-SHN Vans RV-7
ZK-SJC Vans RV-6
ZK-SRY Progressive Aerodyne Searey
ZK-SST Vans RV-8
ZK-SXR Sonex
ZK-TES Tecnam P92 Echo Super
ZK-TJL Cessna 172N
ZK-TOP Thorp T-18 CW
ZK-VII Vans RV-7A
ZK-VNZ Vans RV-6
ZK-VQM Piper PA-32R
ZK-WER Alpi Aviation Pioneer 200
ZK-WGK Czech Sportcruiser
ZK-WLK Vans RV-8
ZK-WLL Vans RV-7
ZK-YGL Corby CJ-1 Starlet
ZK-ZRV Vans RV-8
ZK-ZXZ Zenair CH 601XL

Then photo highlights for me today:

Don't see many Seareys these days, so nice to see this down from North Shore

A new one for me, down from North Shore!

Also a new one for me! Lovely looking Pitts from Ardmore

My last new one for Black Sands, recently moved to Tokoroa!

Last thing i'll do for this post is what I saw at Ardmore before and after flight that were different from yesterday's trip:

Visiting Aircraft:
ZK-CBC Cessna 182T
ZK-DXG Cessna 185A
ZK-JHS Cessna 185C
ZK-TGF Piper PA-28R

Local Aircraft:
ZK-BLI De Havilland Tiger Moth
ZK-CMM Miles M.38 Messenger
ZK-CPG AESL Airtourer T6
ZK-EVD Piper PA-38
ZK-EWZ Cessna 172S
ZK-HKZ Kawasaki BK117 B-2
ZK-HMJ Bell 206L
ZK-ITC Eurocopter EC 120 B
ZK-IWP Robinson R44
ZK-JPA Piper PA-28
ZK-MDV Cessna 172N
ZK-MXS MX Aircraft MXS
ZK-OAT Cessna 172R
ZK-PSA Dyn'Aero MCR 4S
ZK-RMR Pitts S-1 Special
ZK-ROG Cessna T182
ZK-SAR Cessna 182R
ZK-SAX De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
ZK-SFK Britten-Norman BN2A
ZK-SXB Beech 77
ZK-VNX Vans RV-14
ZK-VNZ Vans RV-6
ZK-WIW Piper PA-34
ZK-WLK Vans RV-8
ZK-WLL Vans RV-7
ZK-XLT Cessna 182Q
ZK-YGL Corby CJ-1 Starlet
ZK-ZAB Cessna 172R

Plan tomorrow is probably to go to Thames for their local flying day and if that results in not much happening, go have a look at Matamata with the glider comps happening there for next week.