Sunday, October 1, 2023

Flat Hills BBQ Lunch Fly-in 2023

 After the success of last year's Flat Hills fly-in, the Wanganui Aero Club team decided to put on another BBQ Lunch Fly-In and today was the day of the event.

Sadly, the weather wasn't playing ball and it was mostly overcast and strong winds most likely put off a lot of people from going.

But nonetheless 18 aircraft did fly in for the event and since nothing lives at the Flat Hills strip, here are all the aircraft that were around:

ZK-BEF De Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth
ZK-CFT Sud-Aviation Gardan GY80-150
ZK-CTF Cessna 150H
ZK-DKM Cessna 172M
ZK-DXL Cessna 172M
ZK-EBR Sky Arrow 480T
ZK-EMK Cessna 180K
ZK-FRS Piper PA-38-112
ZK-JDL Stoddard-Hamilton SH-2 Glasair TD
ZK-JIP Cessna 172S
ZK-JSG Cessna 172M
ZK-KMC Cessna 172M
ZK-LDW Cessna T182T
ZK-MMC X-Air Hanuman
ZK-OFC Cessna 182R
ZK-SKO Sky Arrow 480T
ZK-THK Tim Bygate Tiger Hawk
ZK-VQM Piper PA-32R-301T

And a few pictures from today:


A very nice surprise to come over from Nelson, I love this Saratoga!

Nice to see this Gardan Horizon after quite a while.

My first time getting a photo of this Feilding local, very nice scheme!

On the way home, decided to pop in to Feilding to see if anything was around. Sadly it was mainly just those at the Flat Hills fly-in returning home, but there was a few other aircraft seen

Here is what I saw:

Visiting Aircraft
ZK-CFT Sud-Aviation Gardan GY80-150
ZK-DGL Piper PA-28-180
ZK-MAA Air Tractor AT-502B

Local Aircraft:
ZK-DBG Titan T51 Mustang
ZK-DXL Cessna 172M
ZK-EBR Sky Arrow 480T
ZK-FSM Hovey Delta Hawk
ZK-JSG Cessna 172M
ZK-OFC Cessna 182R
ZK-SKO Sky Arrow 480T
ZK-TFB Dyn'Aero MCR ULC
ZK-THK Tim Bygate Tiger Hawk
ZK-USK Aviat A-1C-180

Last stop of the day was Palmerston North, not much outside, but there was one nice aircraft down visiting from Ardmore, Cessna 182E ZK-WKK, used regularly for banner towing.



Next Sunday is Tokoroa's annual fly-in, so hoping to go to that, although weather currently isn't looking promising.

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