Today Hawera held their annual brunch fly-in to welcome in spring and daylight savings.
The weather was looking decent apart from strong winds, which did put off some people from coming up, but a good lot came in regardless.
Here is what I saw from the event:
Local Aircraft:
ZK-AIL De Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth
ZK-CAW EAA Acro Sport II
ZK-CJE Bolkow Junior
ZK-DOK Piper PA-30
ZK-FMP Cessna 172M
ZK-PHL Vans RV-10
ZK-TEL TRI-R KIS TR-4 Cruiser
ZK-UNB Cessna A152
Visiting Aircraft:
ZK-AZK Cessna 195
ZK-BEF De Havilland DH 82A Tiger Moth
ZK-CBM Cessna 172S
ZK-CDY Cessna 180A
ZK-CTB Cessna 150H
ZK-DKM Cessna 172M
ZK-DOD Cessna 180J
ZK-DOS Piper PA-28-140
ZK-DXL Cessna 172M
ZK-EDS Beech F33A
ZK-FGV Cessna 172M
ZK-FRS Piper PA-38-112
ZK-JDL Stoddard-Hamilton SH-2 Glasair TD
ZK-JEZ Cessna 172N
ZK-JIP Cessna 172S
ZK-JQP Sonex
ZK-JQT Zenith Zodiac CH 601-XL
ZK-JQY Maule MXT-7-180
ZK-KRD Cessna 180C
ZK-LDM Vans RV-7
ZK-OCC Cessna 170B
ZK-OFC Cessna 182R
ZK-PJM Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300
ZK-POM Vans RV-7A
ZK-PWR SPA Panther
ZK-RGV Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Scale Replica
ZK-SXR Sonex
ZK-VNZ Vans RV-6
ZK-VRV Vans RV-6
ZK-WCB Aeroprakt A-32
ZK-WLK Vans RV-8
ZK-WLL Vans RV-7
ZK-WRA Tecnam P2002-JF
ZK-YGG AutoGyro Calidus
ZK-ZRV Vans RV-8
And some photos:
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| My only new one from the event, still good to get! |
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| Always nice to hear and see a radial engine come in |
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| Don't see this one too often and it's from my neck of the woods! |
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| I do like a good Bonanza and it's nice to see this one becoming a regular in the fly-in scene. |
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| The one that came the furthest, this lovely looking RV from North Shore! |
I then travelled up the road to the Beck Helicopter pad just outside of Eltham and was nice to see a couple of helicopters outside.
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| Lovely to see this huey outside. |
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| Unsure why this jet ranger was here, but it was a new one for me, so i'll take it! |
Because of the impending weather I decided to backtrack and head to Whanganui instead of continuing to the rest of the Taranaki airfields. The local academy was in full swing at Whanganui so was quite a bit going on, here is what I saw:
Visiting Aircraft:
ZK-DUQ Piper PA-28-180
ZK-DXL Cessna 172M
ZK-MCU ATR-GIE ATR72-212A
Local Aircraft:
ZK-CAA Cessna 172S
ZK-CTQ Cessna 172S
ZK-DAV Diamond DA20-C1
ZK-HFA Airbus Helicopters AS 350 B2
ZK-HFD Schweizer 269C
ZK-JIP Cessna 172S
ZK-JMP Cessna 172S
ZK-KOL Cessna 172S
ZK-MDC Beech B200
ZK-MDK Cessna 152
ZK-NPJ Cessna 172R
ZK-TOD Cessna 152
ZK-WHC Alpi Aviation Pioneer 200
ZK-WUA Diamond DA 42
ZK-WUB Cessna 172R
ZK-WUC Cessna 172R
ZK-WUE Cessna 172R
ZK-WUI Cessna 172R
ZK-WUJ Diamond DA20-C1
ZK-YGG AutoGyro Calidus
Then I took a few photos of aircraft I don't have a photo of;
Last Stop of the day was Feilding, not much was going on, but a few hangars were open to have a look in. So here is what I saw:
ZK-SXO Air Tractor AT-602
Local Aircraft:
ZK-CTF Cessna 150H
ZK-EHP Cessna A150M
ZK-FNA Piper PA-28-181
ZK-FXG Micro Aviation B22 Bantam
ZK-KVZ Cessna U206G
ZK-LJI Piper PA-28-181
ZK-LLY Tecnam P2004 Bravo
ZK-LTU Pacific Aerospace Cresco 08-600
ZK-MSW Cal Parker Teenie Two (Not yet registered)
ZK-NEI Cessna 152
ZK-NML Cessna 182R
ZK-NWY Aviat A-1C-180
ZK-OFC Cessna 182R
ZK-PMD SPA Panther
ZK-REF American Champion 8KCAB
ZK-SLR Jabiru J230
ZK-STG TL-Ultralight TL-2000 Sting
ZK-TRD Tecnam P92 Echo
ZK-ZOT Zenair Zodiac 601
Then just the one photo:
A great day out today, even if the wind did play up more arrivals for the fly-in. I look forward to the next event of Tiger Moths gathering in 3 weeks!
