25 years ago - 23 May 1988 - North Island Road trip - Ardmore and Auckland

When was the last time you had a day like this at Ardmore????

Grumman Widgeon ZK-CFA

Victa Airtourer ZK-CGM

MS 880B Rallye ZK-CKK

Victa Airtourer ZK-CLD

Great Barrier Airlines Piper Pa32 Cherokee 6 ZK-CNS

Piper Pa28 Cherokee 140 ZK-CNZ

Piper Pa23 Aztec ZK-CUS

Piper Pa18 Cub ZK-CYU

Piper Pa28 Cherokee 235 ZK-DBO

Another Great Barrier Airlines' Piper Pa32 Cherokee 6, ZK-DDF

Piper Pa28 Cherokee 140 ZK-DEH

Cessna 303 Crusader ZK-EXA

Cessna 172 ZK-DFX 

Piper Pa32 Cherokee 6 ZK-DIV

Piper Pa23 Aztec DQ-FEG a.k.a ZK-DJG

Cessna 177RG Cardinal ZK-DRF

Cessna 206 ZK-DRH

Ted Smith Aerostar ZK-DYW

Piper Pa28 Cherokee 140 ZK-ECY

Cessna 206 ZK-EDI

Counties Aerial Work's Fletcher ZK-EGH

Cessna 320 Skyknight ZK-EGN

Ardmore Air Charter's Cessna 172 ZK-EJQ

Cessna 172 ZK-EKF

The Auckland Aero Club's Cessna 172 ZK-ELU

Cessna 172s ZK-EOA  (above) and ZK-EOB (below)

 

Cessna 152 ZK-EOY

BAe 125-800 ZK-EUI

Ardmore Flying School's Piper Pa38 Tomahawk ZK-EVL 

Motor Holdings' Cessna 172 ZK-EXD... this machine was often used on Motor Holdings' service to Waiheke Island - http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/wings-of-gulf-waiheke-air-services.html

Piper Pa28RT-201 Turbo Arrow, ZK-FKJ

Ardmore Flying School's Piper Pa38 Tomahawk ZK-FML

Piper Pa32 Lance, ZK-FMO

Piper Pa34 Seneca ZK-FMW

Piper Pa28 Archer ZK-FOS

Grumman AA-1C Lynx ZK-FPA

Ardmore Flying School's Piper Pa38 Tomahawk ZK-FTM

Airwork NZ's Hughes 300 ZK-HIV

Hughes 500D ZK-HNS

Bell Jetranger ZK-HQT

Heli Travel's Aerospatiale Squirrel ZK-HST

Bell Jetranger ZK-HWR

Bell Jetranger ZK-HXF

Marine Helicopter's Bell Longranger ZK-HXK

Aerospatiale AS365 Dauphin ZK-HXW

Hughes 300 ZK-HZA

Aerospatiale Squirrel ZK-HZK

Partenavia ZK-LAL

Flightline's Cessna 402C, ZK-LMK

A couple of imports... Cessna 206 N7554N which became ZK-JMK

Piper Pa32 Saratoga N8355A which became ZK-FOZ

A couple of hulks.... NZ1057 restored and now flying as ZK-TVI - see it now at http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/retired-trainers-at-masterton.html

Wairarapa Airlines' Piper Pa31 Chieftain ZK-PKC - http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/wairarapa-airlines-revisited.html

Cessna 206 ZK-RPG

Retired from airline service, ex Nationwide Aviation Piper Pa31 Chieftain  ZK-SDH. To  see it in airline service  go to http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/nationwide-aviation-taranakis-own.html

Beech 58 Baron ZK-SPE

Cessna 172 ZK-TFT

Piper Pa34 Senecas ZK-TLC (above) and ZK-VAN (below)

 

The Waitemata Aero Club's Slingby Fireflies, ZK-WAE and ZK-WAF.

 

Another Piper Pa34 Seneca, ZK-WUG... now with Air Napier  - http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/air-napier-only-airline-flying-to.html

Cessna 402 ZK-ZMC

Meanwhile over at Auckland International

there was Piper Pa23 Aztec ZK-CEU

Bell Longranger ZK-HYV