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Cancelled from the New Zealand civil aircraft register yesterday as "withdrawn" was Fairchild Swearingen SA227CC Merlin 23 ZK-POE (c/n CC-843B) whose registration history is shown below.
N30228 00/08/1993 Fairchild Aircraft Corp, San Antonio, Texas
00/10/1993 Built as model SA227DC
00/11/1993 Modified to model SA227CC
13/10/1994 Registration cancelled
ZK-POE 14/10/1994 Airpost Ltd, Airwork (NZ) Ltd, Auckland
29/09/1999 Airwork (NZ) Ltd, Auckland
08/08/2003 Airwork Holdings Ltd, Auckland Airport, Auckland
08/01/2009 Airwork Flight Operations Limited, Manukau, Auckland
20/10/2017 Air Chathams Limited, Chatham Islands
Origin Pacific Airways entered a strategic alliance with Auckland-based Airwork NZ Ltd from the 31st of May 1999. This enabled Origin to utilise Airwork’s Fairchild Metroliner 23 aircraft, including ZK-POE, which was painted in Origin Pacific colours. It was primarily used at night on NZ Post mail flights but also saw passenger service.
Fairchild Metro 23 ZK-POE flew its last flight for NZ Post (Express Couriers) on Thursday the 19th of January as POST91/92 from Auckland to Palmerston North and return.
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| Fairchild Metro 23 ZK-POE at Auckland on 5 February 1995 |
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| ZK-POE with Origin Pacific Airways at Wellington on 15 October 1999 |
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| Fairchild Metro 23 ZK-POE back with Airwork at Auckland on 7 October 2014 |
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| Airwork's Fairchild Metro 23 ZK-POE at Tauranga on 19 October 2015 |
Sold to Air Chathams in October 2017 the Metro 23 never took to the air with Air Chathams.
Have we heard anything about CID ? its hasnt flown since a couple months did a engine run ment to be going to the Chathams couple days ago but that never happened would she be going to sharp airlines?
ReplyDeleteThe other SA227-CC Metro 23 ZK-POF is now registered as VH-SEF. I have seen it in person where I live in Tasmania and it still wears the basic Air Chathams livery but with titles removed.
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