First Day of Daylight Saving

Island Aviation's BN Islander ZK-SFK arriving into North Shore on 29 September after its flight from Claris on Great Barrier Island

 

Jetting into the Chatahms

Texel Air's Boeing 737-8B5(BCF) ZK-TXE operated into the Chatham Islands today as TNZ176 / TNZ175 and being the first Boeing 737 to use the recently extended runway. 

An anonymous poster on the blog a few days ago wrote, 

Our boat has been out of action over the winter as has been well publicized in the media. However has been back plying its trade since mid July. Recently there was an issue with the Southern Tiare's Crewing Requirements. This caused a severe delay to a Island bound sailing, thus delaying all other voyages, including over to Pitt.

The flights are bringing infrastructure needed for our new wind farm, as well as other time critical supplies. Would be great to see this become a regular thing. Especially given the  Southern Tiare is very much on its last legs and we cannot keep going without basic necessities when the boat is on survey.

Nelson News

Thanks to Terry Hodges for these notes and photos from Nelson... Terry writes, 

Very interesting movement this evening (29 September 2024) was VH-UYV Aerostar departing back to SYD direct. One of my friends who works at Generation Global informs me it had a full Interior Refresh

Of other interest VH-PRZ C172 also arrived from SYD last night after nearly 12hrs! this is also getting an interior refresh, unfortunately was dark so no pics, will endeavor to get some when it departs back to SYD in a month or 2

Aerostar VH-UYV departing Nelson on 29 September 2024

As a side note, three airlines have used Aerostars on regular services in New Zealand;

Akarana Air : https://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-was-akarana-air.html

Nationwide Aviation (NP) : https://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com/2012/09/nationwide-aviation-taranakis-own.html

Buckley Air : https://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-flight-to-tokoroa-buckley-air.html

Terry also caught Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign on its first visit to Nelson today, 30 September 2024