Introducing ZK-SDA

 

Painted now in Barrier Air colours is the company's sixth Cessna Grand Caravan. The EX model Grand  Caravan built in 2022 and arrived into New Zealand on 31st of July 2022 before being registered locally as ZK-ROW. It was reregistered as ZK-SDA on the 1st of October 2024 and has been at Flight Care in Napier being painted in Barrier Air colours. ZK-SDA will enter service with Barrier Air in the coming weeks.

Congratulations to Barrier Air on their newest aircraft.

Barrier Air's Cessna Grand Caravan EX at Flight Care in Napier on 7 October 2024. Thanks to Barrier Air for letting me use these pics

ZK-SDA/3   Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX                                      c/n 208B5691

N932DT                          Textron Aviation Inc, Wichita, KS, USA

                  21/07/2022   Delray Air LLC, Delray Beach, FL, USA

                  31/07/2022   Arrived Auckland after ferry flight via Merced, CA, Honolulu,

                                      Pago Pago

                  10/08/2022   Registration cancelled - Exported

ZK-ROW    11/08/2022   Finbar Airways Limited, Napier

                  01/10/2024   Registration Cancelled

ZK-SDA      01/10/2024   Great Barrier Airlines Limited, Auckland Airport

Arriving in Auckland on 31 July 2022 at the end of its ferry flight from the USA, Cessna 208 Grand Caravan EX N932DT  

On the New Zealand register as ZK-ROW at Auckland on 28 April 2024