A superb spotting day at Kerikeri

A late need for a meeting meant a flying trip to Kerikeri on 8 November 2024... and even better it was an airport meeting. So there was a lot of time to plane spot before and after the meeting and in between my Barrier Air flights while doing other work as well but all in all making it my best ever day of plane spotting at Kerikeri

Northland Coastguard's Cessna 182 ZK-CGD

Bay of Islands Aero Club Aeroprakt A-32 Vixxen ZK-CHE

The worst photo of the day, Inflite's Bell 427 ZK-IRP is very hard to photograph given its black scheme and bright sky behind

Salt Air's Robinson R44 ZK-IWT made a quick visit

Tandem Skydiving's Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ZK-JMP did a jump flight

Salt Air's Gippsland GA-8 Airvan ZK-MAB left for Cape Reinga just after I arrived and then arrived back just before I departed

I was delighted to get Merlin Labs' Cessna 206 ZK-MLP at last

Air New Zealand had a couple of Bombardier Q300 flights in and out during the afternoon operated by ZK-NEA...

(Given the Q300s recent reputation of being out of the air a lot lately...)

...and ZK-NEK

Another good score was Beech 58 Baron ZK-OSL

Locally based Tecnam P2008 ZK-RJN

And operating both my Barrier Air flights was Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ZK-SDD