First Day of Spotting for 2025

With the trip to Westport it was an opportunity to do some plane spotting at Wellington on 3 January 2024

Fiji Airways' Boeing 737-8 MAX DQ-FAE off to Nadi

Agusta A109E ZK-IAW

Originair's British Aerospace Jetstream 32 ZK-JSJ arrives with first of the airline's two flights from Nelson

Air Chathams' ATR 72-500 ZK-MCU arriving from the Chathams

Air New Zealand's ATR 72-600s, ZK-MVG,

ZK-MVN

and ZK-MVX

Gulfstream Aerospace G650ER N6505R

Air New Zealand Bombardier Q300s ZK-NEJ,

ZK-NEM

ZK-NEP

and ZK-NES

Air New Zealand's Airbus 320s ZK-OJQ

ZK-OXG

and ZK-OXL

One I have been wanting to capture for a long time, Pelorus Air's Gippsland GA8 Airvan ZK-PEL

A desperation shot of Sounds Air's Pilatus PC12 ZK-PLB which didn't taxi to the end of the runway

Sounds Air's Cessna 208 Grand Caravan ZK-SAA

and the smaller Cessna 208 Caravan ZK-SAN

A couple of Jetstar Airbus 320s, VH-VFT

and VH-VGF

and finally Golden Bay Air's Gippsland GA8 Airvan ZK-ZUG. If we stayed there 30 minutes longer we would have got two more Airvans, ZK-YUG and Air Kaikoura's ZK-ORC but all in all a good first day of spotting for 2025