On the 23rd of the August 2025 ex Mount Cook Airline Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter ZK-MCK flew on export to Jump Aviation Pty Ltd, Australia as VH-XAA to be used as a skydiving platform with Skyone Moruya at Moruya, New South Wales.
Yesterday afternoon it took off with eight skydivers and one pilot on board. After all eight occupants jumped out, the pilot was returning to base when the airplane crashed 2 km north of the airfield. The pilot was killed and the aeroplane was destroyed.
ZK-MCK Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2
Turbo Porter c/n 809
HB-FHO 19/08/1980 Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG, Stans, Switzerland
22/01/1982 Registration cancelled
ZK-MCK 26/01/1982 The
Mount Cook Group Ltd, Christchurch
29/11/1986 First flight following modification to
model PC-6/B2-H4
18/02/1987 Mount Cook Airline Ltd, Christchurch
01/07/1998 Tourism Holdings Ltd, Queenstown
20/12/2002 Aoraki Mount Cook Ski Planes Ltd, Mount
Cook
01/05/2012 Skydive Franz Josef Ltd, Franz Josef
Glacier
26/09/2018 Inflite Ski Planes Limited, Auckland
15/08/2025 Registration cancelled - Exported
VH-XAA 15/08/2025 Jump
Aviation Pty Ltd, Moruya NSW, AUSTRALIA
22/08/2025 Timaru-Auckland on export
23/08/2025 Having depart Timaru for Auckland on the 22nd
it flew
Auckland-Norfolk
Island-Gold Coast on the 23rd and on to
Dubbo
on the 24th.
27/09/2025 Crashed Moruya NSW with pilot killed and
plane destroyed
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| Pilatus Porter ZK-MCK at Franz Josef on 21 September 1982 |
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| Pilatus Porter ZK-MCK surrounded by flood waters at Franz Josef's Mercer Airport on 28 December 1989. Photo : M Thomas |
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| Pilatus Porter ZK-MCK with a modified tail scheme at Mount Cook on the 19 September 1987 |
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| At Franz Josef again, now as a skydiving platform, Skydive Franz's Pilatus Porter ZK-MCK on 27 May 2017 |
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| After a stint back on skis ZK-MCK wears a Mount Cook Skiplane and Helicopters logo as seen here doing skydiving duties at Motueka on 23 January 2023. Photo : M Beaven. |
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