Saturday 28 March 2009

Northern Microlight Club Flyin at Silverdale

Around 18 sport aircraft took advantage of a lovely day to attend the Northern Microlight Club's flyin at Paul Hopper's airstrip at Silvedale, which is just North of Dairy Flat. I thought the flyin would be a local event, but there were aircraft there from as far away as Kerikeri, Waihi and Hawera.

Of the aircraft that may be new to readers of the NZCivair blog, I will post the following four. The first is Foxcon Aviation Terrier 200 ZK-SOD which is owned by A K Matthews from Warkworth, and with a nice multi-hued paint job. This was first registered on 6/12/04 and was for sale for $65,000. Maybe the new owner will change the registration!
This Aerospool Dynamic WT 9 ZK-EWW was visiting from Kerikeri. It is owned by K J Slattery and was first registered on 26/8/04. It has also been retofitted with winglets (the same as ZK-DYN of an earlier post).

The Waihi Aviation Group's Aero Design's Pulsar XP ZK-KFC also flew in with 2 POB and 1 DOG (who loves flying). This is the oldest of this group having been first registered on 17/4/97.


And lastly was this local Alpi Aviation Pioneer 200 ZK-DJC which is owned by D J Clack of North Shore. In spite of it having been first registered on 3/5/06, this is the first time I have seen this aircraft.




3 comments:

  1. Good score! I didn't know that place existed. Are you able to supply a list of all aircraft present Sir Minty? I'd appreciate anything you can supply for AHSNZ Aerolog. Thanks for the pics, Mike

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  2. I didn't take down the registrations but the aircraft there were the 4 I blogged, plus Foxcon Terrier ZK-EZY, Alpi Pioneer 200 ZK-PKT, Alpi Pioneer 300 ZK-LPX, Titan Tornado ZK-RSR, Magni Gyroplane ZK-RCR, Sportcruiser ZK-CSC, Technam P96 Golf ZK-EHG, Technam P2002 Sierra RG ZK-SJS, Technam P92 Echo ZK-PAB, Zenith CH701 ZK-LOK, Challenger ZK-TPL and 2 Cessna 172's one was ZK-DES and the other one I can't remember (but you can see it partially in the background of the photo of ZK-EWW).

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  3. I didn't take down the registrations but the aircraft there were the 4 I blogged, plus Foxcon Terrier ZK-EZY, Alpi Pioneer 200 ZK-PKT, Alpi Pioneer 300 ZK-LPX, Titan Tornado ZK-RSR, Magni Gyroplane ZK-RCR, Sportcruiser ZK-CSC, Technam P96 Golf ZK-EHG, Technam P2002 Sierra RG ZK-SJS, Technam P92 Echo ZK-PAB, Zenith CH701 ZK-LOK, Challenger ZK-TPL and 2 Cessna 172's one was ZK-DES and the other one I can't remember (but you can see it partially in the background of the photo of ZK-EWW).

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