Belated New Plymouth shots.

Back on the 25th of October Tony Mcfarlin sent me the following pics taken at the New Plymouth Aero Clubs 80th anniversary over Labour weekend.

Kawasaki-Hughes 369HS c/n 6631 wearing "US" marks and in a military scheme. It is in fact ZK-IUS (minus the "I"). Built in Japan in 1974 it arrived in NZ to become ZK-HSE3 on 26-03-01 following work by Wing & Rotor after an incident it had on 23-08-00 in Japan. After serving with Sutton Moss, Frank Wright and Volcanic Air Safaris it went to Kiwi Kopters Tauranga Ltd on 31-03-08 & was re-registered as ZK-IUS on 06-05-08.
The real ZK-HUS being a Bell 206B JetRanger just a few clicks down the road with Tarata Helicopters near Inglewood.

Bell 47G-3B1 ZK-IAR2 c/n 6605 from the Precision Helicopter fleet was also on the field. Of 1967 vintage. It spent time in Canada as CF-VUB from near new (Factory reg was N7804S) until gyrating down to become VH-KHY on 07-08-1987. It joined the Kiwi register on 11-07-05 via Heliwork NZ Ltd of New Plymouth.

And an unknown Cessna 210 "ZIO".

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