NZFF

by **BigBird** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:37 pm

Had to go to Albany at lunchtime today. Coming to Constellation Drive, I spotted a low flying 737 which seemed to be headed for NZWP. Have never seen a 737 in this livery before. It had a white fuselage with a predominantly green tail and a yellow/orange section on the front of the fin. Anyone know who owns this bird or where it came from?

by **pilotgallagher01** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:32 pm

It was flying all around NZ today, came to Tauranga and did some circuits. It looked very much like the Priority Toll 737. I had a good look at it and my mates around NZ also saw it..

by **BigBird** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:40 pm

I initially thought it might be a Toll a/c.

Definitely looks like it now that I've seen a pic.

by **SA227** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:40 pm

And in fact it was ZK-TLA in the Toll livery. It was carrying out a test flight after heavy maintenance.

by **redkiwi** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:16 am

I saw it going into NZWP wheels up, it did look somewhat out of place!

by **redkiwi** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:05 pm

Saw it again this afternoon from a better angle - as SA227 is it certainly is ZK-TLA in TOLL livery...

Is it a private company aircraft?

by **cambridgedan** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:23 am

Yeap was toll, heres a pic of it

by **SA227** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:35 pm

One of 3 we have operating in Australia at the moment. It came across for scheduled maintenance. It's a little different from a standard 300 in that it has a universal avionics setup rather than the standard Boeing.

by **deeknow** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:21 pm

SA227 wrote:
QUOTE (SA227 @ Nov 7 2009, 02:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
One of 3 we have operating in Australia at the moment.

Do they ever perform trans-tasman freight duties or are they only operating domestic freight in Oz for Toll?
What about over to Norfolk Island, or other pacific regions from Oz?

update: coincidentally, looks like there was a new Toll repaint of the Wilco 737 of TLA uploaded to AVSim on Thursday (filename: 737-300_toll.zip)

by **SA227** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:23 am

Normally just freight for Toll between Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane but also charters to Cairns and the pacific islands.

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